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But I am quite happy with it I don’t have to waste my time typing. I don’t have to waste my time improving my raw typing speed. I do solid touch typing 60WPM w
by ozim 3y ago
But I am quite happy with it I don’t have to waste my time typing. I don’t have to waste my time improving my raw typing speed.
I do solid touch typing 60WPM writing plain text. With code completion and linting it easily goes twice as fast writing code.
- nine_k 3y agoThat's cool. I'm unironically interested, how do you manage to think at such speed?
- globular-toast 3y agoProgramming is mostly thinking interspersed with a bit of typing. Nobody thinks as they type. The typing bit is just getting your abstract idea of what the program should do into the computer.
- camgunz 3y agoI'm ~120WPM and a vim user, and yeah the main thing is how little time I actually spend typing. It helps me keep my focus on what I'm doing. I think other tools (like the ones people are mentioning) do stuff like this for people: autocomplete, copilot, formatters, etc. I also use formatters and linters, and my autocomplete is "be strict about conventions, look up the actual meanings of words", which makes me touchy about conventions haha.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 3y agoI type at 100WPM and that's usually fast enough for programming but not always. Sometimes you just know exactly what needs to be written, maybe because you've written similar things before.
- ozim 3y agoI don’t do it simultaneously, when I do know what I want to code it just takes me less time writing it out so sooner I go back to thinking what’s next.