Comment by utopiah

If you copy/paste code from a teaching book, you will probably not learn as well as if you type it.

Typing itself is irrelevant, it is the timing spent, even if only seconds, pondering at what each word or syntactic element is and why use it.

Being slower does not automatically make you learn better, focus on the learning is what makes the difference.

If you don't have the opportunity to learn, the time to actually think, then a faster tool is not helping.

TL;DR: what matters is why you are doing something, is it solely to get the task done or is it primary to learn, or both?