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I don't feel that I need it but I thought I'd give it an honest try and follow the instructions. I never realized it but when it comes to curly braces and other
by 6DM 10y ago
I don't feel that I need it but I thought I'd give it an honest try and follow the instructions. I never realized it but when it comes to curly braces and other keys in that corner "{ [ ] } \". I would take my hand off and use my ring and middle finger. Therefore I was under utilizing my pinky. I also noticed that I tended to use the same shift key for all the letters resulting in weird contortions of my hand.
Doing a quick 1 minute typing test comes up at 90 wpm. However programming, with all the mistakes from jumping around I think brings me down a lot more than this. So I found it surprisingly useful.
- randlet 10y agoI've been touch typing for 20 years at this point and 90 WPM seems crazy to me. I first tried the speed coder site on some Python code and only managed 45wpm. After reading your comment I then went and did a 1 min test on some general text and only managed to hit 55wpm! That said, I've never felt constrained by my typing speed while programming.