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>It's how well they think, which is mostly inversely related to WPM. That's an...interesting claim. Why do you think typing ability is negatively correlated w
by endtime 17y ago
>It's how well they think, which is mostly inversely related to WPM.
That's an...interesting claim. Why do you think typing ability is negatively correlated with intelligence?
- khafra 17y agoI, for one, can type almost 80wpm and am dumb as a rock. I can never solve logic puzzles, and struggle with debugging when writing one-page scripts in Python.
- alanthonyc 17y agoUpvoted, for making me chuckle. But I'm pretty sure that typing speed and programming ability are not-correlated, most definitely not inversely related.
- nzmsv 17y ago"Correlation does not equal causation" Also, I really should learn to type better. This though got me googling. I found some discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=952745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=952745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510087 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510087 Also, I seem to remember someone posting a webapp typing tutor. Does anyone remember the name?
- nzmsv 17y agoNot so much typing ability as actual typing output. And this was supposed to be only half-serious :) What I meant was that it's better to spend some time solving the problem in your head, rather than bang out line after line of bad code. So, in essence, the typing speed is not the bottleneck of coding productivity. Of course, a proper study on this would be a better argument than just me making stuff up.