Can you text without looking at your keyboard?

Out of the hundreds (if not a thousand by now) text messages I've sent, I haven't even sent 1 where I *didn't* open up the phone.  The QWERTY keyboard is just too convenient.  Maybe one day, I'll even be able to type on it w/o looking at the keyboard. 

Hiya, Grats on your new phone and cover. The Env Touch is a really nice phone, the best phone I have owned on the Verizon network.

My internal kb typing speed has gone way up after I turned off all the predictive crap that was bogging down the phone.  I recommend to turn it off to others who can text quickly.  I usually have to look at the kb when typing as opposed to just the screen, but sometimes I can type w/o looking at the kb. 

Yes, the "Show Candidate", "Word Correction", and "Word Prediction".  I could never figure out the purpose of each.  But whenever I had any of them checked, then typing couldn't keep up w/ my fingers and that was most noticeable with spaces, which would show up something like the following example.  Let's say I want to type the following:

I'm going to the store to pick up milk.

It would come out as something like this:
I'mg oingt othe storeto picku pmilk.

Well, you get the idea, and I exaggerated it a little to make the point.  It was very annoying to go back and fix the spaces.  After turning off all the prediction crap, there's no more space lag.