I am not a "memorizer" so I could not type, even in Jr High typing class without looking, even to today. I can't memorize something like where the keys are because it makes no logical sense. All the phone and car things that have a symbol instead of a word don't mean anything to me. I understand things that make sense like Maxwell's Equations or statistical distributions. Those road signs with an outline of a car and squiggly lines behind it and the first thing I think is "Drunk Driver Ahead". On my cell phone I just hit things until I get what I want or it hangs up. Why can't they put a word under the stupid symbol?
But the QWERTY keyboard intuitively made sense for me once I got the hang of the home positions (ASDF - JKL;). That puts the most commonly used characters in easy reach of your fingers when in home position. With repetition, it becomes second nature and you quickly figure out where the less commonly used keys are as well, such as ~, \, and } - all without looking.