Comment by skydhash

I think my currently average code writing speed is 1 keyword per hour or something as nearly all my time coding is spent either reading the doc (to check my assumptions) or copy-pasting another block of code I have. The very short bust of writing code like I would write prose is done so rarely I don't even bother remembering them.

I've never written boilerplate. I copy them from old projects (the first time was not boilerplate, it was learning the technology) or other files, and do some fast editing (vim is great for this).