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I learned touch typing on a typewriter in high school, but I never used it. After 25 years in the industry, I know that a typing speed over 30-40 wpm just isn't
by kstenerud 6y ago
I learned touch typing on a typewriter in high school, but I never used it. After 25 years in the industry, I know that a typing speed over 30-40 wpm just isn't important for software development. Typing occupies maybe 10-15% of my total software development time.
- Timpy 6y agoThe sysadmin at my company is notoriously terrible at written communication, especially his code. He uses unintelligible variable names; sometimes it's so bad you would think you're looking at minified code. When I was lamenting about reading his code to the senior dev he told me, "Oh yeah, sysadmin is a two finger typist". Ever since then I've correlated his code issues with his typing styles. One time over some after work beers he was criticizing the touch typing classes he was forced to take in college, saying it did not improve his wpm and he quickly resumed his own style. Now that we're in quarantine and most of our communication is written, I think about him facing head down toward his keyboard rapidly two-finger-striking away while I stare at the "now typing" bubble next to his name in chat.
- kstenerud 6y agoSure, if someone is typing < 30wpm it gets tedious to chat, but bad code readability comes from not caring about others rather than typing speed.