[WhiteOwlEd]

Mavis Beacon taught my how to type between 60-75 wpm. The dictate feature of Microsoft Word within Office 365 gets me roughly to 100 wpm after corrections.

Bottom line: Mavis Beacon helped me code faster, but Microsoft helped me write blogs faster.

[jker]

This is always interesting to me: I find that I can't dictate at all, I need to see the words and read them as I'm writing them, for some reason. Especially for writing fiction, it's just hard to imagine saying it out loud, I feel like that would engage a different and "wrong" part of my brain.

[WhiteOwlEd]

When I am coding, I feel the need to "type it out."

If I am writing blogs or if I'm writing scripts, I find that I can dictate much faster and then just edit the sentences afterwards in order to clarify. The process of dictation plus editing is faster for me than if I were to type out everything.