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There have been a lot of studies on handwriting and memory. The Wall Street Journal article How Handwriting Trains the Brain talks about one such study that shows that children learn to recognize letter shapes faster and more accurately if they write them out rather than typing them. Writing by hand also helps adults who are learning a graphically ...

I just did a little experiment and typed the following without looking at the keyboard: a=a++ - used my middle finger for the = and + a[0] - used my third finger for the [ and 0. used my fourth finger for the ] a?a:b - used my fourth finger for the ? and my pinky for the : There's no right or wrong to this. It's just what I do. And I do touch type ...

I am learning touch typing. I want practice step by step. Don't. It will just take you more time to learn it. Do not learn, do not practice, do not spend time on simply learning to touch type. Just start obeying the rules of touch typing and go on with your life. Put your hands on home row. Then, while watching at the keyboard for every letter you ...

I suspect code-assist might actually be your friend here - the advantage of programming languages is tha as they are described by a grammar - the editor can help you out a lot more - we're very much in the 'write code v. generate code' area here - what editor are you using? (and I can then expand this answer - you're getting quite a stackoverflowy answer ...

It may be a tedious process, but I'm sure you could develop an AutoHotkey script to help you practice this in Windows. AutoHotkey has a function called GetKeyState which you could use to check if LShift or RShift is down. Inside the conditional block, you can define what is done if a bad key is pressed (popup dialog, send the character unshifted, do ...

I've been programming for just under 30 years, and just recently (5+ years) realized I still couldn't touch type the symbols and editing keys (Insert, Page Up, etc). I tried forcing myself to try without looking, and made many mistakes along the way. But I kept cheating and peeking at the keyboard. So I decided to buy the following keyboard: (About $130 ...

Investigate the code generation/auto-completion/navigation/auto-formatting/refactoring capabilities of your IDE. You'll spend less time typing what your IDE can do for you. A few examples from the Eclipse IDE: Generate constructors, setters/getters from instance variables. Complete the rest of a variable or method name after typing the first few letters. ...

Type Racer has typing universe for coding text. A universe is similar a separate stack exchange site, in that app is the same, but data is different. In this case this means you can compete against others typing a bunch of code.

Speaking as a 16 year old, typing is easy for me. However i don't use any specific type of typing (thats fun to say...), i am very free form in how i do it. My mother works as a personal assistant / secretary so typing is part of her work, and i believe she uses touch. I can out-type her by about 10 words per minute, and she has no idea how i do it. My ...

While I appreciate your goal (most gain for best efficient use of time), I have found that the best tool is a combination of several tools, directed by a consciousness (metacognition) of how you're learning. You come to realize there are several aspects of typing: consistent speed, bursty typing, initial typing (vs being in the middle of a long paragraph), ...