I found a small interview with master typist Daniel Chen. He recommends Hanon! Oh me oh my, the memories of those boring etudes... ;)
Anyway, I'm reposting that here because I think his point that people who wish to excel must train their weak fingers, is a good one. It also shows that to really succeed I should've started at the age of four. Bleh.
As for keyboarding, I knew how to touchtype at a very young age by practising the traditional
8/9-finger style for QWERTY on my old Apple IIc computer back in 1994. I could type English at
300 cpm when I was only six years old, and I started to play the piano when I was seven. This,
of course, helped with my keyboarding as well. I more or less achieved the speed that I am at
now when I was in middle school, in grade 7 (year 2000). For keyboarding, developing strong
and independent fingers is especially important, particularly in the left hand, which is the
weaker hand for most people. This weakness, often most pronounced in the 4th and 5th fingers,
can be improved by practising Hanon piano exercises with regularity.”
Daniel Chen
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