When my fingers hurt after too much time on the keyboard, I...

...never let that happen

Hey. Sorry for writing back this late. Registered my account under a burner email account so I didn't get a notification.

Looks like the keybr site has changed a bit since I used it. I approached the site quite simply - just plowed through with colemak until the site gave me an all-green for all the characters. So I can't quite tell where I stopped as far as n-grams are concerned.

Other related but random thoughts since you appear to be trying to improve your speed - I have a rather orthodox style of typing. Apart from the top number row, I tend to hit my keys with the fingers that "standard" typists would tell you to. After seeing Sean Wrona's style and a friend's speedy typing (QWERTY) though, I realised that unorthodox styles seem correlated with higher speeds. They work freely with how their fingers have a feel for the keyboard and it pays off for them.

Happened to see your comment randomly and I'm reminded of the site: www.keybr.com

Give it a shot! It teaches you exactly what you were referring to - combos.

What really helped me improve my typing speed is...
practice accuracy rater than speed.

I read that the next step would be to hit some combos with the fingers that you should't type them with if it is way faster for instance "tre" typed by placing pointer finger on T an follow with the fingers as they are without moving them until the combo is done.

When my fingers hurt after too much time on the keyboard, I...
This never happens as I am using a Realforce 87u variable weight ;)