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Discussion on: Do programmers have to have a high WPM ? / Mine is 53 WPM, what is yours ?

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Sean Williams

I just did a quick test and scored 101. I could probably do better, but there were grammatical errors in the test that threw me off.

Anyway, I doubt typing speed matters too much with programming. For one thing, typing quickly is more about writing full sentences, while programming is very—stylized. That is, I doubt many people can quickly type block-structured text, and some of the key combinations are a bit gnarly, especially < and >.

And as others have said, and I definitely agree with, you spend much more time thinking about the right thing to type than you do typing it.

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Bek Brace

wow !! this is a beast level, Sean !
Well, my perspective was with higher WPM you will be more productive, I think I did not formulate the question properly, but you got my point :)