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by tstrimple 590 days ago
If you type without looking, you're touch typing. Maybe you're not a strict home row user, but that has little to do with touch typing outside of formal learning. It took typing on a split ergo keyboard for me to figure out I was using "weird" fingers to press certain keys. I don't use the home row either. My resting position is Shift-A-(W/S)-D for my left hand (muscle memory from FPS games I'm sure) and M-K-L-/ for my right hand. I tend to only use my pinkies for modifier keys and my index fingers work overtime stretching to cover the middle of the keyboard. I still manage to type ~100wpm without trying too hard.