Touch typing is a very underrated skill. Few people feel the need to learn it. But it's immediately useful. The keyboard simply disappears from your mind, sparing your entire attention for the task at hand and increasing your productivity noticeably. It reduces the strain on your eyes too. Even allows you to close your eyes in between long typing sessions.
Learning the first layout is a bit hard and may take upto a month. Subsequent layouts are easier to learn. And you can use the same keyboard for all those layouts. I can handle US Qwerty and my native language effortlessly now. Now considering Colemak-DH. Touch typing is something I feel every programmer, writer, journalist, documenter and secretary must learn.
Learning the first layout is a bit hard and may take upto a month. Subsequent layouts are easier to learn. And you can use the same keyboard for all those layouts. I can handle US Qwerty and my native language effortlessly now. Now considering Colemak-DH. Touch typing is something I feel every programmer, writer, journalist, documenter and secretary must learn.