The reason it's hard to take slow typists seriously as programmers isn't that typing speed affects your ability as a programmer; the issue is that it speaks to

The reason it's hard to take slow typists seriously as programmers isn't that typing speed affects your ability as a programmer; the issue is that it speaks to how much time you've really spent in front of a computer, actually writing programs. I've never met a slow typist who had written gobs of code (good or bad).