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I can type at a decent pace as long as it's text ; I learnt to type on gtypist . (I haven't completed all of them just the basics and some drills) . Typing for programming is a whole lot different , and I find myself fumbling around numbers and special characters often

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You may be interested in typing.io, which is specifically for code. I don't think it'll help much with numbers though. Personally, I've never gotten the hang of touch typing the number row, so I use the numpad instead.

I switched from typing.io to https://github.com/jankrepl/mltype. Highly customisable. I run it from a bash script in multiple steps with custom length. First special characters only, then numbers, letters, go and finally rust. I do this on a daily basis just for a few minutes and I could greatly improve my typing speed.

Similarly, unless you're copying code from a magazine like the good old days.

Writing code is limited by the pace of you being able to think up sound effective code.

I can't recall where I saw it but believe I heard a rule of thumb of only 40wpm pretty much mazing out most people's ability to write code.

You'll get to your ten or twelve lines of code per day real fast then. What you gonna do with the rest of your time?

Reference: The Internet

(For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/966800)

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Sure, code written (and rewritten) (and deleted) versus net output. But maybe be more thoughtful, do less than 40wpm, and write a better solution overall.

That's a good point!

I think the point is 40wpm allows you to code. If you wrote at 10 lines per day, 80 char per line works out to 0.0333wpm.

You'll forget what you're doing by the time get a word out.

As in once you hit 40wpm you won't be slowed by your typing as you try to code.

(WPM is characters per minute over 5, i.e. assumes average word is 5 chars long).

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