> There's a golden window for touch-typing where most people in the U.S. grew up typing on computers constantly (especially IMing in multiple windows concurrent

> There's a golden window for touch-typing where most people in the U.S. grew up typing on computers constantly (especially IMing in multiple windows concurrently) and before smartphones arrived. It's nearly impossible to keep up with multiple IM windows without lots of typing and spelling errors unless you're at least close to touch-typing. Yep. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught me proper form. Fast-scrolling Internet chat rooms and FPS chat functionality taught me speed. In the former you had to be fast to get a word in, and quite fast if you wanted a complete thought. In the latter you were risking "death" every time you typed a message, so had better be fast about it. I went from proper-but-slow to proper-and-fast in no time, once I discovered those motivations.