This is why typing tests were popular during SWE interviews back in the day.

When was that common?

2000s. The last time I got hit with this was in 2019, I believe.

	▲	worksonmymach 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		Wow. Never done one (working as dev since 1995) I would probably fail if I did. Probably avg 40 wpm with touchtyping.

Why were they discounted?