Like many here i've been into computers from a really young age, 6 or 7 when i started playing with windows 3.1 then windows 95 machines that would get thrown away when businesses would upgrade ( i'm only 20 now). I've always been interested in hardware more than anything, but anyway i started " touch typing ", more like being able to hunt and peck without looking at the age of 10 or 12, ( i got to the point of typing 60-65 wpm average like that) i did not start correctly touch typing until maybe two years ago, it was really hard for me to break my old typing habits so i ended up failing my middle school and high school computer classes. We had an older teacher that started back when they would tape pins onto the base of typewriters so that you wouldn't be tempted to use improper posture with your wrists.... So no matter the speed and accuracy if your posture was off you wouldn't get a passing grade.
After my keyboard interests started to grow i got more motivated to start typing correctly. I'm still only at about 45 WPM average.