Forced touch-typing really is a useful learning mechanism. I have this experience, and I notice it seems to be true for most people: I know most common keys, bu

Forced touch-typing really is a useful learning mechanism. I have this experience, and I notice it seems to be true for most people: I know most common keys, but am not aware of the positions of less-common ones even if they are more important. I always look down, for example, when I type a backtick (`) - probably in part because it's in different places on the keyboards on my two laptops and on my own Happy Hacking II (which I love dearly.) "Stop looking at it" isn't as intuitive or simple as it sounds; in practice, I have a feeling pretty much all of us look at the keyboard sometimes, even if we don't realize it.