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"For their next challenge, they had to type 25 words a minute" That's pretty slow, right?
by petervandijck 16y ago
"For their next challenge, they had to type 25 words a minute" That's pretty slow, right?
- w1ntermute 16y ago...further underscoring the shockingly poor quality of the applicants.
- shrikant 16y agoThat's pretty fast for hunt-and-peck using your index fingers only.
- msg 16y agoMy dad's high school students in Infotech have to get up to 30 wpm to qualify for (cross-applied) community college credits in IT 101.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoAs I recall, to pass grade 9 typing in my Toronto area high school I had to type 40 WPM net.
- phr 16y agoSteve Yegge says every programmer should be a fast, accurate, touch-typist: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirtiest-little-secret.html I couldn't find his minimum-speed prescription, just now, but he does say 70 words a minute is easily obtainable for anyone with two hands.
- jarek 16y agoYeah, I disagree with this post a lot. Unless you're typing out Java factories by hand with no IDE support, any speed approaching touch-typing is going to do you fine. 70 words per minute is not necessary.
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