I wrote this in 2013 and I can't stop thinking about it given all the things happening in our industry today.

Why programmers should learn to touch type (and it's not for the obvious reason).

https://stevefenton.co.uk/blog/2013/04/why-programmers-should-learn-to-touch-type/

Why programmers should learn to touch type

@stevefenton QWERTY blind typing on normal keyboards is never going to happen for me. Fast typing sure, but turn off the light in the room and the backlight and I can no longer enter the root password. Learning to type from scratch COLEMAK-DH on a split keyboard allowed me to blind type for the first time in my life, including symbols and numbers and multiple mods. Plus for a short while made me a "better" programmer, because each damn letter being so painful to coordinate needed planning and intention; when you snipe code instead of machine-gunning it you get more time to think.
@dudalias now I'm reading about typing effort models and bigrams!