It’s been a long time since I thought along those lines, but it makes a lot of sense, thanks for writing this.
(If I really want to be my usual grudging self, I must add I think you probably gain very little from fast typing—thinking is by far the bottleneck and you can think as you type.)
I guessed 35 based on typing a bit on type-racer to get a feel of the speed. I seem to be able to sustain 90, although on the long run you’d have to see how mistakes affect that average. I get your point but for me, writing is fast spurts of writing punctuated by long thinking pauses. In my comments and status, I probably spend 10x ballpark more time thinking than typing. It’s even worse for some blog post and waay worse for academic articles (only for the first rough draft, not factoring editing).
That’s fair. I’d like to avoid typical minding here, though; my experience is that I have way more thoughts than I have time to write them up (both cached and on the fly), so even at my typing speed I still find that typing speed is my bottleneck.
It’s been a long time since I thought along those lines, but it makes a lot of sense, thanks for writing this.
(If I really want to be my usual grudging self, I must add I think you probably gain very little from fast typing—thinking is by far the bottleneck and you can think as you type.)
Calibration exercise: what do you think the average typing speed is?
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I guessed 35 based on typing a bit on type-racer to get a feel of the speed. I seem to be able to sustain 90, although on the long run you’d have to see how mistakes affect that average. I get your point but for me, writing is fast spurts of writing punctuated by long thinking pauses. In my comments and status, I probably spend 10x ballpark more time thinking than typing. It’s even worse for some blog post and waay worse for academic articles (only for the first rough draft, not factoring editing).
That’s fair. I’d like to avoid typical minding here, though; my experience is that I have way more thoughts than I have time to write them up (both cached and on the fly), so even at my typing speed I still find that typing speed is my bottleneck.