Years ago (jesus, has it been 15 years?), I was in computer class on the old Macintoshes they had with Mavis Beacon Typing Tutor. We were supposed to type out the sentences we read to increase our typing speed, and learn the home row. I hated home row, and insisted that hunt-and-peck was more comfortable for me. But the teacher was adamant I use home row only, which was annoying. I was also not very fast at either form of typing.
I discovered by accident that if I hit the spacebar for each letter in each word, the program interpreted it as a successful spelling. All I had to do was keep typing the spacebar to complete the words. So i'd put my fingers on the home row, moving my fingers up and down, and pressing the spacebar with my thumb. I got 120 words per minute.