we are ridiculously similar... been speed reading since i was very young, i read the novelised version of Mad Max 3 at age 12 in just over 8 hours (600 pages)

yes it was way better than the movie, but yes, the movie is also awesome

also, been touch typing since i was 14 and i watched an older kid in the computer room typing up his draft fantasy novel... took me 3 months to master it and then in 2004 i switched to dvorak and stopped having pain from typing over 5000 words a day