Interesting! Unless I'm totally wrong, it isn't mandatory in the UK at least, and I hardly know anyone who can touch-type properly here, relatively few people

Interesting! Unless I'm totally wrong, it isn't mandatory in the UK at least, and I hardly know anyone who can touch-type properly here, relatively few people who can type fast and accurately, and almost no one outside of tech who can type without looking at the keyboard. I was forced to learn to touch-type properly by an older sibling when I was about 8; a quarter of a century or so later, I never look at the keyboard and can do ~120wpm if I put my mind to it (some keyboards are better than others, admittedly), though I feel like my accuracy isn't perhaps what it once was (maybe due to less practice? I spend more time talking to clients and less time typing these days...). Get 'em while they're young, I say.