I'm on 27 years without any wrist problems which I attribute to my typing style. I am self-taught and don't use any known position like home row. My fingers don

I'm on 27 years without any wrist problems which I attribute to my typing style. I am self-taught and don't use any known position like home row. My fingers don't have designated keys, instead choosing a finger depending on which is closest or which fingers are best suited to do a combination of keys or a pattern. My elbows are usually outside so that my wrists are not normally bent on the side and lay straight, think < > but not so extreme. If possible I keep my seat high so that my arms are in a downward slope so that my wrists are not bent upwards. It's harder to do this when using a laptop w/o an external kb. Home row puts incredible strain on wrists and find it to be a horrible way to teach people to type. Similar to when they teach you to learn piano, the elbow positioning is important to reduce wrist pain. Since he talks about wpm, I'll elaborate on mine. When I was 13 my keyboarding class instructor in 7th grade tried to force me to learn home row, but was nice enough to make a deal that if I could beat him in a typing test I could type my way. I scored a 96 versus his 88 and won. In my 20s I was in the low 150s on my best days in a DOS-based typing software. I have an official 136 wpm score with 95% accuracy at our state job agency back in the early 2000s, they said their highest recorded, which included tests with paragraphs in nothing but symbols. I know the method works but I haven't figured out a reliable way to teach it to others and I don't know if it works for short fingers or if shorter fingers would possibly make it work better.