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I type pretty fast, but never learned touch typing. What WPM's do touch typists typically attain? This is a touch typist at 190 WPM, which I think is rare. h
by wenc 2y ago
I type pretty fast, but never learned touch typing.
What WPM's do touch typists typically attain?
This is a touch typist at 190 WPM, which I think is rare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jBTKgobGWw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jBTKgobGWw
- janalsncm 2y agoThe article says 70+ wpm is typical. I think I’m on the low end of that. But wpm kind of misses the point. Typing isn’t a programmer’s job, it is a means to doing their job. If typing requires conscious effort it will take away from everything else.
- ehnto 2y agoI "touch type" at 120-140, it doesn't help me program, at all. I got that fast because I spent my teens in chatrooms, but it's not homerow style, it's any finger anywhere at any time hover touch typing. This was a real issue when I transitioned to a split keyboard, because my hands were used to crossing sides. My typing speed took a hit, but again, zero impact to programming. Probably helps when writing comments in tickets though.
- janalsncm 2y agoI guess another way of putting it is that if we randomized the letters on your keyboard so that typing required conscious effort, would it change your productivity? For me I’m pretty sure it would be a big distraction.
- ehnto 2y agoI kind of did do that when switching from the full layout keyboard to a 58 key layout, it was indeed big a distraction for a few weeks as I learned where things were. The accuracy was the big slowdown, I was mistyping a lot, rather than slowly pressing the right keys.
- Zetaphor 2y ago190 is certainly at the high end and probably in the range of competitive typing speeds (yes this is a thing). I personally average 120 which I think is the upper range for the more casual (but still serious) touch typists.