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Counterargument: I've been coding for around 10 years, and I've never ever had anything remotely close to RSIs or tendinitis. I don't type extremely fast, but i

• tomsthumb 9y ago
  Without knowing anything else, it would be unlikely to find out that you have poor touch-typing posture (e.g., you break the wrist upwards/type with the wrist in extension), or that you have very weak forearms and wrists, and possibly slouch a lot in the shoulders. Not touch typing likely reduces the impact of these liabilities, assuming you have them, by putting breaks into the mechanical demands of typing. You also might just have an absolutely terrible keyboard. Some people pound on keys when they don't need to. There are a lot of reasons typing can cause finger, wrist, and forearm pain.
• collyw 9y ago
  Query keyboards were designed for old typewriters, so that the most common combinations of letters were not beside each other to minimize jamming. Dvorak and Colemak were designed to be the opposite, so if you are keen to touch type then it might be worth looking into. I tried it for RSI, but my speed just wasn't the same as my usual style.