TOO FUNNY! I often joke that typing was the only class I passed in high school (well, not true, but it was the easiest one).
I remember, too, when we took stenography in school in case we wanted to be secretaries (oh man, I just dated myself again - yes, I'm from the stone age). In fact, when I was in high school, computers were not at all in the mainstream, and I thought it was so cool when I took my first "computer" course and learned to TYPE ON A COMPUTER (in 1977)! I figured I could go work for NASA, for cryin' out loud! And yes, my husband is (I shouldn't even say this) king of the peckers (I couldn't resist) - he types with one EXTREMELY slow index finger, and has to look up after he hits each key to make sure it did what he wanted. Consequently I have had to become his personal assistant when he needs to communicate on the web (hey, I did become a secretary after all)! People at work are always amazed at how fast I can type, but if you "talk" as much as I do, you have to be able to type fast!