I can touch type between 50-60 wpm with surprisingly few errors. I do however lean more and more on the FireFox spell checker addon!
I really wanted to take computer science back high school in 1986 but it was only a 1/2 yr class, so I took typing for the first 1/2. It turned out to be a good thing, for some reason knowing where the keys are came in handy when typing in the code for computer science.
I use to have to type in job logs for the techs. They would dictate to me and I would type in the words while looking right at them, usually somewhere to the left of my desk. It use to freak them out when my typed words actually matched what they had said.