[seanewest]

You can get to 40+ wpm pretty easily on a standard iphone. Kids these days have no trouble typing fast, one-handed, on their phone.

As for programming -- a language could be invented that is on-screen keyboard friendly (no brackets, etc).

[nacs]

Or a simpler way instead of implementing a new language -- just use a custom keyboard. Android already has this and iOS 8 just added it.

[fsiefken]

The question here is eyes-free text entry, portable speed is not really an issue nowadays (typing this on ipad)