What are benefits of touch typing?

Answer 1

Here is a list of benefits:

• It will help you be more productive in typing work;
• Extra benefit when applying for a job;
• No need to look on a keyboard;
• Save time and less time in front of computer;

Answer 2

Touch typing is to type without looking into the keys with all fingers. The adventage of this is the work on computers will be easier and one can finish his job quicker.

Without knowing touch-typing skill one should not try to learn computers or get into computer related job.

I 100% disagree with the above - touch typing is not a necessary skill, however it does help. You can still type at a reasonable speed with two fingers, just nowhere near as quickly or accurately as a touch typist.

Answer 3

Leaning touch typing inproves the quality of programmers work so they can type faster and better code. It will cause less troubles while debugging. So generally, it improves speed of any process.

Answer 4

Ok, the benefits of learning to type are that you can type almost 3x the speed that you probably type now. I didn't know how to type until later, and now i can type my papers really fast. It's worth it to learn how to type

Answer 5

It speeds up anything you do that requires typing. It's a life-long skill.