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Hello friends. So this morning in my discord we had a little bit of a
conversation about touch typing. One of my friends there asked if theyshould get into Vim and they were thinking that Vim you can move a littlefaster and well I think that's that can be true.I think there's a little bit of an illusion to moving quickly just because
you're using a special text editor or editor or a VIM like key bindingsthing. I think you can get just as fast without them. And I've been on bothsides, but yeah, andNow I'm not using them keen bitings But anyway I think,we kind of came around to touch typing was the thing that was selling themdown.They could improve their speed if they just were able to type a little
faster. And so I thought yeah, I just got me thinking this morning abouthow valuable it can be to be able to type very quickly. I think most of ushave been in a situation where the interface to the computer wasn't fastenough for our brain where we knew exactly what we wanted and it was just amatter of getting what we wanted into our hands andInto the keyboard andinto the computer.And so in particular, sometimes I say hey if you aren't sure about which
direction to go with some API or something then focus on building bothversions and choose which one you dislike the least is kind of my approachto things and so what it's it's not without cost to do that like it doescost to build it both ways, but if you like have it in your mind of whatthose ways are going to look like and and it's not like a huge.Investment of mental energy to do it then the investment just comes down to
how quickly can you type and you can reduce that investment by learning totype quicker. And so if you are not at right now I took a typing test andin a kind of real world sort of test.I'm at around 88 words per minute and so I'm a pretty fast typer or typist
however you want to say that. If you're not at around that pace then let mejust tell you that the human body is capable of really amazing things ourbrains are are capable of amazing things and you can probably work your wayup.To to much quicker than you are And I would encourage you to put some
intentional practice into that if you want to improve your typing speed.Now, there's a lot more to coding than just the typing speed. So don'tworry about that. I spend way more time thinking than I do typing but Iknow situations where typing is the bottleneck it's really frustrating ifyou're not very fast at it.So I'd encourage you to give it some intentional practice. Anyway, I hope
that's helpful and interesting I will add a link to a the typing test thatI took so you can take it yourself.Have a good day.
