I’m not a touch typer, but I am a pretty fast (8-finger or so) typer after 20 years of keyboarding, and I don’t actually have to look at the keys much. Of course, most of the kind of typing that I do is quite different from actual written English – it tends to involve a lot more {} () ; kind of things.<\/p>\n
Anyway, today a co-worker and I were sitting at the same PC doing an exercise for a course we’re taking, and I was doing the typing. He remarked that I was a really fast typer. The exercise was easy, so I pretty much had it all in my brain – I was just reading from the internal script, as it were, and the fingers were just the output mechanism. (The internal script, btw, is not laid out in a linear fashion. I write my code the same way everyone does – skeleton followed by bits of body.)<\/p>\n
It dawned on me that this is the way I do most of my programming – once I have the idea figured out, I just have to send the data to my fingers. And this is why I have to type quickly – to do otherwise seems absurdly slow when the work is clearly already done<\/em> and just needs to get into the computer. It also explains why I get almost all my work done in about 3 hours a day. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not a touch typer, but I am a pretty fast (8-finger or so) typer after 20 years of keyboarding, and I don’t actually have to look at the keys much. Of course, most of the kind of typing that I do is quite different from actual written English –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}