The thing is it's easy to comfortably type, say, 60 words per minute if you use a computer a lot and care. When I learned to type I could do 20 or 30 or somethi

The thing is it's easy to comfortably type, say, 60 words per minute if you use a computer a lot and care. When I learned to type I could do 20 or 30 or something, but when I found chat programs my max speed went over 100 after a few years. As long as you have any reason to be typing a lot, your speed should increase to the point where you're "fast" and don't care anymore. Sure the benefit of typing 80 wpm instead of 60 is not that much. But the cost isn't much either, it happens naturally for heavy computer users. If you're not typing reasonably fast, one has to wonder: why not? No doubt a few people will have some good reason why not, or just say "I'm new to computers". But others will have a dumb reason. Others won't have ever thought about it. So you can learn about people by asking this. It's kind of like: any serious programmer should learn a decent text editor. Yes you can code in a crappy one. Yes most of the time is spent thinking not text editing. But if you aren't using good tools one has to wonder: why not?