Fair enough. It just felt so jarring to observe (my WPM is ~110 on Typeracer) and it set off a chain of thoughts afterwards, so I thought it would be worth mentioning.
I can get to 120 with the right mental mode and setup, but I just tried it cold and got 67wpm, and I believe I’m much slower when mixing typing and thinking. I think there IS a huge benefit from typing without looking or thinking about it, which mostly requires two hands on the home row as a baseline. But I don’t think that benefit is measured in wpm. It’s about cognitive load and whether it’s a distraction.
I even advocate (and am really unhappy when I don’t have access to) spending real money and energy to learn a great programmable keyboard (I prefer https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/) - again, it doesn’t make me faster, but it does make me happier and it gets out of my way so I can think.
Fair enough. It just felt so jarring to observe (my WPM is ~110 on Typeracer) and it set off a chain of thoughts afterwards, so I thought it would be worth mentioning.
I can get to 120 with the right mental mode and setup, but I just tried it cold and got 67wpm, and I believe I’m much slower when mixing typing and thinking. I think there IS a huge benefit from typing without looking or thinking about it, which mostly requires two hands on the home row as a baseline. But I don’t think that benefit is measured in wpm. It’s about cognitive load and whether it’s a distraction.
I even advocate (and am really unhappy when I don’t have access to) spending real money and energy to learn a great programmable keyboard (I prefer https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/) - again, it doesn’t make me faster, but it does make me happier and it gets out of my way so I can think.