Touch typing... I'm embarrassed to confess I'm still typing with just 4 fingers while keeping my eyes on the keyboard instead of the screen.
Although I doubt it would require 100 hours to learn.
Just a few days ago I started using Keybr to learn to touch type. It frustrates me less than any other program I've used before, so far. I'm touch-typing this comment... slowly ;)
I can type quickly through my own means but very inaccurately. In a recent fast-paced online game the other players assumed I wasn't a native English speaker due to all my typos. I was a Vim user for ten years and would constantly mash the wrong keys. After starting touch-typing a few days ago, I redownloaded the old Vimfx extension to control my web browser from my keyboard. It ended up requiring me to switch to a Firefox fork called Waterfox though, as the modern (post-2017) extensions have to rely on injecting Javascript into the page and don't work well.
If you're going to learn it, use at least a split columnar keyboard and a non qwerty layout. Learning to touch type on a regular keyboard will likely worsen your health compared to your four finger hunt and peck due to the bad uncomfortable qwerty touch typing enforces. Think about the awful pinky curls and reaches. Ouch!
I'm almost 40 and have no issues with this yet. Colemak is my favorite non-QWERTY and feels smooth, but sadly, programming was designed with QWERTY in mind. The 30% comfort improvement wasn't really worth it and there's a speed drop because I've been on QWERTY since 5 years old. I also use my laptop in well, laptop mode half the time, so eventually I went back to QWERTY.
But it's actually surprising on mobile how much easier a non-QWERTY keyboard is considering it's two thumbs and your thumbs are at the pinky areas most of the time.
spread dev pinky awareness whenever possible, we need a ribbon..the struggle is real and its a sign of excessive copy pasting. customized split keyboard is the cure so bring on the subsidized moonlanders for all
I think subsidized svalboards are far better. Moonlanders are an evolution to the standard keyboard design, but a svalboard is a step function improvement - a true keyboard revolution.
It took me a few months on keybr honestly when I got a new, ergonomic keyboard. The problem with ergo keyboards is they're split at the middle and suddenly my left hand couldn't reach for what was on the right side like it normally would and I had never realized I was doing it "wrong" all this time.
I can type quickly through my own means but very inaccurately. In a recent fast-paced online game the other players assumed I wasn't a native English speaker due to all my typos. I was a Vim user for ten years and would constantly mash the wrong keys. After starting touch-typing a few days ago, I redownloaded the old Vimfx extension to control my web browser from my keyboard. It ended up requiring me to switch to a Firefox fork called Waterfox though, as the modern (post-2017) extensions have to rely on injecting Javascript into the page and don't work well.
https://www.keybr.com/