My typing speed is not that good, its about 40 words per minute. But there are people who can type at more than 100 words per minute.

What is your typing speed? Does typing speed really matter?

  • Dessalines
    10•3 years ago

    One of the best coders I knew was a peck-typer, index fingers only, and he still wrote books of code.

    Unless you’re a court stenographer or something, its not that necessary.

    That said I’m still obsessed with alternative keyboard layouts, and I’m on my 3rd one now. They won’t necessarily make you type faster, but def a lot more comfortably.

    • @k_o_t@lemmy.ml
      3•3 years ago

      One of the best coders I knew was a peck-typer, index fingers only,

      there must be some interesting back story to this 😅🤔

      • Dessalines
        0•3 years ago

        You can get passable in a week, and back up to your usual speed in around 2 months. Don’t get me wrong its a difficult process, and it takes discipline to not revert back, so a lot of people give up after a week or so.

        The best advice I can give is to switch, then go through the tutorials at typing.com or anywhere else, with the new layout, every day. It does a lot of repetitive exercises to get the new keys wired into your muscle memory.