Not many boys took typing in school. In the second year, I was the only boy left. Got ragged on a little for being in that class as it was clearly meant for girls who wanted to be secretaries but that's the one skill I learned in high school that I still use today.
The skill I learned in Elementary School that most intrigued me (other than reading) was learning about and determining longitude and latitude.
I’ve never had any reason to use it; and I have to agree that typing has been most useful - especially with the advent of computers. I see a lot of people hunting-and-pecking who do very well, but never as efficiently as ‘real’ typists do. We don’t even have to look at the keyboard :-)