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What do you think Linus Torvalds' typing speed is? https://youtu.be/S5S9LIT-hdc?t=3 https://youtu.be/S5S9LIT-hdc?t=3

• kamikazechaser 4y ago
  Low 50 if we go by the video. He might obviously be in the 80+ range irl.
  • MonkeyClub 4y ago
    He’s also looking at the keyboard, so maybe he’s unfamiliar with it. Perhaps when shooting the video they thought, hey, we need that cool clicky sound, and had him use a mechanical keyboard. But in all, he types fast enough to write Linux. Typing speed is important for typists. For programmers, I’d say that even a 50-80 wpm rate is adequate for getting your thoughts down on the file and off to the compiler.