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a good programmer is almost certainly a fast typer

of course a fast typer does necessarily make a good programmer

Yes and no. Most of my stuff is automated, auto completion and micro code gen. My thinking is the bottleneck, never typing speed. Measured it last summer a few times trying to beat my daughter and I think it was about 60wpm. For coding if I know what I'm doing its probably 30wpm in my editor.

Yeah, these days, IDEs like JetBrains are powerful enough that you can pull off significant chunks of refactors with a few right clicks (any sort of renaming, moving of methods, or deletion of code)

Typing will get you places faster, but some of the most productive tools we have don’t rely on it at all.

do you write documentation, though?

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