u/SnooSongs5410

I am trying to make the transition to moving more fingers on purpose at the same time with intention.

I am starting to be able to do it in home row keystroke drills, inward rolls, and the occasional syllable or word that I have hard wired into my hands but I have not figured out how to do it slowly and with intention.. I get lucky occasionally but when I do I usually stumble and fall on my face immediately after I perform my little dance.. i.e. Practice the specific skill of one finger typing , one finger returning to home row, one finger heading to the next key all at the same time.

Does anyone have drills they like for this that provide bang for the buck?

The idea with this short set of drills is not so much speed as getting three finger moving at once; one hitting , one releasing, one moving while maintaining home row position.

I am currently averaging around 72wpm with daily highs in the low 80s.
A little daily hand stretching and some basic home row drills moved me from a long plateau at 65. I am sure I can stabilize in the low 80s without learning independent finger movement but it will not feel relaxed and easy. If I can get past the one finger at a time typing I believe that this can make mid 80s feel like a normal speed. Or at least I hope so.

Colemak-DH layout for reference:
adapt to your layout as needed.

Top: Q W F P B | J L U Y ;

Home: A R S T G | M N E I O

Bottom: Z X C D V | K H , . /

Three-Phase Pipeline Sequences

Three simultaneous phases across all fingers:

One finger striking

One finger releasing

One finger traveling

Applied through three stages: sequential → release-overlap → strike-overlap.

Full home row sweeps — all eight fingers:

a-r-s-t-g-m-n-e-i-o

o-i-e-n-m-g-t-s-r-a

Cross-hand interleaved — pairs opposite fingers, maximizing pipeline demand:

a-o-r-i-s-e-t-n

n-t-e-s-i-r-o-a

Top row — all eight fingers:

q-w-f-p-b-j-l-u-y-;

;-y-u-l-j-b-p-f-w-q

Top row cross-hand interleaved:

q-;-w-y-f-u-p-l

l-p-u-f-y-w-;-q

Bottom row — all eight fingers:

z-x-c-d-v-k-h-,-.-/

/-.-,-h-k-v-d-c-x-z

Mixed rows — largest travel arcs, highest pipeline demand:

q-o-w-i-f-e-p-n (top left, home right)

a-;-r-y-s-u-t-l (home left, top right)

z-o-x-i-c-e-d-n (bottom left, home right)

a-/-r-.-s-,-t-h (home left, bottom right)

Chain each as a continuous loop. The mixed-row sequences are the hardest — they force the largest simultaneous travel arcs across both hands while maintaining the three-phase pipeline throughout.

I have been habitually lazy and turned my subtraction into addition to avoid learning the skill smoothly. I am long overdue to get it over with and beat subtraction into my submission.

How have you approached nailing simple subtraction and complements to get it to be a natural part of your mental process?

I have been consciously doing subtraction rather than reaching for another tool when it comes up and this is the obvious first step but I would like to get it hard wired.

My standing desks minimum height i a good 6 inches to high.
I am getting ready to break out out the angle grinder and start cutting this pos down so that I can lower my seat height. I currently perching my feet on the legs of the chair to get the correct height and am getting very tired of the shit position.

Been using arch for the last year or so and it has been a great platform.
BUT, I have littered it with infinite garbage along the way. Installing everything and anything that interested me. I can do a clean install of arch and just start again, reinstall all the things, and configure it along the way but had I started with nix last time I feel like I would be saving myself a lot of work.

What are the downsides of nix that I should consider before committing to a new recipe based package manager?