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by rgoulter 1268 days ago
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.

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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.
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.