[chrisnight]

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t really see the advantage myself for touch typing. My current style of typing already reaches me 110+wpm, and it feels natural without any wrist problems, and I also can type fine without looking at the keyboard. (Perhaps the lack of wrist problems part is because of young age, but I’ve been typing for over 10 years)

When I tried out Dvorak, I learned touch typing for Dvorak, but after a while, it started hurting from having my hands in the touch typing position, so I decided it wasn’t really worth it to continue, since the point would’ve been to reduce injury.

The way that I type is a combination of knowing where keys are, having a muscle memory of common words, and knowing how to effectively flow between them.

It seems to me though that many of the advantages of touch typing, I already have gotten without it, so it doesn’t seem to be worth it?

[Izkata]

> and I also can type fine without looking at the keyboard.

You are touch typing. You're just not home-row touch-typing.

I don't do it that way either, developed my own style playing multiplayer StarCraft in the late 90s/early 2000s. Home row has always felt awkward, I have small hands and have to twist my wrists to reach keys when trying it. Instead my hands mostly hover with fingertips constantly in contact, and I'm using my elbows and shoulders for coarse movements across the keyboard. I have occasionally gotten comments about how weird it looks, from people who only know home-row touch-typing.

It's just that home-row is usually the only thing taught so most people think it's the only style of touch typing.

[kstrauser]

Same for me. Huh, I'd never corrolated that with hand size, but that's plausible.

For me, I took piano lessons long before I ever touched a typewriter or computer keyboard. With piano, you have to move your entire hand to get to where the keys physically are. I guess it never occurred to me to keep my hands in one place on a computer keyboard.

[tempaccount420]

Agreed, Touch Typing is probably worse than what you develop naturally once you get to the 100+ WPM mark. I guess Touch Typing is just the simplest, easiest method to codify and teach.