I have always disagreed with the rationales given for why typing speed doesn't matter for coding. Maybe it just depends on how your brain works. I can't really

I have always disagreed with the rationales given for why typing speed doesn't matter for coding. Maybe it just depends on how your brain works. I can't really think about a problem while I'm typing. I can think, or I can type what I've already decided to type. Worse, the longer I'm not thinking about the problem, the more I lose my place. So for me, typing speed is critical. I need to get the part I'm working on out as fast as possible, so I can get back to thinking about the problem. Now that said, we tend to justify the abilities we have, and discount the abilities we don't. I'm a very fast typist, so I do have some skin in the game to think typing is important. I suspect that people who are not fast typists also have some impetus to think that typing speed is unimportant. Nonetheless, I do think what I said above is a factor, at least for some people.