I find the comments/answers on this question to be a little funny. Where I went to High School, we were required to take a typing class before we could take the computer class. Even back in those redamentary days of the Basic language, it was much easier to know how to type and do your work without looking at your hands than the other way around.

Even today, though I don't do much coding or what have you, if I'm working on SharePoint and I want to copy something from the internet into my code, I can look at the secondary screen and type it out, which makes life a LOT easier. Well, I don't know about life, but it sure makes getting it into my code easier!