Comment by klibertp
10 years ago
Measure your writing speed. Aim for 70-80 WPM. If you get that speed then it's a) enough and b) it doesn't matter at all if you "touch type" properly or have invented your own typing system.
10 years ago
Measure your writing speed. Aim for 70-80 WPM. If you get that speed then it's a) enough and b) it doesn't matter at all if you "touch type" properly or have invented your own typing system.
The advantage of touch typing is on a good keyboard/desk/etc you can do it 10 hours a day for 30 years without wrecking your hands. That said, most programmers don't actually type that much so it's not nearly as important.
I bemoan the death (or near-extinction) of text-input games. I learned entirely on my own how to touch type by playing classic Sierra adventure games and spending a ton of time in DOS. I never would have done that if I had gotten into computing a few years later with the transition to mouse-based UIs.
Definitely same here. I feel I was fortunate that my parents were poor graduate students. As a result, I learned my formative computing skills on DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1 at a time when respectable citizens were packing 486DX4s - Pentium 90s.
MMO's took over that space. I learned how to touch type by playing Runescape.
I use an IDE and tab completion most of the day.