In the Age of AI, People Still Type With Their Hands

About two months ago I submitted my typing trainer FingerGo to Flathub. I was genuinely curious - do people still type with their hands in the age of AI? Do they still train touch typing, or are they satisfied with a speech-to-text button and the occasional lazy two-finger hunt for the remaining keys? :D

Turns out - yes! You'd think a niche tool for desktop Linux wouldn't get much traction, but so far it's pulling 1,000+ installs per month.

I originally built this for myself. I got a split keyboard and started learning touch typing. As a developer, you need to type, stay in the flow, and not break focus. Also - my wrists started hurting. So I switched to a split keyboard and invested in proper touch typing. Within a few months I hit a comfortable 60 WPM on plain text and ~40 WPM coding. That's a solid average for touch typists - and pretty much unreachable for "hunters." I consider this a true hard skill and one of the best investments for anyone spending most of their day at a computer.

According to FingerGo's Flathub, the top countries interested in touch typing training are:

USA (largest desktop Linux user base), Germany (historically strong Linux community plus a culture of privacy and open source), India (growing pool of developers on Linux), and Brazil (active FOSS community).