Really, the best way is to find employment (somehow), preferably in a highly collaborative environment, -- or perhaps with important, competently-managed volunt

Really, the best way is to find employment (somehow), preferably in a highly collaborative environment, -- or perhaps with important, competently-managed volunteer project -- and you'll find out very quickly how you compare to others. Another option (while not as fun) are the various coding portals (Hackerrank, etc). BTW frameworks (while useful in the bigger picture sense) do not necessarily make one produce "faster" (and in many cases can have exactly the opposite effect). It's really about quality, after all -- especially in the sense of making one's code easily understandable by others. And that's a skill you can practice (and most likely, practice better) "in the small", i.e. within the core language you specialize in, even on fairly routine programming tasks.