---
title: "Faster typing achieved slowly"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/23/faster-typing-achieved-slowly.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/23/faster-typing-achieved-slowly.html"
published: "2003-07-23T18:07:00"
updated: "2003-07-23T18:07:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "My touch typing abilities have been improving for the past few days. The hardest part seems to be typing out actual code. typing all those exclamation points and semicolons is pretty rough to place your fingers on, but…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Faster typing achieved slowly

By Roy Osherove July 23, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 23, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

My touch typing abilities have been improving for the past few days. The hardest part seems to be typing out actual code. typing all those exclamation points and semicolons is pretty rough to place your fingers on, but slowly, I get it to go faster and faster.

Somtimes I'll catch myself typing out like in the olds days- using 4 fingers and two eyes, but I have to say that I really like the experience of typing something out and keeping my eyes on the screen at the same time, watching the text being written in real time.

I even tried a friend's keyboard, [an ergonomical one by Microsoft](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006D2L3/qid=1058994121/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/iserializable-20). The difference is amazing. It's much more easy to touch type on that kind of keyboard than on a regular one. Conversely, it is much harder to type on it using my old typing method. everything is very different and thus everything is much slower. My eyes and fingers kept looking for keys in a specific place. Once I "let go" and let my fingers roam the keyboards without my eyes "helping", everything was much simpler. The keyboard is designed to make your fingers "slip" in to their right place.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Jul 27, 2003

    ### [Expand the desktops gallery](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/27/expand-the-desktops-gallery.html)

- Jul 27, 2003

    ### [MSDN VB blog section](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/27/msdn-vb-blog-section.html)

- Jul 22, 2003

    ### [Do what you love](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/22/do-what-you-love.html)

- Jul 18, 2003

    ### [Mr. Bunny](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/18/mr-bunny.html)


---

## 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.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/