The more time spent typing, the less you have for thinking and debugging. Hypothetically, someone with a hunt and peck technique might be 40/60. Someone with a

The more time spent typing, the less you have for thinking and debugging. Hypothetically, someone with a hunt and peck technique might be 40/60. Someone with a self taught but undisciplined technique could be 60/40. Someone with standard touch typing might be 70/30. Someone who does regular typing drills could be 80/20. Given the thinking and debugging is where are value comes from, the typing is just how we make it tangible, by improving your typing you are improving your value. I see this comment on almost every HN and r/programming thread about typing. It always puts an idea in my head of a programmer who has to stop and ponder between every keystroke.