I learned typing at home as a teenager. My father really encouraged me when I was 14 and told him I wanted to learn how to make software reading books like my friend was doing. One day my father realized I was spending more time hunting and pecking keys than I was spending figuring out what program code to write. So he asked me if I wanted to learn to type, I told him I did, and he bought me a typing tutor app for my Commodore-64 that came on a 51/4" disk. (By the way, having a floppy drive instead of a tape drive was like driving with nitro. LOL) About once per week he asked me to show him how much better my typing was and I'd show him. Then he'd ask me to show him whatever software I made and he'd patiently listen to me give him a code review. LOL
That’s a great dad you had — and hopefully still have.
Typing is a skill that served me my entire life. I guess I should say “keyboarding” so I don’t sound my age.