title: Time to relearn touch typing? (Is this a Emacs / VIM thing?)
body: <p>As a kid, I learned to type on a German keyboard<sup>1</sup>?. And even though my mom tried to make me use a "learn how to type with ten fingers" program I never did. My hands have their very own muscle memory about how to type. I found out that I use the index fingers most to reach many characters, while my hands are moving over the keyboard.</p>
  
  <p>Now, here's the kicker (no flame intended!): I use and used emacs a lot and I've never really had an issue with the way I type, or at least it never felt too awkward. From time to time I like to explore VIM (and other editors) to see what has changed and which features are the new and hot features.</p>
  
  <p>I came to the conclusion that, while my fingers /rest close/ to the home row, my hands move a lot and the default keyboard command layout in vim seems to prefere the fingers resting on the home row with little movement of the hands.</p>
  
  <p>I don't consider myself to be a slow touch typist, but could a formal touch type education increase speed and accuracy? Furthermore is this a Emacs / VIM thing?</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: I headed over to <a href="http://typeracer.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://typeracer.com/</a> :)</p>
  
  <p><sup>1</sup>: These days I type on US keyboards while switching between different layouts as needed.</p>