120+ WPM with homerow mods? Is anyone actually doing this reliably?
Question for the fast typists here:
Is anyone actually typing 120+ WPM with homerow mods on a Corne, Sofle, or similar board, especially with occasional uppercase letters and umlauts like in German?
On a regular keyboard I do 120 WPM at about 95% accuracy.
On my Corne/Sofle I am more around 100 WPM max, and accuracy drops a lot, maybe to 80%.
I really like homerow mods in principle. Shift on F and J is great. But when I type fast, it feels like the firmware cannot always decide correctly whether I meant the letter or the modifier.
What makes it worse is that I also do not want to wait for the modifier to kick in. That is why my Vial settings are pretty aggressive. But that seems to create the exact tradeoff you would expect: either I add delay and it feels slow, or I keep it fast and get occasional accidental mod activations / combos.
Current Vial settings:
- Tapping Term 145
- Permissive Hold on
- Hold On Other Key Press on
- Retro Tapping off
- Quick Tap Term 90
- Tap Code Delay 0
- Tap Hold Caps Delay 80
- Tapping Toggle 5
- Chordal Hold on
- Flow Tap 0
I also tried increasing Flow Tap, but that felt terrible because it slowed things down too much for me.
So I am wondering:
- is this just bad tuning
- is it mostly a practice issue
- or do homerow mods simply become unreliable once you get into higher typing speeds
I have a bit the impression that most people in these communities here are content with around 100wpm.
Would love to hear from people who actually got this working long term.