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by sellyme 1839 days ago
Pretty much all of the time I'm typing natural language (chat apps, emails, writing this comment here) I'm going to be limited more by my typing speed (~120WPM) than by the speed at which I can think of the words I want to type.

A pretty trivial demonstration of this is that I can talk much faster than I can type, and I would expect that you can too.

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I can talk much faster than I can type, but I have much higher standards for precision and language quality when writing. When I write in natural language, I almost always carefully read through my message once or twice before sending. I don’t think doubling my typing speed (currently around 80 wpm, I guess) would save much time.
There's a time and place for everything. Sometimes that level of precision is required, sometimes it's not.