Hello Nick,
I passed the classes fine, but I never got to a point where I really felt comfortable with it. Especialy for C-style code, where the usual statistics for most/least-commonly-used characters go right out the window and you spend about as much time streching for a shifted punctuation and various keyboard shortcuts as you spend on the "home keys". But I've been able to get up to about 30 or so words per minute with the ad-hoc style I've been developing since I was about 7, and that's been more than fast enough for any coding or normal writing I've ever done.
I'm working in programming for a living and I can just barley touch type. As for using the home row, if I even have one it's "adfv" and ";kjn" (BTW I've never hand RSI problems :).
I'm also another person that finds semicolons magically appearing at the end of statements...even when I use a language that doesn't allow them ;)
Me to; English; -- ... <IXOYE><
