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Hehe thanks for giving me a mention on Twitter... But God damn... 83 WPM with 94% accuracy?! And as if that wasn't enough you then went ahead and beat it with 96 WPM with 97% accuracy??!! My lowly 50 - 60 wpm fingers bow down to you kind master, lol.

> For code the answer is more complex and I have no idea how to measure it.

http://www.speedcoder.net/ :)

my coding wpm averages around a pathetic 16 wpm. And my age is greater than yours. :'(

Not going to help this late in the game, but try Speed Coder, it is a typing test for programmers. It as 10 or so different programming languages. It doesn’t do arrow keys, but has all the brackets, semi and colons, parens, etc.

I recently switched to a lily58 and the struggle was real; trying different layouts and swapping keys kept stunting me, but I kept at it after work and got better and better and finally found some good layers - so good that I am remembering them without thinking.

My initial problem is while programming I spent 1/2 of my brain power remembering how and where to access keys and lost the by memory typing.

I was not a perfect touch typists and that also killed performance due to the Lily’s staggered columns, so I also used some other sites to practice touch typing before bed. Doing speed coder and touch typing practices helped me enjoy it - still not as fast yet, but productive and faster each day.

I’m three weeks in btw

Very nice gains! I would say slowing down significantly on special characters is to be expected. Since you mention coding, you will be using a lot of special characters depending on the language so it is worth practicing. I have not used this site much, but it has a lot of programming content for typing link that you may find useful.

And finally, to produce and edit code faster, you will want to use shortcuts. You are probably familiar with copy ctrl + c and paste ctrl + v. Some other useful ones are go to beginning of line Home, end of line End and selection of text shift + arrow key. link for more. Unfortunately, some of these keys are far out of reach. Your can however use a text editor or IDE and look up their shortcuts. The other option, (less popular) is to use a script that remaps those hard to reach keys to easy to reach keys.

The more you practice the faster you get back on track.

Online typing trainers: * Type Racer * Key Hero * Speed Coder Or the good old CLI typespeed application.