Is two-finger non-homerow touch-typing for programming acceptable?

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Published on 2009-08-06T03:11:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 4:34 UTC
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I'm currently typing about 90 wpm (from http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/ 90 correct 0 missed) using two fingers and the occasional ring or index. This probably grew from learning to type at an early age, before home-row was presented to me.

Is this acceptable? Do people religiously endorse home-row even with low-mistake poking without looking at the keyboard?

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