[kqr]

> I haven’t worried much about my typing speed in years (100WPM is faster than I can think when coding or writing most of the time),

I hear this argument all the time and I don't buy it. Yes, my thinking is slower than 100 wpm on average, but it is extremely bursty. It goes at 0 wpm most of the time then 10000 wpm for short intervals.

I believe the fundamental concern here is not average speed, but latency. How fast can you get the current thought onto the page so that your brain can move on to think about the next thing?

I also type at 100 wpm, and I find my wetware CPU experiences stalled cycles while I'm typing, not able to continue because it needs to hold on to a buffer containing the thought I'm slowly typing out.

[szundi]

Mine is 0 wpm most of the time, but there are nanoseconds when it is almost infinite wpm.

[LoganDark]

We type at something like 150 wpm casually and our brain is still a bit faster... although we've been optimizing it to type out chat messages for years, so that's probably why we can come up with them with such ease

[tmtvl]

What kind of keyboard do you have that polls at such a rate that it can keep up with "almost infinite" (whatever that means) WPM? The best keyboards I have found only have 1000Hz scan rate, which in the absolute best case means only 30,000 WPM. Granted, compared to infinity, every number is equidistant, but when you say "almost infinite" I expect something a bit more impressive (in the 10**80 range, for example).

[rgoulter]

Right. Time spent typing adds latency to evaluating some solution. Ideally, everyone could type with 100% accuracy at 300WPM or whatever.

But, I expect it's diminishing returns on effort.

If you type 30WPM, you'll probably benefit yourself (and your colleagues!!) from learning to type quicker. 80 WPM seems reasonable; 100 WPM is good; 180 WPM is excellent. -- But, I think above some point, the costs of training to type quicker aren't justified by the benefits.

[vehemenz]

Sustained 100 wpm is more than good. I am in the 99th percentile on typeracer.com, and in real world typing I almost never go over 100 wpm.

[linhns]

80WPM is already excellent. That's more than most people on this planet can do. I tried my best but can only do 60WPM at most.