Let me start by stating that touch typing is orthogonal to coding well.

The nice thing about touch type is to not think about typing. One quick glance to position your hands on the home row (there’s helper on F and J), and then whatever you want to write just flow out. While I use two thumbs to type this on mobile, I’m mostly using my peripheral vision. Typing on a real keyboard is better as I have better feedback and can use all my fingers.

It’s only one reason: No need to think about typing, it’s all muscle memory.

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FirmwareBurner a day ago | parent [-]

Not sure why you assume people who don't touch type actually need to think about typing.

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icedchai a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. I don't "touch type" in the traditional way. I have my own technique I developed when I was a teenager. I don't look at the keyboard and I don't "hunt and peck". I basically use index/middle/ring fingers on each hand for most of the keyboard, thumbs mostly handle the spacebar and alt keys, left pinky is mostly for shift, control, tab, right pinky is mostly for return, backspace, arrow keys, etc.

	▲	cdash 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same here. Whatever I do could not be defined as traditional touch typing but it kind of works. I definitely do not look at the keyboard at all but my fingers kind of just hover over the keyboard instead of resting on the home row.

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wredcoll a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Because that's the definition of touch typing. What did you think it meant?

Also signals are heuristics and thus important because it's impossible to evaluate everything from first principles every time.

	▲	FirmwareBurner a day ago \| parent [-]
		>Because that's the definition of touch typing Touch typing means not looking at the keyboard while typing, not not-thinking about typing. >What did you think it meant? What do YOU think it means? Can't you not touch type while still not thinking about typing? Am I the only human capable of doing an activity while not thinking about it?