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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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Jean-Michel Plourde

WPM is like LoC: very poor measure.

I try to improve my WPM because it has the side effect of knowing my keyboard like the bottom of my pocket. I have a split keyboard with multiple layers: I want to test my layout as much as possible, tweak it where I see the weaknesses and make the most used keys highly available.

The goal to all of this getting my typing out of the way of my thinking. I want to have ideas and let my hands rely on muscle memory.