Agreed, and let me add typing speed is important to 90% of a programmer's activity outside a source code editor. The changeset commit message, the bug tracker d

Agreed, and let me add typing speed is important to 90% of a programmer's activity outside a source code editor. The changeset commit message, the bug tracker description, the status report email, commenting on Hacker News... ;) Anyone who believes typing source code faster increases productivity by any worthwhile amount is solving an inane problem. If the bottleneck is on your fingers, then 10 outsourced developers or a Visual Studio drag-and-dropper will replace you.