This is me too. I've been a "high speed hunt and peck" typist since I starting using computers in 1985. I highly recommend it.
Being able to type fast does make computers vastly more enjoyable to use. Using computers every day was all the practice I needed to make me type faster. IRC and AIM in the 90s/00s were the big drivers for fast typing. In my teens and twenties I topped 120 WPM with reasonable accuracy.
I've slowed down in my "old age", and my accuracy has gotten pretty bad. Then again, I think keyboards have gotten worse, too. I use mostly non-contoured chicklet key shitty laptop keyboards today. It might be interesting to wire up an AT-to-PS/2-to-USB franken-dongle, connect one of the keyboards from my youth, and see how it feels. I don't think I'd be willing to sacrifice the desk space, though, to daily-drive that kind of setup.
---
Aside: I was the last class in my high school to have typing class on electric typewriters. I struck a tenuous bargain with the teacher whereby I'd do the work without complaint and he'd avert his eyes from my "improper" technique. The "home row" exercises were excruciating time sucks, but once we got into actually typing real English text it was fine. The tactile response and feel of an electric typewriter is pretty cool.