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Show HN: How fast can you type code?

6 pointsby dominicwhytealmost 4 years ago

5 comments

klyrsalmost 4 years ago
Hey kids, it&#x27;s ol&#x27; grayhair here. Please don&#x27;t type fast. You&#x27;ll end up like me, with both forearms on fire at the mere thought of blazing out 1MLOC in an afternoon. RSI seriously sucks.<p>Better goal: think through what you&#x27;re doing, take it easy on the typing. Write less code, with fewer bugs, that compiles the first time.<p>Or, y&#x27;know, don&#x27;t listen. Type fast &amp; hard, burn out those arms. You&#x27;ll eventually learn to think through things, or you&#x27;ll quit the industry.<p>Sidenote, the really shitty thing about RSI is that <i>every</i> repetitive motion involving your hands will eventually hurt within a minute. And I do mean sex stuff.
codeptualizealmost 4 years ago
Only when having to write code manually do I fully appreciate the awesomeness of autocomplete.
dominicwhytealmost 4 years ago
Hey everyone!<p>This is a (hopefully) fun July 4th weekend project I put together. I shared the site at work and it&#x27;s led to some fierce competition... the current high score is 70 &quot;words&quot; per minute for JS.
Rochusalmost 4 years ago
That&#x27;s a joke, isn&#x27;t it? It says &quot;Software Intern Please invert a binary tree instead... You type C at 17 words&#x2F;minute (185 chars&#x2F;minute) with 100% accuracy.&quot;
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yongjikalmost 4 years ago
Yay I get to be a distinguished engineer!