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Any activity that lets you practice curiosity and creativity. Make music, play video games, figure out why the WiFi is spotty in that one room. Also, learn to

• mod 9y ago
  I do not think fast typing is a requisite or even usually a "nice-to-have" skill for programming. I'm a professional programmer who types over 100wpm, so maybe I'm overlooking something. I rarely ever find that typespeed is my limiting factor.
  • yesenadam 9y ago
    I think you're overlooking that you type at over 100wpm. (So of course typespeed isn't your bottleneck.)
    • mod 9y ago
      Fair enough, but I could have gone into more detail. For every 1 minute that I spend typing code, I probably spend 10+ minutes reading and thinking about code. We're trying to optimize the 10% if we're trying to improve coding by improving wpm