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I doubt there's a very significant productivity advantage to typing fast. But there seem to be a couple of advantages to practising fluid touch-typing: (1) the
by crispinb 10y ago
I doubt there's a very significant productivity advantage to typing fast. But there seem to be a couple of advantages to practising fluid touch-typing: (1) the more automatically you type, the more your thinking as you type is in chunks larger than mere characters. To me at least this feels like text input is less of an interruption to the thinking I had been doing just before typing (2) I find it to be quite a handy warm-up exercise, particularly if my mind feels mushy or reluctant. It's close enough to what I'm doing when actually coding to kind of shoehorn me into the whole process, but easy enough to avoid mental baulking.
- macintux 10y agoAbout 25 (sigh) years ago, I worked alongside a former journalist. Listening to him type was awe-inspiring. I could type reasonably fast, but where I typed in words, he typed in complete sentences. Machine-gun. I think there's something to the idea that typing faster could help you think faster when it comes to text, but not sure it applies to software development.
- crispinb 10y agoPerhaps, but that's not what I meant. It's not the speed, it's the automaticity. The more automatic the typing, the less of a mental context switch there is when moving from merely thinking to thinking + entering text. I wouldn't want to over egg this. It's a small thing, but a little focused practise seems to keep my typing more automatic and thus out of my way.