Poll: How many of you hunt and peck on the keyboard
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I can touch type on the keyboard and the number pad. I have noticed that very often programmers who complain a lot about having to type "long" (meaningful) variable names are not able to type well. There are, of course exceptions. ;) :)
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
Luckily, I am an elite typist and very very fast typing the normall keyboard and the 10pad. I don't ever look at the keyboard. That's good, because as much as I've tried, I'm still a very very poor programmer. X| I need those extra seconds to think. My dad is a hunt and pecker, but he just plays games. So, basically, the only letters he really knows on the keyboard is his name. He's really good at those letters and pretty bad with any letters that aren't in his name. LOL.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
We hired a secretary once who said that she was a typist, but she was just a hunt 'n pecker. :cool:
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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I didn't typo. Hunt = to find or search and Peck = to peck at the keys like a chicken pecking for grain.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
/sigh/ Thanks for the English lesson. Here's one in return: What variants are there of "*unt and **ck", and how could it be typoed?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
To the people who wish to improve on their typist skills... I heavily recommend the game "Typing of the dead". It's a mod of "House of the dead". Instead of shooting the zombies, you need to "type" them away. Hell, even if typing speed isn't important to you, you should still download it for the fun factor :)
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
My typing speed is slow, but completely error-free. I would like to think that the net effect of it is on par with that of the lightning-fast-but-error-prone typists I have worked with. I like to make each keystroke count! After all, a fast typing speed is more the hallmark of a good data-entry clerk than that of a good programmer.
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Last time I measured it, I clocked in at 104wpm... But that was years ago, so I dunno if I've gotten faster or slower since then... For coding, though, I've become VERY reliant on Intellisense, so I actually code incredibly slowly if I have to do it in a normal text editor. When I code, the only complete words I type are new class names... Everything else is tab-completed.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Intellisense has killed my WPM typing speed. I used to be much faster.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I'm a peeking pecker I still peck and peek, but I only peek about every 5 keystrokes. Not exactly warp speed but passable.
If Barney Frank eats a fruitcake, is it cannibalism?
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Try these: www.typingweb.com www.typeracer.com
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
Net Speed 37 WPM Gross Speed 43 WPM Accuracy 97% Time Elapsed 01:21 Thats an average. Usually its faster. Espessially if I don't have to have to read from what is going on the screen and it comes directly from the brain.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." << please vote!! >>
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Shows you how much I care about the surveys.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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No hunting. Just pecking. 3 Fingers. 45+ wpm. (That's 2 fingers on the right hand and 1 on the left.).
Never give aversion therapy to a masochist. The results are unpredictable. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
GenJerDan wrote:
3 Fingers. 45+ wpm.
Impressive.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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/sigh/ Thanks for the English lesson. Here's one in return: What variants are there of "*unt and **ck", and how could it be typoed?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
What variants are there of "*unt and **ck", and how could it be typoed?
Have no idea nor do I care.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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My typing speed is slow, but completely error-free. I would like to think that the net effect of it is on par with that of the lightning-fast-but-error-prone typists I have worked with. I like to make each keystroke count! After all, a fast typing speed is more the hallmark of a good data-entry clerk than that of a good programmer.
BardCoder wrote:
My typing speed is slow, but completely error-free.
I find this hard to believe.
BardCoder wrote:
a fast typing speed is more the hallmark of a good data-entry clerk than that of a good programmer.
Not entirely a true statement. Most programmers (not all) probably learned how to type before they took up programming. Also, I was not making a comparison between being a good programmer and typing speed. Your slow typing prowess has been forgiven. ;)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
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GenJerDan wrote:
3 Fingers. 45+ wpm.
Impressive.
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
My typing teacher was a drop-dead gorgeous blonde who wore miniskirts and sat on the edge of my desk telling me how her husband was always on the road. Didn't learn any typing whatsoever.
Never give aversion therapy to a masochist. The results are unpredictable. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.
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This one is older than ten years! It's the first PS/2 keyboard I bought so probably from the early 90s, and it's been apart for cleaning more times than I want to think about. (I used to not mind eating, drinking, smoking and playing doom on it - sometimes all together). The key tops are in good shape, excepting the index markers which I have worn to nothing, it's the springs that are getting weak... That and it looks like I still, smoke, drink and eat over it :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
I still use the PS2 HP keyboard that came with my first PC back in '99. It just feels like home. I took it apart a few weeks ago and cleaned it. Now it's just like new again. Even the Ctrl, X, C V, and A look like new after 12 years.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
I learned to type eons ago back in the days of manual type writers. Its one of the reasons I now bang and the keys and annoy my coworkers. I've gotten used to looking at what I type, not what I'm typing from, so I'm not accurate anymore. Had to make 2 corrections already to this text. Ok, 3, just caught another.
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I can type about 65 words a minute with very few mistakes. This doesn't really mean anything while coding. However, my typing speed, over time, cuts down on my actual coding time. Are there any of you coders out there that don't know how to type? I knew this awesome programmer (was my first mentor) who couldn't type to save his life but he could hunt and peck pretty damn fast. :)
-- ** You don't hire a handyman to build a house, you hire a carpenter. ** Jack of all trades and master of none.
