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Do Programmers Actually Need Touch Typing?
Touch typing (also called touch type or touch keyboarding) is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. (Wikipedia) After about 20 years of programming with hunt and peck style shamelessly, I decided to learn touch typing a few months ago. I'll talk about why I decided to learn touch typing at the end of this post, but I first want to spend time on the critical question: "Do Programmers Actually Need Touch Typing?
After about 20 years of programming with hunt and peck style shamelessly, I decided to learn touch typing a few months ago. When you are still an unexperienced driver just turning the radio on while driving feels very dangerous, you don't want to take your eyes from the road even for a second. Just today I noticed how my attitude towards using the internal IM tool in my company changed recently as I learned touch typing.
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