Anecdata, for sure, but only a few of the best programmers I ever knew were touch typists. In another comment here I related the story of someone who was produc

Anecdata, for sure, but only a few of the best programmers I ever knew were touch typists. In another comment here I related the story of someone who was productive yet painful to watch. His typing speed had no bearing on the fact that he was the nearly always the most reliable and productive developer on his team. He was a physics PhD who learned to code in FORTRAN in the 1970's, so he was definitely of another time.