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You don't. Seriously. The point of an ergonomic keyboard is to touch-type. You won't learn to do that if you look at your keyboard.
Print your keyboard layout on a sheet of paper, and hang it next to your monitor. Now when you want to type a character, look it up on your sheet, and without looking at your fingers, type it. Try to remember the position like "left index finger, two lines above the rest line".
oh wow another colemak-dh user
but I'd avoid converting until you're able to touch-type. then you can show off to everyone w/ your weird-looking keyboard layout lol
I have also switched to Colemak and my advice is to just not do that. Just learn Colemak without looking at the keyboard, it'll make you a better typist anyway and you can get comfortable with it within a few weeks. In particular you don't want to move the little knobs on the index finger keys (F and J).
I learned Dvorak. It was a painful four months going from chicken pecking a few words per minute to touch-typing. I would echo this advice. DO NOT pop the keys off and replace them. There are too many things baked into the BIOS or when you reinstall the OS, and you need to find the right key on a QWERTY layout.
I know it's painful, but learn to type without looking at the keyboard. Print off a paper guide and place it below the monitor, and reference THAT when key hunting. Being able to touch-type is a serious superpower you will thank yourself for learning in the future.