[iLemming]

I'm honestly not even surprised by the number of comments saying how unimportant is the typing speed for a software developer. What a bunch of bullshit. What the heck you've been smoking, friends? Speed of reading and typing text it is absolutely the hallmark of a good programmer. Consuming and producing text is not only about code - code is nothing but structured text.

Software development is not purely technological discipline, we deal with socio-technological problems all the time. That means we need to consume and produce far more plain text rather than just code.

I mean sure, there are many facets to this and simply benchmarking and fretting about one's WPM won't magically make anyone a better programmer. But thinking it isn't important at all ain't right either.