Comment by wokwokwok

Yes, quite so, but it probably has almost nothing to do with absolute typing speed.

There’s a marginal difference between an editor where you can type quickly and one where you can only type fast.

We’re not talking about the difference between 300 wpm and 10 wpm.

I bet if you measured, you would see, at best, a marginal difference between the speed of input between editors.

Ie. The point is that, that marginal difference probably has no meaningful difference in your productivity.

What makes the difference is probably how it affects, for example; flow.

If your flow is interrupted by the editor hanging or waiting for some bs lang server lag, or having to update a vim plugin, you are being interrupted.

…and studies show that interruptions do have a meaningful impact on productivity.

This is why editors that let you type fast do not improve productivity for everyone. Some people get flow in other ways.

Fast typing is not a universal metric for productivity, and it’s absolutely a diminishing returns thing to optimise for.

It’s probably fair to say that if you have a moderately fast editor, going to a super fast editor makes no difference to most people.

…but going from an editor that freezes or forces you to spend your time upgrading plugins, probably does; because interruptions like that are probably universal flow destroyers.