I learned to touch type a few years ago when I was 23. What I found was that it kills your productivity for a few weeks. It's hell trying to write a document or code when you need to split your brain power between what you're doing and where the keys are. It's just about perseverance.
I found the trick is to spell words out in your head. So when typing necessary you'd go 'n-e-c-e-s-s-a-r-y' internally. This forces your brain to better associate a character with a finger movement; the better you get the less you have to do this. Remember it's about building muscle memory so practice is the only thing that is going to turn you into a touch typist. Another trick is making sure you always use the same finger for each key.
Writing documents is really good for getting to learn the character keys really well. Whereas coding will get you to learn grammar, capitalization, special character, and number keys.
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I learned to touch type a few years ago when I was 23. What I found was that it kills your productivity for a few weeks. It's hell trying to write a document or code when you need to split your brain power between what you're doing and where the keys are. It's just about perseverance.
The only tool I used was http://phoboslab.org/ztype/ which is a pretty fun typing game.
I found the trick is to spell words out in your head. So when typing necessary you'd go 'n-e-c-e-s-s-a-r-y' internally. This forces your brain to better associate a character with a finger movement; the better you get the less you have to do this. Remember it's about building muscle memory so practice is the only thing that is going to turn you into a touch typist. Another trick is making sure you always use the same finger for each key.
Writing documents is really good for getting to learn the character keys really well. Whereas coding will get you to learn grammar, capitalization, special character, and number keys.