typing without a need to look at the keyboard
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Typing Preferences for " and ? [closed]
Do you use the right-shift key for typing double quotes(") and the question mark(?) or the left-shift key? Because these occur quite a lot in programming and it is often a typing speed bottleneck for ...
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Can I learn touch typing while doing normal typing during coding? [closed]
I'm having a big problem as I don't know touch typing. I look at the keyboard (hunt and peck).
However, I really want to learn touch typing. I have tried many times, but I don't have the patience and ...
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Insuring your hands [closed]
I'm a software engineer - this means that I type all day. I was doing some woodworking with a friend and he remarked off hand to be careful, an accident that cut off a finger or more might be ...
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How to improve typing skills for a developer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which tips helped you learn touch-typing?
I've been coding for many years (>10), and I can average only about 40wpm. My error rate seems pretty rubbish, and when I am ...
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Should a developer have fast-typing skill? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How important is the ability to touch-type?
We're going to hire new programmers and we just wondered should we include typing skill in our employment filters?
Someone ...
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4answers
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How to practice typing of programmer keys such as tilde, pipe and programmer quote? [closed]
It is nice that there are services such as TypeRacer where you can practice casual writing but I want to practice programmer keys, covers more numbers and keys not used by regular typist. There was ...
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Which keyboard layout should I use for learning touchtyping? [closed]
Out of Dvorak and QWERTY which would be most beneficial to learn touchtyping on, as a programmer?
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What's the “normal” range for typing speed for developers? [closed]
Clearly, two finger typing is probably a sign the developer needs work to speed up his typing (or is lying about his experience as a developer), and 60+ WPM is more than sufficient. Has anyone studied ...
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What are the best tactics for practicing touch typing? [closed]
I've been practicing typing over the past little while, and I'm wondering if there's any tricks to getting further.
I started out at ~40 wpm back when I was typing with 6 fingers. It took a little ...
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26answers
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Which tips helped you learn touch-typing? [closed]
I've been learning touch-typing for about two weeks now, and I'm really commited to mastering this skill.
Eventhough I'm doing ok with prose already, I'm struggling with programming syntax and even ...
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How important is the ability to touch-type? [closed]
Did you learn to touch-type when you were already working as a programmer? If so how did it affect your productivity? Or are you still unable to touch type and do you think it holds you back?
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