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this is what happens when you dont have always on ssh box for your agents

Realistically, to measure a lot of this stuff, you need to model tab completion.
This seems to be largely devops stuff, not developer. (Or plain ops.)
Something I realized with the new LLM tools is that learning how to type plain English words fast i.e. without capitalization or punctuation, and even typos is not that big of a problem anymore. And so it follows that code-specific typing is even less important if you can just type in normal words fast and then just check it's output. Although yes for stuff this small i.e. super small terminal commands I feel there does still exist an advantage.

Also, another observation I've had is sometimes I just don't feel like speaking, so voice as input to LLMs is really not an ALL time replacement in my personal opinion. In fact, I find myself preferring to type fast and with typos in lowercase much more than anything else.

This is fun lol. typing tests but for terminal commands instead of regular words is such a niche idea but it actually makes sense. every dev has typed git pull origin main so many times their fingers do it on autopilot, so measuring that muscle memory is a cool way to track terminal fluency.

The leaderboard angle is smart too,people love competing on pointless metrics and wpm is the perfect one for that.would love to see a mode for specific tools tho, like a docker-only round or a vim escape sequence speedrun. The git rebase one would genuinely stress test people lol.

There's a highscore system but considering it's a matter of time before that gets cheated, the first run where I didn't struggle with backspacing into a previous command (which is blocked):

60s | Basics category | 79 wpm | 100% acc | 38 cmds | QWERTY | Logitech K200 (membrane keyboard from like 2007)

Fun idea, I like the categories and the option to specify keyboard+layout in the highscore, and the page layout/design is very clear. Thanks for making!

Only slightly related, but what increased my code typing speed the most is this (AutoHotKey 2):

; CapsLock + J/K -> ( )

CapsLock & j::SendText "("

CapsLock & k::SendText ")"

; CapsLock + U/I -> [ ]

CapsLock & u::SendText "["

CapsLock & i::SendText "]"

; CapsLock + L/: -> { }

CapsLock & l::SendText "{"

; SC027 = physical ;/: key on a US keyboard

CapsLock & SC027::SendText "}"

; CapsLock + O/P/M/E -> _ + - =

CapsLock & o::SendText "_"

CapsLock & p::SendText "+"

CapsLock & m::SendText "-"

CapsLock & e::SendText "="

The speed that I type is not related to the quality of my code. I think then type.
I'm honestly not even surprised by the number of comments saying how unimportant is the typing speed for a software developer. What a bunch of bullshit. What the heck you've been smoking, friends? Speed of reading and typing text it is absolutely the hallmark of a good programmer. Consuming and producing text is not only about code - code is nothing but structured text.

Software development is not purely technological discipline, we deal with socio-technological problems all the time. That means we need to consume and produce far more plain text rather than just code.

I mean sure, there are many facets to this and simply benchmarking and fretting about one's WPM won't magically make anyone a better programmer. But thinking it isn't important at all ain't right either.

There is no autocompletion, that's not realist. I never type "apt-get install nginx" I type "apt-g<tab> ins<tab> ngi<tab>"
My typing speed is measured in tokens per second…
Expected this to be speed typing of AI prompts.
I wish this had some code or pseudo-code tests!
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I like how our very own Bobby Tables is ranking near the top in several categories!

Go Bobby!

Typing speed only really matters for juniors and going into intermediate developers, after that point thinking methodology - abstraction design, data structures, system design, complexity isolation, matter way, WAY more.

50% because by the time you get to this your typing speed has crossed a threshold of no longer being the bottleneck and 50% because you are experienced enough not to make all the silly little mistakes and your unit of work is larger and more complex

You mean to say programmers deal only with machines (and therefore code and shell commands) or something? Of course typing speed matters - we deal with Slack, Teams, emails, documentation, comments, LLM prompts, etc., daily. Sure no one's saying you must achieve stenographer's velocity or you can't call yourself a programmer. Still, typing speed has certain importance, it just can't be painfully slow, that's all. But thinking it doesn't matter at all is a manner of hubris.
>grep -R "error" logs

Why is error in quotes?

I found it reasonable because there's no need in this specific case but you do often use quotes and this could be a good middle ground of annoyance (line complexity) and getting the character distribution somewhat right

...but then you read the author's response about not having actually made this themselves and your head canon implodes

Similar to: wpm.silver.dev
"You check out guitar George, he knows all the chords"

I suppose knowing what commands to type has precedence over just typing fast.

I believe the real test would be if this accounted for (at least) people's aliases, and perhaps functions. So parse their .bashrc, .zshrc, .profile, etc. and expand the commands using those aliases to see if the eventual command executed matches the one that is expected here.
Nice! This is a fun one!

Give https://typequicker.com a try as well. For typing code practice, try typequicker.com. Supports most programming languages, and you can create your own custom snippets as well