Is there really a need for blistering-fast WPM? Outside of transcribing/typing up documents (and how many people really do that anymore?) is there any real poi

Is there really a need for blistering-fast WPM? Outside of transcribing/typing up documents (and how many people really do that anymore?) is there any real point to it? I don't know that I manage more than a sentence a minute - the limiting factor there isn't my typing speed, it's thinking through and editing what I'm going to say. Programming, it's probably on the order of 10-15 characters a line, and unless I'm doing mindless boilerplate, that line takes a minute or two to think through.