didn't think this would surface again. I used this website when I was in college, around 2015. Tbh it is of no use. no one actually cares how fast you can type the syntax.
It's not about whether others care how fast you can type. It's about how quickly you can get your ideas into the computer. Between coding, writing documents, emails, and Slack, a lot of your day is spent typing. If you can improve your typing speed by 20%, you may have just reduced the time it takes to do your job by like 5%, which is meaningful!
Dan Luu has a really good post that outlines why working on things like typing speed can be extremely valuable and basically a force multiplier on everything else you do as an engineer.
While no one cares, if you type really really slow, then it will impact your performance.
This is like saying running fast is not important to football. It is true, but if you run really really slow like a 100y old, then you can't play football.
Luckily programming is not football and you can take all your time to write the code. I'm commenting this thinking about impaired people that either type with one finger or even by other means, not touching the keyboard.
I would imagine being able to touch type is absolutely essential for using Vim effectively, or any primarily CLI workflow, especially if the screen is far from the keyboard.
It really tires my neck out to look up and down every few seconds if I work somewhere with a large distance. Usually not an issue though, since I'm rarely in a CLI for more than 10 minutes.
