Touch Typing Number Keys

I learnt touch typing about two decades ago when I was still at university. Although I took some typewriter lessons as a child, those lessons did not stick with me. It was at university, when I found a Java applet-based touch typing tutor on the web, that I really learnt to touch type. Since then, touch typing has been an important part of my computing life. I've sometimes read arguments on the web downplaying touch typing as a skill, with claims like 'typing isn't the bottleneck, thinking is'. While that may be true, I still consider touch typing a useful skill, since it makes writing documents, code and email feel much more fluid and pleasant. It's like playing a musical instrument with the correct technique, rather than simply getting by without it. One feels smooth and expressive and the other feels raw and laboured. Later in life, I also wrote a tool named QuickQWERTY so that I could share the joy of touch typing with my friends. The tool teaches typing only with the QWERTY…