I type blind (as we call it).
Even when I'm typing dos commands (which are generally short), I put my fingers on the keyboard correctly
I've been in the States as an Exchange Student back in the stone age, and I learned how to type blind there.
I think, being a professional software developer, it really is handy if you can type without having to look at your keyboard, especially if you run a dual-monitor setup, with, on one monitor, the code you want to "adapt" and on the other monitor your development application
Oh, if you're going to a school, where the keyboards are almost falling apart, it also pays if you don't have to look at your keyboard. One day, somebody had mixed the keys of several keyboards together and put them back in a random order. I only noticed this about an hour of using the keyboard