Touch Typing for Computers
Look at adults around you when they are working on their computers.
Are they using a couple of fingers to get that email out? Are they bent over their keyboards, eyes flickering back and forth from the keyboard to the screen?
If you timed their typing speed what rate might you find? 10 words per minute? 60 wpm? Probably closer to 15 wpm and their index fingers hurt, their necks are sore and their lower backs cry out "Desist!"
And what must be their productivity levels? If a person is writing a one-page report, single spaced, there might be 700 words on that page.
Let's say that this report was written out in long hand as the ideas were forming and now comes the time to put it into a form for distribution.
Do the math: If you type 15 wpm you will be able to finish this report in 45 minutes.
If you could type 70 wpm, you would be done in ten minutes.
That leaves you with half an hour to do something else. Maybe write another report! In the work environment, who wins? That's a no-brainer: the person who can touch type
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