As a German I wonder why was this treasure given away to a US museum? Also what is the legal status of ownership of all this? Would have been interesting to read more about this.
My main complaint with conventional commits always was that they don't include an issue number in the commit title. It's not even mentioned in their standards as optional or something.
To me this is almost the most important information in a commit message. I don't know how often in the last 15 years I was cross checking the issue description referenced by some old commit to get the full context of a change. I also felt that this habit is kind of standard - until i had to learn about "conventional commits".
I disagree. That's exactly the point: If you practice to achieve a constant typing rate (and start slow!) there will be no hard combinations anymore.
In fact it's exactly because of these "hard combinations" why your overall speed is slow, because you can't keep the high pace of the rest. So you have to master them first.
It's pretty much the same if you e.g. learn guitar: If you play a scale of notes you want to play it nice and smooth and not suddenly slow down at the hard part. If you can't play it smooth you're practicing to fast, so slow down until you mastered it.
I can only tell how we were taught 10 finger typing, some 30 years ago:
Don't aim for speed! Aim for typing without errors and - more importantly -
a constant rhythm. Music helps. Start extremely slow and spell out each word letter by letter in your mind.
You should find many exercises out there for how to get started with all fingers. But the key is really to slow things down. It's very much like learning an instrument.
If you keep practicing this say 10-20 minutes per day you'll soon see progress. Speed then comes very naturally and without much effort.