Comment by kamaal

>>I've not once held a job where my keyboard speed had a noticeable effect on my productivity.

Features like vim/emacs macros do way than increasing the speed of accomplishing a task. They are a way of converting O(n^k) manual tasks to a O(1) task. These are ways of doing lots of work in fewer steps.

This is if your work involves lots of text heavy lifting tasks.

Speed many times is just a unintended but a welcome side effect. Real value is in not doing manual drudgery.