[soared]

A lot of high effort responses here (practice, training, new keyboards, etc).

Everyone I know learned to type very fast by pc gaming MMOs. WoW or other games force you to ‘practice’ a few hours a day, get extremely in tune with your keyboard, type the same few sentences thousands of times, and type short sentences extremely quickly. Short term a wow addiction is bad for your life, but you do gain exceptional keyboard skills.

[shostack]

This. Gemstone III and Dragonrealms and countless other MUDs when I was younger got me around 90wpm at near 100% accuracy. It is shocking how fast you improve when you are in combat against multiple critters and need to micromanage your attacks.

Incidentally, scripting for Dragonrealms was one of my first memories of really hacking together somewhat complex logic for travel and skill training.

[episteme]

It's not as much of a forcing factor as it used to be, a lot of the MMOs now have systems that mean you barely have to talk at all. I think you would probably have to join a guild which has active chatter on Discord to find the communication from a few years ago.