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Ask HN: Should I force myself to touch type?

Most of my daily activity revolves around coding, whether for work or for personal projects.

Thing is, I have never received a formal programming education and my typing style is very "improvised" - whatever my hands got used to while growing up using a PC - I only use my index finger on the right hand, and three fingers on the left hand.

Work gets done comfortable fast, but I wonder whether I should try and force myself to learn how to touch type properly. I tried giving it a shot for a while and if I choose to commit to it I can see myself having to go through lots of frustration due to slowness and clunkyness as my hands re-learn how to type.

Has anyone gone through a similar process?

5 points MegaLeon 10 years ago 9 comments

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