Typing was a required course in high school. I hated the class at the time, but boy, am I glad it was required. Typing properly is certainly helpful as far as workflow is concerned. If I hadn't learned how to type, would I have learned later -- or would I be hunting and pecking?

The reason I bring this up, is because I recently witnessed someone hunting and pecking with unbelievable speed. Just using their two index fingers with rapid and forceful precision. I was amazed, and this person was probably typing as fast as I do (using all ten fingers). The noise was incredible -- a machine gun ferocity. I don't recall the delete key being used at all. Impressive.

I would think that capitalization and special characters would be significantly slower using the hunt and peck method, but after witnessing the amazing index finger typist, it seems that it's possible to keep up with the best of them.

I'm curious, do you type from the home row -- or do you hunt and peck?