Ask HN: Is it worth learning to type properly?
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It's helpful being able to type quickly, but it's unlikey to make or break your career.
(I never got on with "proper" typing either, and eventually switched to using the Dvorak layout - I find it much easier to stay mostly on the home row now. Changing keyboard is a bit extreme, and people often scoff, but it worked for me.)
(I never got on with "proper" typing either, and eventually switched to using the Dvorak layout - I find it much easier to stay mostly on the home row now. Changing keyboard is a bit extreme, and people often scoff, but it worked for me.)
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As a current hobbyist programmer with aspirations to go professional in the near future, is it worth forcing myself to learn to type properly as in mavis beacon? or should i focus on practicing in general and increasing my speed with my current method?
as a side note, with big hands i've always found the proper typing method feels contortionist-ey