I think it does and it's something I work on. I don't think speed is as important as touch typing with less errors. having to backspace every couple of lines

I think it does and it's something I work on. I don't think speed is as important as touch typing with less errors. having to backspace every couple of lines because you hit ' instead of ; really messes up flow. I started practicing typing because I tend to type with 2 or 3 fingers per hand and was experiencing RSI symptoms. My hands feel a lot better when I type properly. There is a great article about this on Coding Horror: http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmers-second/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmer... I've enjoyed typing.io for learning as well as typing of the dead.