When you type, do your fingers spend more time suspended in the air than most commercial airlines? For a pretty small investment in time, you can dramatically increase your typing speed, saving you countless hours over the course of your life. Also, you gain the ability to look someone in the eye whilst typing, which freaks them out.
Even if you mostly express yourself in emojis these days, typing remains an essential skill for office jobs, letters of complaint, dating site introductions, and more. The faster you can type these serious things, the sooner you can get back to thumb typing things like c u l8er [smiley face] [foamy beer glass].
A friendly fellow named Peter made this calm, free site to help you learn to type:
If the only way you can get the motivation to type is through the gory obliteration of zombies, and you have more than $20, then you need any of the six 'The Typing of the Dead' games:
Have you always found the keyboard layout to be completely arbitrary and heard that rumour it was designed that way to slow users down? Well, it is, and it wasn’t. Take ten minutes to read this entertaining comic which delves into typewriter history and introduces the Dvorak method of typing, which has an overall better design than the qwerty keyboard, but has only ever enjoyed a cult following:
All this typing will surely inspire a desire for a typing competition, which you can take part in here: