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title: "Touch typing hell"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/17/touch-typing-hell.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/17/touch-typing-hell.html"
published: "2003-07-17T21:16:00"
updated: "2003-07-17T21:16:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm starting to try and learn touch typing again, and it's pretty damn hard. I'm actually doing it right now and it's horrible! and the teaching program is sooo boring! I'm a pretty fast typist, when I look at the…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# Touch typing hell

By Roy Osherove July 17, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 17, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

I'm starting to try and learn touch typing again, and it's pretty damn hard. I'm actually doing it right now and it's horrible! and the teaching program is sooo boring! I'm a pretty fast typist, when I look at the keyboard, actually faster in english than I do in hebrew, but like this - It's a bloody nightmare!

this post took 5 minutes to write so far.

They should make a "Touch typing for programmers" software. All the drills would incoporate code in the language you choose, and there should also be drills for standard comments. You know, the usual kind:

"Legacy code -  do not delete!!!!!!!!!"

"You need to call it this way or it won't work, I don't know why."

and so on.....

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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