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Typing was mandatory in my high school for both boys and girls, but it was only a quarter, not a semester class. We were to learn touch typing, and most of the typewriters had blank keys. I had started at my Dad's law office fairly young typing up documents so my bad habits were already well ingrained. I learned early on to memorize a few sentences at a time and then type them out. That kept my speeds up. Later when I went into the Army I pretended I knew absolutely nothing about typewriters, and when actually set in front of one I displayed a horrendous hunt and peck and "where was that key again?" method. It was quite common at the time to take any girls who could type and make them clerks no matter what their occupational specialty. I wasn't having any of that!
Chat and IM have finally turned me into a touch typist. I've never timed myself, but I can pretty much keep up with someone speaking at a just slower than normal rate of speech.
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