[ozim]

But I am quite happy with it I don’t have to waste my time typing. I don’t have to waste my time improving my raw typing speed.

I do solid touch typing 60WPM writing plain text. With code completion and linting it easily goes twice as fast writing code.

[nine_k]

That's cool. I'm unironically interested, how do you manage to think at such speed?

[camgunz]

I'm ~120WPM and a vim user, and yeah the main thing is how little time I actually spend typing. It helps me keep my focus on what I'm doing.

I think other tools (like the ones people are mentioning) do stuff like this for people: autocomplete, copilot, formatters, etc. I also use formatters and linters, and my autocomplete is "be strict about conventions, look up the actual meanings of words", which makes me touchy about conventions haha.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

I type at 100WPM and that's usually fast enough for programming but not always. Sometimes you just know exactly what needs to be written, maybe because you've written similar things before.

[ozim]

I don’t do it simultaneously, when I do know what I want to code it just takes me less time writing it out so sooner I go back to thinking what’s next.

[globular-toast]

Programming is mostly thinking interspersed with a bit of typing. Nobody thinks as they type. The typing bit is just getting your abstract idea of what the program should do into the computer.