Touchtyping Tunes

I listen to a lot of music at work, because it makes work more bearable and colleagues less audible.

I was sitting typing a particularly bland batch of bilge, when it occurred to me that the lyrics of the song I was listening to were far more interesting, so I started to type them instead.

[Casually drumming his fingers on the metaphorical start line, he waits. The song starts. Our young hero quickly panics.]
"Purple jumping weasels that's quick!"
[His pudgy fingers fly across the keyboard, but still the singer races ahead.]
"Stop singing, damn you, I'm only on line 2!"

My first attempt ended up looking like this:

"The vcut ratye mime walking throughnjt ej dirty streets,,of Paris in the hot autumn heat, sun melting the fakew msilse away, just looking for a place to stay/the actress gave up all jer pld dreams/and traded up now she is a queen/royal families don’t gave time for that shiot/your crystal bvall you keep it hid/

Thej tractor trailer rdriver radios help me someone I’m out here all alone, truck driving the black night awyay, praying for the light ofd day/the jkid in threw mall works at hod dog on a stick/his hat is a funny dshape/his heart is a brick/ taking yopur ordper he will look away/he doesn’t hgave a thing to say/but me I’m feeling pretty good ads of now/not so sure when I gfot here or how/sun melting the fakle smile awayI trhink you know I’ll be ok."

This was not a fast song, nor am I an especially bad typist,although I am somewhat fat-fingered.

I contend that this could be an excellent way to learn to type, whilst simultaneously conditioning the short-term memory.

For beginners, something slow and repetitive, intermediates can try gospel or indie rock, whilst truly nimble fingers can attempt punk or Busta Rhymes.