>also makes it harder to use it as an excuse to learn proper touch typing.
Touch typing is stupid and pointless on qwerty keyboards. On a proper layout like Dvorak, touch typing makes sense because most of the keys you type are on the home row, but on qwerty, it's the opposite: you rarely use the home row keys, so resting your fingers there makes no sense.
Touch typing is stupid and pointless on qwerty keyboards. On a proper layout like Dvorak, touch typing makes sense because most of the keys you type are on the home row, but on qwerty, it's the opposite: you rarely use the home row keys, so resting your fingers there makes no sense.