Not necessarily -- you're universalizing your experience.
Perhaps I was overly terse; I meant to do the opposite, with regard to the limited perspective represented in the previous comment!
I don't futz; I just sort of want and the cursor is there and the paragraph is changed, etc.
Our strategies are very different, but it sounds like our experiences feel much the same. I don't really think about editing at all; my fingers just do what years of practice have trained them to do, while my conscious mind works on the actual problem.
I made my own quirky commitment to keyboarding speed: I learned to touch-type very young, using the Dvorak layout, and I've been cruising along at 100 wpm ever since. I have never learned QWERTY at all, so a normal keyboard cripples me - I become a slow, clumsy, two-fingered hunt-and-pecker, for whom getting any text into the machine represents a significant labor. (This is the primary reason I rejected vim, twenty-odd years ago - the Dvorak layout scrambled its command mode into anti-ergonomic chaos.)
In that way, I very much agree with your belief that typing speed matters! I have simply found it in a different layer of the stack.
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Perhaps I was overly terse; I meant to do the opposite, with regard to the limited perspective represented in the previous comment!
Our strategies are very different, but it sounds like our experiences feel much the same. I don't really think about editing at all; my fingers just do what years of practice have trained them to do, while my conscious mind works on the actual problem.
I made my own quirky commitment to keyboarding speed: I learned to touch-type very young, using the Dvorak layout, and I've been cruising along at 100 wpm ever since. I have never learned QWERTY at all, so a normal keyboard cripples me - I become a slow, clumsy, two-fingered hunt-and-pecker, for whom getting any text into the machine represents a significant labor. (This is the primary reason I rejected vim, twenty-odd years ago - the Dvorak layout scrambled its command mode into anti-ergonomic chaos.)
In that way, I very much agree with your belief that typing speed matters! I have simply found it in a different layer of the stack.
Fascinating -- I too once had to choose between my mastery of Dvorak and mastery of vim.
I choose vim, but I agree that I was forced to choose by how hecking terrible it is to use vim under Dvorak.
If anyone who is reading wants a cool project, make a kakaoune-like Dvorak-specialized text-mode editor!