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Just did the test at the site mentioned in the survey question. 76WPM @ 96% accuracy. Not bad though I think I could do better with a few more cups of coffee inside me 
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I don't touch type, at least not classically. My hands are almost constantly moving, rather than resting on the so-called 'home row'. Sometimes I use my left hand to type characters such as H and J and the right to cover D and F on occasions. This isn't deliberate - it's simply how I've learned to type. I've typed almost all of this post without looking at the keyboard (actually, for some of it I was staring into space, not looking at the screen or the keyboard). And I tend to type my own emphasis directly with < and > characters.
What this does mean is that I'm usually able to alternate hands rather than using the same finger to hit two different keys.
It does end up being some form of two steps forward, one back, because I do make a lot of mistakes. Not important on computers, because you simply erase the errors - there's no permanent record of the error. Oddly, I seem to know when I've made a mistake before I actually read back what I just wrote - my hand moves immediately to Backspace and hits it. I wonder whether I've learned to type some words by mistyping and correcting them?
Having said that, in programming the think time (what am I going to type?) far outweighs the time taken to actually type the text. Indeed, the same is true for anyone who's not a copyist. Therefore, overall typing speed isn't really an issue. The important thing is to be able to get your thoughts down on screen before you forget what it was you wanted to type.
Type a few words, spend a little time grasping for the next one, then continue.
Part of this could be because I learned to type on an old rubber-key Spectrum, which required quite a bit of pressure to correctly register a keypress.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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Hey, not bad for someone who never took a typing course 
Sonork 100.11743 Chicken Little
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
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Not bad. I never took one either, but after 20+ years of using a keyboard, I can spook fellow-developers out by looking straight at them while I carry on typing for at least another sentence. It's even more impressive when they read what I've typed and can't find any errors in it (the English, not the code )
Steve S
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