I agree. For very many years I had been typing with two fingers. It did not really hurt my productivity, as the major part of programming is thinking about wha

I agree. For very many years I had been typing with two fingers. It did not really hurt my productivity, as the major part of programming is thinking about what to write, not the actual typing. I had tried several times to switch to touch typing, but I had given up every time. The reason was that in the initial phase of the transition I was typing much slower than before and I had not enough patience, so whenever I was in a hurry I would switch back to two-finger typing. The method by which I have eventually succeeded to switch to touch typing has been by simultaneously switching to a Dvorak keyboard layout. This had three advantages, the Dvorak layout is more comfortable, whenever I was losing patience due to the slowness of the typing there was no easy way to switch back to the two-finger typing to which I was accustomed, and looking at the keyboard was pointless due to the lack of matching labels on keys, so pure touch typing was mandatory. The transition was very annoying during the first few days, but after a few weeks I have recovered the previous typing speed, then I have exceeded it significantly. Nevertheless, the increased typing speed has been only a very minor advantage. The real advantage has been the much less effort required for typing long texts all day by touch typing instead of hunt-and-peck, especially when also using the Dvorak layout instead of Qwerty.