Yes, I am a touch-typist. I learned to type on my grandparent’s 8088—self-taught, ultra-fast!
My brother uses the hunt-and-peck method using his index fingers. It’s very strange to watch.
51, non-touch typist. I use the religious method (seek and ye shall find). I only use two fingers; index on left hand and middle finger on right.
I think I should mention that I seem to use up to 5 fingers when I get rolling.
I thought I just gained a thumb for the space bar, but I was mistaken. (looks sadly at the other 8 useless digits)
This test put me at 113 WPM with 0 errors, but that didn’t seem representative of real-world typing to me. I’m not that fast.
Yes, although my method is pretty different from what would be taught in a typing class. I can tell because every once in a while I’ll start a sentence with my fingers one key to the left or right, and all the following characters will be off by the same amount.
I’m the worst typist on the planet. I attempted touch typing before but taking into account the time it took to correct all of the mistakes I decided to just stick to the hunt and peck method.
This is embarrassing at times on a job site when some of the bookkeepers watch me type something on their pc’s but I have learned to live with the smirks. 
In my HS you were not allowed to take typing until you were a Jr. My handwriting was so bad I was forced to take typing as a Freshman. 1966 - Manual typewriter.
So yes, touch typing ever since, around 80wpm.
I have terrible handwriting.
Going to high school in the early 1980s I took a typing course because my father (who was one of the relatively few people working in IT back then) knew that if I could type well college and the working world would be much easier for me.
IIRC there were two courses, one was something like Business Typing which was for people training for clerical jobs and the other was Personal Typing for people like me who expected to use it to type college papers or whatever. So I learned touch typing then and have used it ever since.
My younger brother who actually works in IT never took it so he uses the two finger hunt and peck method. He claims he can type fast for all that, I never tire of pointing out to him that as fast as he types now he could type 5 times faster if he used all of his fingers :).
In my career in biological research I have often seen brilliant scientists with years of training and multiple advanced degrees who make six figure salaries, with access to millions of dollars of IT equipment and resources…typing reports with their two index fingers.
This seems to be people who were in college in the 80s or before, younger people seem mostly to be able to touch type.
I took a typing class as a high school senior and have been touch-typing since. My skill has gone from about 20WPM (partly due to having a Commodore 64 at home and an IBM Selectric at school) to above 55 over the past 22 years; prior to my carpal tunnel, I was able to hit 75. Yeah, I’ve impressed my coworkers at times
The boss has been trying to get everyone here to use ergonomic keyboards; I tried one and hated it. They put the 6 with the wrong hand!
Way before computers were a gleam in anyone’s eye, I took my father’s manual typewriter to 4th grade to work on a project. It was a pretty progressive school, and the teacher noticed that I was hunt & pecking. She said, “You’re in 4th grade and you can’t touch type yet?”
I was so humiliated that I went home and told my mother that I had to learn how to type. She sent away for a Calvert Home School course. Once I got the hang of the concept, I threw away the book and taught myself.
By the time I got to college, I was one of the few male students who could touch type. In my generation, only non-college bound women took typing for secretarial futures. Men were supposed to dictate so their secretaries would type it. A typewriter keyboard was not a manly thing to master.
As it turns out, typing is a skill that serves us well in the computer age, and I’m very glad I learned. At least until a better voice recognition system comes along.
I can touch type and use our company’s proprietary software by touch type too. It’s to the point where if I need to give someone instructions and I look at my hands, it confuses me.
I never took classes. I just did a lot of typing-intensive things. I have no idea what my typing speed or accuracy is, though, as it’s not at all important to my job.
I’m 31.
Inspired by a xkcd post a few months ago, I decided on whim to start learning how to type on the Dvorak keyboard format. Within a few weeks, I surpassed my previous typing speed by a small amount. As mentioned before, you have to learn how to touch type.
Since I use public computers with some regularity, I’ve also been forced to type in QWERTY. Though I’ve lost some of my original touch typing ability with QWERTY (I have to look at the keyboard when I type, but I don’t look at every keypress), I do type pretty quickly.
I’m in my early 40s and I learned to touch type in high school, on this horrible manual typewriter. I had an electric at home (a big boat-anchor of an IBM Selectric I inherited from my grandfather) but looking back I was glad for the manual because it helped me build up the muscles I needed to type forever without any problems. After all these years I haven’t even had a hint of carpal tunnel or any other RSI from typing, and I type a lot (writer by trade, WoW addict the rest of the time).
Why did I learn in the first place? Certainly no secretarial aspirations (I had no desire to get anywhere near any traditionally female occupations like that–once a tomboy, always a tomboy) but even in high school I was a voracious writer and I figured it would be easier to learn to type faster and more accurately than by using the Biblical method (“seek and ye shall find.”) That typing class was probably the most useful thing I did in high school, and that includes things like AP English and other core subjects.
I took typing in 8th grade, which was 1987 for me. We learned on some pretty nice electronic typewriters, however what reinforced it for me was coming home each day and BBS’ing with my 300 baud modem! In those days you could “chat” with the sysop (the guy hosting the BBS) and it was done “live” where you could see what the other guy was typing, character by character. Obviously, the faster you could type, the more elite you were! (This was way before 1337, we spelled it out in those days)
I was in the Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Korea back in 1953, and by golly they gave an off hours typing course at 8th Army headquarters in Seoul. I took it, and it was one of the smartest things I ever did. It made learning to use a computer much easier - those folks who take in on a PC for the first time without having this skill have my sincere sympathy. I watch the keyboard more than the screen, but this is more because of bad habits than anything else. And spell checker helps.
I keep resolving to stop looking at the keyboard, but at 78YO old habits die hard.
I’ve finally figured out why I don’t post here much:
33 words per minute :o
As you might imagine, I don’t touch type.
I learned to type in HS, on manual typewriters. Broke my first electric typewriter because I hit the keys too hard. Finally got used to to keyboards and I haven’t looked back.
Being a 911 guy too, touch typing is the only way. There are times where I am not even looking at the screen while typing calls in. I can also type one handed, while the other is dialing a phone or using the mouse to set off alert tones etc.
I can also use the number pad fairly well, but only with my right hand. On the same note, I can only dial a phone with my left, because that is the hand I use at work to dial the phone with. If I try to dial with my right, the 1,2,3’s and 7,8,9’s are backwards!
I learned touch-typing in the 9th grade, back in 1972. I was one of 4 guys in a class with about 30 gals. Not that I did anything with those odds, but the scenery was nice.
My dad was bemused by my choice, as he thought I’d have secretaries to do all that for me. Mom supported me in it; I’d already been hunting and pecking my school papers since 5th grade and was sick of that lame method.
I could do 50 WPM on the manual typewriter, and 75 on the old IBM selectric.
I earned some money in college, typing my roommate’s papers.
My keyboarding skills have been invaluable professionally, even though I have a pool of word-processing assistants at my disposal.
No. I type without touching.