Not so much typing ability as actual typing output. And this was supposed to be only half-serious :)
What I meant was that it's better to spend some time solving the problem in your head, rather than bang out line after line of bad code. So, in essence, the typing speed is not the bottleneck of coding productivity.
Of course, a proper study on this would be a better argument than just me making stuff up.
I, for one, can type almost 80wpm and am dumb as a rock. I can never solve logic puzzles, and struggle with debugging when writing one-page scripts in Python.
Re:Google Docs vs manual typewriter
by alanthonyc on Thursday December 31, 2009 @05:27PM
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Upvoted, for making me chuckle.
But I'm pretty sure that typing speed and programming ability are not-correlated, most definitely not inversely related.
"Correlation does not equal causation"
Also, I really should learn to type better. This though got me googling. I found some discussion on the topic:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=952745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510087
Also, I seem to remember someone posting a webapp typing tutor. Does anyone remember the name?
That's an...interesting claim. Why do you think typing ability is negatively correlated with intelligence?