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I agree with you. If your bottleneck in development is typing speed you're doing something terribly wrong.

If it's a "lines of code" contest, then sure, learn to type fast, but if it's about producing good concise code I don't think typing speed makes much difference. If you want to program enough, you'll naturally become fast enough.

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> If it's a "lines of code" contest, then sure, learn to type fast, but if it's about producing good concise code I don't think typing speed makes much difference.

In my experience, good, concise code is rarely written on the first pass. Also (and unfortunately), more often than not people who don't type well are unwilling to spend time on rewrites...

Good points.

If your bottleneck in development is typing speed you're doing something terribly wrong.

No, you just think faster than you can type - but liberal use of macros, snippets, syntax-directed editing, code completion, etc. can help.

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