It's an extreme minority opinion among programmers that typing speed matters, but I started writing again recently and I feel like the argument in https://danluu.com/productivity-velocity/ is still obviously true.
wc has the source for my last post at 20k words. At a hypothetical 100wpm, that's 3h20m of typing time. I often do two passes and totally re-write it, so it's really 7h40m.
If I were to type at 50wpm, that would add a huge amount of writing time, both in absolute and %-age terms.
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