I feel like I type fast, I don't touch type correctly, but I've had blank keyboards since around 2001 when my teenaged self decided to imitate that scene in Hac

I feel like I type fast, I don't touch type correctly, but I've had blank keyboards since around 2001 when my teenaged self decided to imitate that scene in Hackers (1994) where he spray paints his keyboard.. I decided on a cool chrome paint.. I didn't really think about this decision until after the paint had dried and I connected the keyboard to the computer again and I realized.. That I didn't know where anything was.. Took a while to catch back up, but in the end, I ended up pretty proficient, and I've not ever wanted lettering back on my keyboards. On an English typing test (not my first language) I sit around 100 wps, which is not high, but sufficient that I don't get annoyed waiting for the words to appear on the screen while I type, it's about the same speed as I can construct somewhat coherent sentences. The hardest part about typing tests for me is reading the text, understanding it and (paradoxically) spelling the words correctly as I both look at them and type them. It's quite a lot easier and faster for me to type free-text like I do now. For programmers? Yes, for any computer user, one should be proficient at using the keyboard, otherwise, you will be very limited in your communication, especially with other people, this is a problem. Documentation, comments, log messages, emails and chats become limited, and it gets quite annoying to stand behind you while you hunt and peck your way through a simple sentence.. Also, learn how to use the nav cluster, I get ticks waiting when people use key-repetition or the mouse to jump around the line. Learn to use home/end and pageup/down along with whatever jumping your editor can do.