diff --git a/.github/workflows/nodejs.yml b/.github/workflows/nodejs.yml
index 9caf8a1c..6e70cd7f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nodejs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nodejs.yml
@@ -101,11 +101,11 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         include:
-          - node-version: 18.x   # fastest, so run first, to error fast
+          - node-version: 20.x   # fastest, so run first, to error fast
             os: ubuntu-latest
-          - node-version: 18.x   # slowest, so run next. sort by slowest from here to get earliest end through parallelism
+          - node-version: 20.x   # slowest, so run next. sort by slowest from here to get earliest end through parallelism
             os: macos-latest
-          - node-version: 18.x   # finish check big-3 on latest current
+          - node-version: 20.x   # finish check big-3 on latest current
             os: windows-latest
           - node-version: 11.x   # lastly check just ubuntu on historic node versions because speed, oldest (slowest) first
             os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ jobs:
             os: ubuntu-latest
           - node-version: 17.x
             os: ubuntu-latest
+          - node-version: 18.x
+            os: ubuntu-latest
+          - node-version: 19.x
+            os: ubuntu-latest
 
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}