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How to Boost Your Coding and Typing Speed
Why you should invest in your typing speed and proficiency
Increase Your Coding Speed
There might be a very good project you want to build, and if you want to finish it faster than usual, you might want to increase your coding speed.
Think before you write code
Thinking beforehand about what you want to solve or accomplish might be the most important thing you can do before starting to write code. Take your time and try to understand what you need to build and what the key points you want to achieve in your code are.
Thinking before writing any code will let you make fewer mistakes. When you understand what the problem is exactly, you can spend less time thinking about the next steps while you code.
There is a very famous quote from Albert Einstein:
“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”
Increase Your Typing Speed
Increasing your typing speed has a great impact on increasing your coding speed. If you get used to your computer’s keyboard, you can use it faster. Practicing is very important to get used to your keyboard.
There are some practicing applications you can use to try to improve your keyboard skills, for instance, keybr.com. There are some practices you can apply through that website. Finish them and see the progress of your typing speed.
There are some charts that help you use all your fingers for certain areas. That might be hard to apply at the beginning, but sooner or later you will start writing much faster than you used to.
Get used to your IDE
Try to understand the shortcuts of your favourite IDE. That will boost your typing speed a lot.
Below are some popular IDE shortcut lists. Try to use them often to increase your typing speed.
