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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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Bek Brace

Jesus !!!
And you have the same WPM with all keyboards that you are working with or you have a preferred keyboard on which you get this "monster level WPM" ?
Agreed, maybe i did not mean have to have, but I wrote this and shared my experience as I am a programmer and I have a low WPM 50 more or less, so i wanted to know if i should be ashamed of myself or not 😆

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codebytesfl

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't see this. I actually don't have the same WPM with all keyboards. I am a bit slower on the keyboard at my office (Apple Magic Keyboard), and faster on my keyboard at home. At home I have a custom built QK65 with tactile switches.

I honestly am not sure why the difference, but my home keyboard "feels" better, so somehow I type better lol. My wife has some cheap keyboard from amazon and I am significantly slower on that one than anything. Again, not really sure behind the science of why, but it is something I have noticed. It's easier to type faster on a quality keyboard.

You definitely should not be ashamed or anything. 50 WPM is still faster than the majority of the population, and I rarely can utilize that fast WPM as I use code snippets and stuff all the time!