Let’s do some calculations:Ītwood once claimed that he could reach even 150 wpm. It’s so obvious that you cannot attribute a programmer’s success to his typing speed. There have been several arguments against Atwood’s view since then. Now after thirteen years since that article, does typing speed matter for programmers, still? And if so, how much? Typing speed and productivity in coding When you’re a fast, efficient typist, you spend less time between thinking that thought and expressing it in code. He also added a programmer should not be taken seriously if he types in the hunt-and-peck style: He even said that if you want to become a great programmer, you must first learn to be a fast typist. Does typing speed matter for coding? In 2008, Jeff Atwood wrote a quite controversial blog post on this in which he listed typing as one of the essential skills in programming.
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