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Re:Typing Practice for Programmers by monfrere on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:20PM (#13516744)
Is typing speed really the bottleneck when programming? For me, it's definitely either the speed of thought or the time it takes to look up names, interfaces, etc.
Re:Typing Practice for Programmers by Kenji on Sunday January 29, 2017 @05:26PM (#13517151)
No, what you experience is normal. Typing speed is never the bottleneck, unless you write some boilerplate code - which, frankly, is something you should avoid and automate anyway. As a rough estimate, I spend more than half of my time drafting, either with pen and paper or in my head, and then half of the remaining time researching. Only a tiny fraction of time is pure typing.