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Are tasks like responding to emails and adding comments limited by typing speed ? I would have guessed most typing tasks aside from copying text are limited by
by j7ake 5y ago
Are tasks like responding to emails and adding comments limited by typing speed ? I would have guessed most typing tasks aside from copying text are limited by knowing what to type.
- toast0 5y agoSometimes, yes. If your brain gets too far ahead of your writing, then you need to pause thinking or you miss stuff. If this happens to you a lot, you might benefit from training your typing speed up. (or writing, or dictating, or whatever)
- snet0 5y agoI think it's frequently the case that you determine what you're going to type in a block-wise fashion. You know roughly what the next paragraph/sentence should look like, and then "speak" through your typing. If you type faster, you will almost certainly "speak" faster in this way.
- sellyme 5y agoPretty much all of the time I'm typing natural language (chat apps, emails, writing this comment here) I'm going to be limited more by my typing speed (~120WPM) than by the speed at which I can think of the words I want to type. A pretty trivial demonstration of this is that I can talk much faster than I can type, and I would expect that you can too.
- Oreb 5y agoI can talk much faster than I can type, but I have much higher standards for precision and language quality when writing. When I write in natural language, I almost always carefully read through my message once or twice before sending. I don’t think doubling my typing speed (currently around 80 wpm, I guess) would save much time.
- gxs 5y agoThere's a time and place for everything. Sometimes that level of precision is required, sometimes it's not.