[alwayslikethis]

I learned colemak a long time ago, and progressed just like you, except I didn't try to retain qwerty speed. I figured I can look at the key legends anyways. I initially reached about 50-60 wpm but after that the speed still seems to progress slowly. Now after several years I can type about 100 wpm which I was never able to on qwerty, and I didn't do any significant practice on typing speed.