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Type Fast, Work Fast
A programmer’s approach to optimize your productivity
Introduction
To type something on your keyboard seems like a trivial daily task, right?
I believe that if you are serious about writing, programming, or even data science in general, it is very much on your interest to learn about touch-typing.
Why learn how to type fast?
The short answer is: because it will make you think faster.
A study published in the Journal of Computer Assister Learning shows that the automaticity introduced by learning touch-typing improves mental flow by decreasing the amount of working-memory load required by certain intellectual activities.
Testing my touch-typing speed
Let’s start from the beginning.
When I first started doing research, I did not take typing speed very seriously. It seemed to me, on an intuitive level, that I could type quite fast and that my daily routine would…
