How fast touch typing helps programmers

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Hello friends. So this morning in my discord we had a little bit of a

conversation about touch typing. One of my friends there asked if they

should get into Vim and they were thinking that Vim you can move a little

faster and well I think that's that can be true.

I think there's a little bit of an illusion to moving quickly just because

you're using a special text editor or editor or a VIM like key bindings

thing. I think you can get just as fast without them. And I've been on both

sides, but yeah, andNow I'm not using them keen bitings But anyway I think,

we kind of came around to touch typing was the thing that was selling them

down.

They could improve their speed if they just were able to type a little

faster. And so I thought yeah, I just got me thinking this morning about

how valuable it can be to be able to type very quickly. I think most of us

have been in a situation where the interface to the computer wasn't fast

enough for our brain where we knew exactly what we wanted and it was just a

matter of getting what we wanted into our hands andInto the keyboard and

into the computer.

And so in particular, sometimes I say hey if you aren't sure about which

direction to go with some API or something then focus on building both

versions and choose which one you dislike the least is kind of my approach

to things and so what it's it's not without cost to do that like it does

cost to build it both ways, but if you like have it in your mind of what

those ways are going to look like and and it's not like a huge.

Investment of mental energy to do it then the investment just comes down to

how quickly can you type and you can reduce that investment by learning to

type quicker. And so if you are not at right now I took a typing test and

in a kind of real world sort of test.

I'm at around 88 words per minute and so I'm a pretty fast typer or typist

however you want to say that. If you're not at around that pace then let me

just tell you that the human body is capable of really amazing things our

brains are are capable of amazing things and you can probably work your way

up.

To to much quicker than you are And I would encourage you to put some

intentional practice into that if you want to improve your typing speed.

Now, there's a lot more to coding than just the typing speed. So don't

worry about that. I spend way more time thinking than I do typing but I

know situations where typing is the bottleneck it's really frustrating if

you're not very fast at it.

So I'd encourage you to give it some intentional practice. Anyway, I hope

that's helpful and interesting I will add a link to a the typing test that

I took so you can take it yourself.Have a good day.