[jprete]

I learned in ancient times in a high school class, on a physical typewriter, one character at a time. There were lots of rote exercises intended to teach my brain that pressing the key on a particular finger, displaced from the home row by a particular distance, would physically produce a particular character. Words only came later.

This resulted in my brain making a positional map of QWERTY, which not only makes ten-finger typing faster, but also two-finger and touchscreen typing.