I've been an accomplished touch typist in English for over fifty years and in Hebrew for at least thirty. In the past I've confessed that sometimes when reading I "see" my fingers typing out the words as I read them. Years ago, when I worked in the Ministry of Education, I was convinced that touch typing should be taught from young grades because of the importance of being able to get ideas from one's head to the screen, and thus savable, quickly. But by the time that people started agreeing with me the standard keyboard, though ubiquitous, was no longer the sole method of getting text to the screen. Today, though my phone's keyboard is standard QWERTY (and its Hebrew equivalent), its size makes touch typing unworkable and I have to work almost solely with two fingers. This also means that I have to look at the keyboard while writing, something that I haven't done in years. Kids today (and yesterday) are familiar with the standard keyboard, but they probably know it better from their phones than from one that's attached to a desktop computer. And this suggests that today there's probably no real purpose in teaching touch typing. I'm sure despite my many years of QWERTY experience many kids are considerably more adept than I am at using their phone's keyboard.