I only recently learned about touch-typing. And I plan to get into it, but I can hardly say it's a big deal.
Most of our time is spent reading code. I'm a pretty slow typist myself. Folks with disabilities that dramatically reduce their typing proficiency still make great coders.
I'm definitely seeing that folks view fast/no-look typing as a very low-level optimization, if they see it as useful at all.
I've read about people who use screen readers, and have them set to read back the page at eg. 5x speed. To me, that's basically "touch-reading" versus "normal-reading": I wonder if that community would view "touch-reading" as an essential step, or a maybe-optimization.
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I only recently learned about touch-typing. And I plan to get into it, but I can hardly say it's a big deal.
Most of our time is spent reading code. I'm a pretty slow typist myself. Folks with disabilities that dramatically reduce their typing proficiency still make great coders.
I'm definitely seeing that folks view fast/no-look typing as a very low-level optimization, if they see it as useful at all.
I've read about people who use screen readers, and have them set to read back the page at eg. 5x speed. To me, that's basically "touch-reading" versus "normal-reading": I wonder if that community would view "touch-reading" as an essential step, or a maybe-optimization.