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Funny thing, learning programming (and in particular, learning vim) taught me touch typing. I was a 80WPM hunt-n-peck typist, and my typing/"business computing
by ajford 9y ago
Funny thing, learning programming (and in particular, learning vim) taught me touch typing.
I was a 80WPM hunt-n-peck typist, and my typing/"business computing" teacher in High School was a 25WPM touch typist. She couldn't convince me it was worth learning, so I never did. I'd fake it and other bs until we finally moved on after about 2-3 months.
However, after programming for about 3 years, I realised that I had subconciously learned how to touch type, and with about a month of concentrating on better finger usage, I achieved a more "proper" touch typing form.
My one complaint about vim: muscle memory. After using vim for years, you'll find random :w's and :q's at the end of so many emails or documents in other programs!