<p>Yeah, I use touchtyping. Mandatory course in elementary/middle school that I didn't want to take, but it's certainly paid off. I can type 80-100 WPM.</p>
<p>I think that for those that learn by punching index fingers, they develop their own system almost out of necessity. Obviously poking at 20 WPM isn't going to get you very far, especially in this technological age. I think it's pretty cool to see someone who has invented their own method of typing :)</p>
<p>Lulz... secretaries only have to type at 60 wpm? I typed at 80 wpm when I was in fifth grade. My average now is around 130 wpm, high 190, maybe 120 on a bad day.</p>
<p>At my internship, I was given the task of interviewing new potential IT hires ; one woman I interviewed - her resume said that she typed 30WPM and knew how to use Windows XP. </p>
<p>Mind you, this wasn't a secretarial position. If I typed 30WPM, that's not something I'd put on my resume...</p>
<p>I've never been taught to type, but I can mostly type without looking at the keyboard. I'm usually ~50 WPM. I just got 65 on the Facebook game, which is apparently 68th percentile.</p>
<p>yeah required course in middle school and freshman year-can type around 60 wpm, can't seem to go any faster w/out messing up too much for it to be worthwhle, im a touchtyper who knows where all the keys are but messes up anyway and my favorite key is the backspace</p>
<p>typing was probably the most important class I took growing up. I'm still amazed that my fingers just fly around without my even thinking about it and they are accurate. Kind of fascinating muscle memory at work.</p>
<p>A teacher told me his middle school stopped teaching typing because kids are growing up with typing so young that they have taught themselves in all sorts of strange ways. </p>
<p>I guess I'm old school, but I just can't imagine kids are teaching themselves to type as fast and efficiently without looking as those who learned touch typing.</p>