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I like to type (Specially on keyboards who make 'tap' sound when I press key (older keyboards)) , now a days, fingers are so keyboard handy that I does not need to see at the keys while type and does not want to concentrate on spellings/typos also, fingers are just moving across keyboard and type it smoothly (Anyways, if I spelled it inaccurate then also editors are smart enough to correct it  )
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The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Who types in this day and age, Cortana will do your typing for you (I have no idea if this is true) or is it Siri the desktop version or Dragon Dictate.
Plug in an AI and it will do your thinking for you as well, no mote typing, no more thinking.
How fast can you scream at you computer - now try it in an open plan office, the clacky keyboards are bad enough.
Embarrassing, I still hunt and peck after 30+ years 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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... all the time and can make more than a hundred words /minute.
Just saying 
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0) Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V
1) Templates
2) Code-stash
3) Autocomplete
n) etc.,
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It depends, if I am writing something I find interesting and have all the requirements. Then fast, otherwise. Meh, don't care and can take forever. 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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While I got only 46 words per minute with only one error (good enough), I think the most used key was backspace. Perhaps, if we measure that...
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I'm a regular woodpecker. He he he hehe.
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The more I code, the more my typing skills suffer. Typing a copy of a text in English is a lot different than actually typing instructions with passed variables, declarations, and terminated sequences. When you are coding, you are typing a foreign language (no matter how well you know it, no matter how comfortable you are that the code is speaking to you) and you have to reference prior code to make certain you have the variables with correct spelling, the routines have proper capitalization... in my job, I both type code and write documentation, so my writing versus coding skills are constantly being challenged. Coding is more like taking dictation to the keyboard, Where the next word, the next letter, is not necessarily obvious.
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Yeah, but Intellisense completes most of the words I type, artificially improving my speed. YMMD.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I did 42 wmp in the typing test but as i voted I still peck with a couple of fingers. I just hope my typing speed is not the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything.
- Leonardo
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I like writing little and short code which is running smooth. So it is more the problem of developing an intelligent architecture than writing lots of code which needs bunches of commentars and bug fixes or work arounds. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I thought I'd be much slower than that... And to be honest, as I don't touch type, copying from on-screen text is slower than typing out of my head...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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"hunt-and-peck using a couple of fingers."
Oh, good think I read the whole statement.
Where is the option for hunt-and-peck using my beak?
Also did you just get this idea watching Linus Tech Tips latest video where he was testing keyboards using an in browser typing test.
Even better, was that I assumed the putting in "typing test" into Goolge would show me the test. Dum Dum Dum, it was actuly a Bing! test.
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Call me weird, but I look at keyboard when coding (not screen) and am an extremely quick 6 fingers (4 right hand 2 left -usually <shift> or <ctrl>) when coding.
Whereas, to copy from book or screen I have to take longer.
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Way back in "Junior High School" (8th Grade) I was put in a typing class. Real old-style mechanical typewriters. The kind where the keys get stuck if you're too fast (not a problem, then).
The key to speed, for years now, is to never look at the keyboard - all what believe they call muscle memory.
So it's really fast. Except when some ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) 'ing application changes things for me, so I have to stop and undo it.
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If I am mindlessly copying printed text in a decent font, then I am 65-70+. If I have to actually think while I type, such as when I am writing or working on development, it drops pretty drastically.
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I tested at 43 for in a "free text" situation. If I am "pattern typing", such as code constructs; that number goes up into the 80+ range.
Reading through the other messages, I noticed a few vary by keyboard type. I'll just say you are not alone. When it comes to a tablet/phone/laptop keyboard, you can call me Mr Hunt-n-Peck.
The first time I had a cubicle was in the early 00's. The keyboard was the Microsoft Internet Keyboard. I kept it when they shut down and have purchased another and two of the "pro" versions- so everywhere I type has the same setup so I don't have that issue. And everywhere has MS Trackball Optical too.
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Bzzzzap!
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I think when taking a typing class I was up to about 50; but for sustained writing - code or text where wording/grammar quality matters (most of what I write these days) when I go faster I end up burning most of the gains in adjusting the wording via edits.
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Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Took test just to answer this question
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I can type fast enough.
Had a damaged Ulnar nerve a while back which made typing very interesting (could not feel my ring and small fingers on the right hand). Some of the damage still exists to this day, but muscle memory helps with the errors, as I still can't feel the Enter key when I hit it.
If you are coding and you are typing more than 30 words a minute, then I am very impressed. Just saying...
modified 15-Oct-18 8:58am.
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43 WPM
Errors 2 mistyped words
Adjusted Speed 41 WPM
Good, for that the text was in english and I actually had to double check on typos a few times.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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I always ranked near the top of speed back when I had typing classes in high school (do they still do that?) so it's nice to see I haven't slowed down that much. After years writing code, straight text doesn't feel as fluid as it once did though. First time through the test and I hit an adjusted speed of 90 WPM with 95% accuracy.
...never send to know for whom the code faults; if faults for thee.
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If I am typing code then I am fairly slow as I have to check variables names and every bracket is correct, every semi-colon is actually a semi-colon, etc.
If I am working on my book or other "pure text" writing - such as this message, then I am a lot faster.
I never learned to touch type but I can use most of my fingers most of the time for a fairly decent speed.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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