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I'd originally placed by speed at 30-40 wpm, but having done that test, I was suprised to find that all these years programming hasn't slowed down my typing speed that much. 
I Dream of Absolute Zero
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// Steve McLenithan
Cluelessnes:
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yeah the skill is very essential, may be your are slow typer or fast but the skill is very important..
I have seen ppl with lot of experience in development still hunt and peck the keyboard... they look so silly while doing so.
I feel not the typing speed is important but the skill.
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I feel not the typing speed is important but the skill.
Depends on what you define as "skill"
I'm not _that_ slow (50 wpm) with my 7 finger system 
Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
(doesn't work on NT)
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Dominik Reichl wrote:
what you define as "skill"
not hunt and peck, not even fast hunt n peck.
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Personally, I can't type at all. I'm a horrible Typist.
But you know what? My software works. Does yours?
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Heywood wrote:
Personally, I can't type at all. I'm a horrible Typist.
no problem, no one is perfect.
Heywood wrote:
But you know what? My software works. Does yours?
I never questioned that anybodys software would not work just because he/she didnt know typing..
But believe me non-typist really look stupid when writing program with 2 fingers. 
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I don't think that typing speed or skill matters in coding. You pause anyway to review the code, think, copy/paste, etc.
I use copy/paste very much when coding. I suppose it would matter for other jobs (e.g. secretary) but not in this kind.
...Plug & Pray... 
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...that on my 1.5yo keyboard, the text on 2 keys is worn away completely, and 9 others are seriously faded. I don't know if it's how much I type or if it's due to poor adherence.
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I'm a Vb.net programmer, and the keys that are most worn for me are the ones that spell out: Dim i As Integer, and System.Windows.Forms
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
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I understand it is a joke, but if it was for real, I would recommand the use of abbreviations.
For example, in SciTE you could define dimi<ctrl+b> and get "Dim i As Integer", etc.
Even Visual Studio can do this with a bit of VBA.
And as I was answering to another entry, I found that ArsClip (and problably a lot of other freewares) can do that too.
Typing fast is good, typing less is excellent 
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A lot more important than how fast you can type, is do you use the mouse to cut & paste a line of code five lines up.
I once saw a programmer do that.
Are you one of those people that starts the debugger using the mouse to click on "Debug/Start" ???
Confess!
Marc
Microsoft MVP, Visual C#
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Are you one of those people that starts the debugger using the mouse to click on "Debug/Start" ???
 Debug/what? Do you mean there is a way to start the debugger with a mouse?
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Marc Clifton wrote:
A lot more important than how fast you can type, is do you use the mouse to cut & paste a line of code five lines up.
I use ctrl-c and ctrl-v for copy and paste, but I might use the mouse for movind gome lines up or down. Depends on my moode I guess
Marc Clifton wrote:
Are you one of those people that starts the debugger using the mouse to click on "Debug/Start" ???
Err, no, my F5 key is always blank from use
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Anders Molin wrote:
I use ctrl-c and ctrl-v for copy and paste, but I might use the mouse for movind gome lines up or down.
D&D rocks, esp. when you don't want to mess up the clipboard buffer.
BTW, i still use CTRL+INS, SHIFT+INS, and SHIFT+DEL as well as CTRL+C, CTRL+V, CTRL+X...
The bees will find their honey;
The sweetest every time...
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I've gotten used to clicking on the toolbar buttons while debugging. For some reason I feel more in control and I can never remember the shortcuts for Step-Over vs. Step-Into or Step-Out.
For editing code I use the keyboard almost exclusively. Ctrl+S is my best friend!
Regards,
Alvaro
Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish. Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.
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>> is do you use the mouse to cut & paste a line of code five lines up.
yes, mouse to select text, right click > Copy, mouse to move insertion point to where you want to paste it, right click > Paste
Its not too hard
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paulb wrote:
yes, mouse to select text, right click > Copy, mouse to move insertion point to where you want to paste it, right click > Paste
How can you do that?! I tried, but it took me 4 times longer than Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
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Ha... it's too bad Visual Studio doesn't come with a vi mode, too. vi is cruel and unusual to people who don't know it, but once you learn... 
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Get yourself a mouse with thumb buttons on it and assign one to the CTRL key. Then you can CTRL+drag your text about one handed (the fastet method).
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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Marc Clifton wrote:
do you use the mouse to cut & paste a line of code five lines up.
That depends. Soemtimes I will use the keyboard and sometimes I will use the context-drag or even shortcut-drag method of moving stuff around. Typically, I guess, I use the keyboard for horizontal navigation but the mouse for anything other than moving a single line vertically. I'm a big fan of selecting text on the same line using they keyboard shortcuts.
Marc Clifton wrote:
Are you one of those people that starts the debugger using the mouse to click on "Debug/Start" ???
At work, yes, because the pos machine is so damned slow you have to hit the shortcut keys a few times to get a click registered. 
Elsewhere though, no, although I use F5 / Ctrl+F5 for that example most other commands will be executed in the ALT+F+S style. (A bad habbit I seem unable to loose.)
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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I use keyboard shortcuts a lot (I always remove the Copy, Cut, Paste and Undo icons from the toolbars...) but I also like drag'n'drop a lot.
Margin click & drag can be very fast too.
Depends on the task, mood, visibility of lines, etc.
Also great to avoid messing up the clipboard content (I can't get used to clipboard managers, I guess  . I should retry again, I found ArsClip quite good for this)
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What about special characters {}[]:;><, numbers, etc.? I bet the results would change drastically if it wasn't plain text.
Todd Smith
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Absolutely. Honestly, I can type up to 60 words per minute if it is plain text. However, when it comes back down to the code, I only type at an average rate of 30-40 words per minute and sometimes peaking up to 45 words per minute. I answered the survey as if I was writing code because when I am on the keyboard, I am mostly writing code.
Justin Lovell
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may be not, those are the most used characters for the C++ Developers
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