I know one source for learning touch typing online but it utilizes Colemak and can't use Tarmak so that brings me to question. Do you think it's wise for me to learn to hunt and peck using Tarmak and when I finally hit the Colemak stage to go and learn to touchtype from scratch and try to overwrite the hunting and pecking or not?

So touch typing is basically defined as typing without looking? Under that case, I actually do touch type in QWERTY but I don't rest all my fingers in the right places, they just fly around the whole board.

haha the hunt in huntnpeck implies the odd glance down at the keyboard which precludes touch-type status

most have to employ a strict finger->key mapping regime to allow touch-typing to be possible, but for sure, not everyone (sean wrona)

to test whether you are a touch-typist place a tea-towel over your hands/keyboard and type 'a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' ten times in a row

if you have an accuracy of over 98% then I think you can call yourself a touch-typist

if not a long and lonely road lies ahead of you..

I was in a similar position 3 months ago - I could type reasonably well with qwerty using hunt-and-peck, but I wanted to learn Colemak together with proper touch-typing technique.

I also went the Tarmak route. I found it initially difficult to stay disciplined about keeping the hands in the home position and typing keys with the correct finger. The problem is qwerty is much less well suited to touch-tying than Colemak, and it's easy to fall into old habits when only a few keys are changed. However by the time you get to Tarmak steps 2 or 3, you really should be making the effort to touch-type all the time. I doubt there would be any point learning Colemak if you weren't willing to learn proper technique as well, and certainly I didn't feel any benefit until I was regularly touch typing also.

The bad news is (in my experience) learning touch-typing technique is more difficult than learning the Colemak layout per se. But the good news is it will be worth in the long term if you stick with it. I am far from fluent but I can type well enough now to at least appreciate the benefit.

I don't think simply "not looking" is a very useful definition for touch typing.  I would additionally require keys to be hit by nearby fingers.  Either that, or we need another word for touch typing that's not just pecking.

Conversely, I'd consider "hunt and peck" appropriate even if you hunt by proprioception rather than sight.  One interesting way to think about it is that the finger has to hunt (potentially far away) for the button to peck, rather than only going after the nearby buttons (in analogy to farming?).