Only when having to write code manually do I fully appreciate the awesomeness of autocomplete.
Hey everyone!
This is a (hopefully) fun July 4th weekend project I put together. I shared the site at work and it's led to some fierce competition... the current high score is 70 "words" per minute for JS.
That's a joke, isn't it? It says "Software Intern Please invert a binary tree instead... You type C at 17 words/minute (185 chars/minute) with 100% accuracy."
Yay I get to be a distinguished engineer!
Hey kids, it's ol' grayhair here. Please don't type fast. You'll end up like me, with both forearms on fire at the mere thought of blazing out 1MLOC in an afternoon. RSI seriously sucks.
Better goal: think through what you're doing, take it easy on the typing. Write less code, with fewer bugs, that compiles the first time.
Or, y'know, don't listen. Type fast & hard, burn out those arms. You'll eventually learn to think through things, or you'll quit the industry.
Sidenote, the really shitty thing about RSI is that every repetitive motion involving your hands will eventually hurt within a minute. And I do mean sex stuff.