I took a typing class when I was 8 -- but I don't know that I really learned to touch type from that, though. Maybe it helped me feel comfortable with keyboard

I took a typing class when I was 8 -- but I don't know that I really learned to touch type from that, though. Maybe it helped me feel comfortable with keyboards, but I don't think I attained the rigorous discipline of touch typing - it was just too easy to look at the keys. But I had a little book of typing exercises that I came back to in 8th grade. (And then in 9th grade my high school offered a one-year class, and I ended up with the fastest typing speed in the class.) Looking back, I'd say that it's easy to learn to touch-type if you're motivated and want to -- and can stick with practicing for a long-enough period that it sinks in. At some point it becomes self-reinforcing -- because you can touch-type, you start typing letters to your friends and papers for school...which gives you all the practice you need.