I had a 1 year course of typing in 1st grade secondary school (12y old). At the time (1994) we used mechanical typewriters and a cloth keyboard cover. We did pa

I had a 1 year course of typing in 1st grade secondary school (12y old). At the time (1994) we used mechanical typewriters and a cloth keyboard cover. We did pages of typing and if you got 1 char wrong you had to repeat the full page. At that same time i was programming games in Basic and C, so i knew i was going to benefit from it (the majority of kids thought it was a girls' class... this being an all male school). Fast forward 30 years i am a happy 100wpm typist. And when I see programmers struggling to find keys I just wonder how more productive they would be if they didn't have to think about it.