Just a short term thing. You asked your fingers to think twice before typing. They are giving you opportunity to rewire muscle memory. Once you are done learning they will go back to normal.

Yeah, I use my Mac’s keyboard often enough without issue. Just takes some time as you are developing that new ergo memory.

If you stick with it you’ll make steady consistent progress. One thing that really helped me was tracking my progress with monkeytype.com - it might not feel like you’re getting better but seeing how closely correlated practice and improvement are really kept me motivated to stick with it.

I haven’t lost the ability to type as I previously did, though I do find myself resenting being forced to use laptop keyboards. I can do like 60wpm hunt and peck on a row staggered keyboard, and a bit more touch typing on an ortho/ergo/split, but I can’t touch type on a row staggered kb and I can’t hunt and peck on an ortho/ergo/split, haha

I can consistently switch between Ortho and my laptop, hitting nearly 70WPM on both. I would say it took about a month before something clicked in my brain and I stopped trying to use my thumbs for mods on my laptop and miss hitting the key locations. Just give it more time. Your muscles can remember a ton of different things, brain just needs to figure out how to organize it.

While I still needed to think about the split ortho layout I struggled a bit going back and forth, but once I got fluent with split ortho I stopped having issues switching between them. It’s just a learning curve, you will very likely get past it.

I work on standard 104 key keyboards for my day job, but run an Iris Plus with custom keymap at home. I found that during the period that I was learning the Iris, my ability to type on a regular keyboard diminished slightly. I attribute this to the fact that for the first time in years I regularly had to think about what I was typing because I was learning a new layout. Once I pretty much had the layout memorized, I had no problem whatsoever switching back and forth.

It might have also helped that I wasn’t typing exclusively on the ergo, so it may benefit you to practice on a standard layout every so often if you are concerned about slowing down.

I use a QWERTY layout on my moonlander and I don’t have any problems switching between it and my laptop. As others have said, it can take me a minute or two for the muscle memory to come back, but then I’m fine afteer that.

My only issue is that I purposefully removed CAPS LOCK from my moonlander and I keep accidentally hitting it instead of TAB on my laptop. But that’s a me issue and not a huge problem.

No worries, I routinely swap between my 34 key weirdo keyboard and my laptop without any trouble.

One thing that you might find helpful is to get some really unique keycaps on the ergo board so it feels different. I had MT3 keycaps on my ergo board while I was learning it, although that being said, now I’ve switched to choc switches with essentially laptop keycaps, and I can still type on my laptop just fine.

I‘m typing with 50WPM on a Moonlander with Colemak-DH Layout and still can type on a QWERTY MacBook keyboard with my usual 70-80WPM

During the initial leaning phase, switching is hard. From my experience it’ll be easier once you are able to type subconsciously on the Moonlander as well.

Speaking from personal experience here, your mileage may vary.

I haven’t personally tried, but I have heard a lot of people say that switching between isn’t too bad. It can take a minute or two for the memories to come back though.

I’ve also heard that using different keymap layouts (ie, QWERTY vs COLEMARK) on different physical layouts. QWERTY for typical rowstag, COLEMARK for ergo.