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Then I took a class called "One Hour to Touch Type" from the University of Washington's Experimental College. I actually learned the entire keyboard in about an hour. I practiced about 20 minutes per day for a month to become proficient.
My father gave me a computer in 1992 when I was 4 (why?) so I began typing long before I knew there was a proper way. Neither of my parents were ever good at typing, and still use hunt-and-peck even today. I remember when I was young, maybe 6 or 7 showing my uncle that I could type without having to look at the keys, and while I use all 10 fingers, my hand position is nowhere near the typical touch-typing one. Usuall…
Touch typing doesn't really take into account key-modifiers like shift / alt / ctrl, tab, f-keys, insert / delete or even home / end / pageup / pagedown which all come up very often during coding or doing stuff in the commandline or in your favourite editor.
I was thinking you were asking if we could type on a touch screen :-)
Another interesting question would be, who has learned NEO or Dvorak layouts and actively use them.
I tried Colemak recently, but my grey cells are brittle and I couldn't make the leap. Not due to any problem with Colemak, but with me I think.
I didn't learn to really hammer out the words until I started dialing into the local collage modem pool to play muds.