Ask HN: How Do I Learn to Type?

Re:Ask HN: How Do I Learn to Type? by cabirum on Monday May 18, 2015 @03:52PM (#9566494)

Is touch typing all that useful for developers? Writing code involves using special characters frequently (){}[]_%^&$#, and most IDEs are designed around reducing the amount of text you need to type. Am I wrong thinking touch typing is not designed for coding?

Also, http://phoboslab.org/ztype/

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Re:Ask HN: How Do I Learn to Type? by cphrmky_ on Monday May 18, 2015 @05:08PM (#9566879)

Touch typing isn't "designed" for anything, it's not "designed" at all really. It's the idiom/phrase we use to describe typing without looking at the keyboard.

And yes, it's extremely useful for developers of software. Not all developers use an IDE by the way, and even if they did, autocomplete is not same as knowing how to type properly.

I find OPs consternation a little bit odd though. When I realized I was still hunt-and-peck typing at a point where it was a little bit embarrassing as well as being a hindrance to my daily activities, I just stopped looking at the keyboard. Problem solved in about two weeks.

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Re:Ask HN: How Do I Learn to Type? by mstechfreak22 on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:04AM (#9568475)

I agree. However, if you want to feel better when touch typing, I suggest you to use more ergonomic keyboard layouts than qwerty, for example, dvorak or colemak. It might be useful to use some typing tutor to make the transition. For example, http://www.typingstudy.com

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Re:Ask HN: How Do I Learn to Type? by Nadya on Monday May 18, 2015 @05:53PM (#9567084)

Have you ever written documentation for your code? :)

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