Yes, you can learn to touch type when you are 23. It's not even that hard. And, it's my belief after seeing lots of programmers touch type or finger pecking is that you can be an average coder hunt and pecking. But to become an expert you absolutely must learn to touch type. Like if you have to spend a portion of your focus locating which keys to press, then that is focus you don't have available for thinking about what to type.
When I learnt touch typing, I had a game with words falling from the sky which you shoot down by typing them. And the words got longer and fell faster the farther into the game you progressed. I can't remember what it was called, but it improved my typing skills a lot as I was trying to beat my friends high scores. :) I think any game like that, like http://play.typeracer.com/ is very good to practice with.
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Yes, you can learn to touch type when you are 23. It's not even that hard. And, it's my belief after seeing lots of programmers touch type or finger pecking is that you can be an average coder hunt and pecking. But to become an expert you absolutely must learn to touch type. Like if you have to spend a portion of your focus locating which keys to press, then that is focus you don't have available for thinking about what to type.
When I learnt touch typing, I had a game with words falling from the sky which you shoot down by typing them. And the words got longer and fell faster the farther into the game you progressed. I can't remember what it was called, but it improved my typing skills a lot as I was trying to beat my friends high scores. :) I think any game like that, like http://play.typeracer.com/ is very good to practice with.