> I noticed that lots of skilled and professional engineers never learned to touch type. That discovery itself was odd to me: why would a professional programme

> I noticed that lots of skilled and professional engineers never learned to touch type. That discovery itself was odd to me: why would a professional programmer not want to invest the time to learn to type properly: typing fast boosts your productivity significantly. But they do. This is a false dilemma. Plenty of us type quickly without hunting and pecking, or looking at the keyboard, without home-row touch typing. This comment was typed as such. There isn't anything "proper" about home row style touch typing, it is merely one of multiple ways to type fast.