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by fragmede 580 days ago
Some of the other skills mentioned are on the softer side but still good but touch typing is a specific, practicable hard skill that does help. You can be a decent programmer without knowing how to touch type, and so much of programming is reading, not writing, but when you are going from thought to code, being able to do so at 120 wpm vs 20 wpm makes a difference.