[mks]

Your hands are the most practical brain-computer interface you have. With touch typing it really feels like you are controlling computer with your mind - for me it's absolutely worth the time investment.

I was lucky my father prompted me to self-learnt it in high school. I have started with learning basic hand positions and technique from a book. Once I could barely type without looking, I started transcribing handwritten drafts of my school essays to the computer. Painfully slow for first few days but gradually I got to decent speed (and tidy looking essays).

Oddly, when writing documents, I still prefer pen and paper for taking notes and writing first draft. Afterwards nothing beats the power of editing on computer where touch typing is the ultimate power up.

[ehnto]

Beautifully put. I didn't give it serious thought until perhaps 5 years ago, at which point I started gearing my tools to keyboard only input. I had always found the mouse clumsy, inconcise and a distraction if it was needed.

Without getting caught up on specific tools, using editors and a window manager that are all keyboard focused, and learning all the keyboard shortcuts I can for my tools,I feel I can stay in flow much better and work more concisely.

Using some of these tools makes me feel like I am using telepathy almost, as stuff happens on the screen where and when I want precisely.