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I wish I was a coding god such that the limiting factor was how quickly I could send commands via hotkeys or the interface or whatever. Hell, there are moments

I wish I was a coding god such that the limiting factor was how quickly I could send commands via hotkeys or the interface or whatever. Hell, there are moments that I have to sit there carefully planning out in my mind the sequence of actions I'll need to take to accomplish some task. The rest of you out there, you're trying to shave 1400ms off your score by being able to use the homerow as if they were arrow keys? Fuck me.

tincholio 3y ago
It's not about speed, it's about ergonomics. Minimizing finger movement is a good thing.
TonyStr 3y ago
There are times when you think, plan and read code, and there are times when you just write. Getting fast and accurate at typing allows you to think more freely as you no longer have to think about the individual characters that make up the words you're typing
eviks 3y ago
If only there existed other factors besides speed that would make more convenient keyboard design better...
- rf15 3y ago
  Agreed. Also, if only there already existed (for more than half a century too) hard- and software specialised for typing speed that you could use instead of the general purpose system you have available on every computer... Truly a horrible underdeveloped world we live in, that we have to hack together our configs and code to this degree and having to watch as no wheel in existence can ever be as good as the one I just now built in five minutes. (terribly sorry for the bitter sarcasm, it's a pain point of mine)
000ooo000 3y ago
Do you ever go to sit down in front of the tele to watch a movie, and right as you get comfortable, you realise "Bollocks, I forgot to turn that light off"? So you get up, turn off the light, sit back down, and then remember "ah I left my nice warm beverage out of reach". If you are like me, each one of those moments is like a little mental kick in the groin, and that's kind of what it feels like when I reach for the mouse to move a window or click a button I can't just activate with the KB, or when I have to spam Ctrl+RArrow to move across a line. I like to minimise those mental kicks to my groin. I'm not so fussed on speed, I just don't like feeling inefficient in that way.
lawn 3y ago
Maybe the timing is taken from thin air, but +1s is actually very noticeable (it will feel super laggy if an interface has this delay). And if you do this 1000 times a day (but probably more) you'll remove so much annoyance and it just feels better, more comfortable and at least for me it's easier to enter and stay in the flow state if annoyances like these are kept to the minimum.

tincholio 3y ago

It's not about speed, it's about ergonomics. Minimizing finger movement is a good thing.

TonyStr 3y ago

There are times when you think, plan and read code, and there are times when you just write. Getting fast and accurate at typing allows you to think more freely as you no longer have to think about the individual characters that make up the words you're typing

eviks 3y ago

If only there existed other factors besides speed that would make more convenient keyboard design better...

rf15 3y ago
Agreed. Also, if only there already existed (for more than half a century too) hard- and software specialised for typing speed that you could use instead of the general purpose system you have available on every computer... Truly a horrible underdeveloped world we live in, that we have to hack together our configs and code to this degree and having to watch as no wheel in existence can ever be as good as the one I just now built in five minutes. (terribly sorry for the bitter sarcasm, it's a pain point of mine)

000ooo000 3y ago

Do you ever go to sit down in front of the tele to watch a movie, and right as you get comfortable, you realise "Bollocks, I forgot to turn that light off"? So you get up, turn off the light, sit back down, and then remember "ah I left my nice warm beverage out of reach". If you are like me, each one of those moments is like a little mental kick in the groin, and that's kind of what it feels like when I reach for the mouse to move a window or click a button I can't just activate with the KB, or when I have to spam Ctrl+RArrow to move across a line. I like to minimise those mental kicks to my groin. I'm not so fussed on speed, I just don't like feeling inefficient in that way.

lawn 3y ago

Maybe the timing is taken from thin air, but +1s is actually very noticeable (it will feel super laggy if an interface has this delay). And if you do this 1000 times a day (but probably more) you'll remove so much annoyance and it just feels better, more comfortable and at least for me it's easier to enter and stay in the flow state if annoyances like these are kept to the minimum.