The ability to type 30+ WPM. This is a pretty low bar to cross. About half the people I have worked with when faced with the task of writing a 40 character lin

The ability to type 30+ WPM. This is a pretty low bar to cross. About half the people I have worked with when faced with the task of writing a 40 character line of code will do something like find a similar line and copy and paste it, and then change a character or 2, and then go find a 6 character variable that they need to type and instead of just typing the 6 characters, they highlight another copy of the variable with the mouse and then copy and paste the 6 characters. The whole thing is really frustrating to watch when you're pair programming with them. I'd be surprised if they're getting more than 10 WPM through all of this. It's got to be a huge mental burden for them as well; I mean, getting a few characters on the screen shouldn't be a mental exercise, you shouldn't be thinking about where you can find a similar line you can copy/paste, and you shouldn't be thinking about where else you can copy/paste variable names from. Getting a line of code onto the screen shouldn't be a creative endeavor. I know being able to type 100 WPM isn't a great advantage when programming, but a minimum of typing skills, a mere 20 or 30 WPM, is important.