I never formally learned how to type. I had no clue what "home row" meant or where you're supposed to keep your fingers at any point in time. However, I do tou

I never formally learned how to type. I had no clue what "home row" meant or where you're supposed to keep your fingers at any point in time. However, I do touch type -- I never look at the keyboard while typing, even for symbols used when programming and I use almost all my fingers, except perhaps my left thumb, it stays on the space bar but I always use my right one for that. And I just tried an online typing test. When I strive for 100% accuracy, ie, I go back to fix mistakes when I notice I made a typo I got 75WPM. Also, I usually type faster than I do when taking these tests because the slowdown for me is in reading not typing because many of them have nonsensical texts(not as bad as "Green ideas sleep furiously" but nonetheless, probably something I wouldn't write naturally). I also don't even remember going through a "hunt and peck" phase when typing. I thought this was natural and all people who use the keyboard a lot evolve into something like this naturally. Edit: I just looked at the definitions for some of these things and which keys you're supposed to hit with which fingers and I noticed that I usually keep the keyboard slightly to the left side so that my right hand is at an angle, not straight. So instead of splitting things vertically between my fingers on the right side it's a bit different. For example I hit the "Y" key with my middle finger and I move my entire hand down to hit the "," with my index. So it's definitely suboptimal but it's good enough for me.