Typing was beaten into me when I was going through grade-school. We were taught to not look at the keyboard.
Over the years you just learn where everything is, and you learn how to rapidly use the backspace key while thinking and writing at the same time.
Probably the best place, recently, that I found to keep my eyes on the monitor and not the keyboard, was through online gaming. Want to throw up a fast rant, battle-plan, lengthy chat, but not get wasted at the same time? Gotta keep those eyes on the monitor.