[shurcooL]

It usually happens during refactoring, or when you're doing something you've done before, so you already know pretty much exactly what needs to be done and you're just executing.

It also helps to stop coding for a minute, think what you want to do, then code until you stop typing for more than 5 seconds, repeat.

[m_mueller]

When refactoring: Instead of typing fast, use ST multicursors or VI/emacs macros in an intelligent way. And I really really recommend ST if you don't want to debug your editor macros before debugging your build macros before debugging your code macros before debugging your code (yo dawg etcetera).

[sophacles]

On the other end are us visual thinkers. I could do all of that proficiently just fine. In fact I do plenty of macros and scripts and so on. But at the end of the day, I think in pictures. I end up using a lot of editor short cuts and "lots of keypresses" style refactoring while I work out the shape I really want. Then, when I get that, fire off some macros to deal with the rest, cleanup, etc.

[m_mueller]

That's what I like so much about multicursors: It's a visual way of mass editing.