Help me understand. I’ve always felt the limiting factor for me was the speed of thought, not typing or other text manipulation. My IDEs (Jetbrains stuff) with their defaults makes it so I spend more time thinking than typing. Often times my best work occurs in the shower, or on a walk and has nothing to do with keyboards or mice.
On occasion, I need to do something highly repetitive in which case I’ll do something on the command line (with sed, awk, and peers) or I’ll open the file in vim, record a macro and apply it appropriately.
Am I missing something? Am I a weirdo or a dummy in that I’m not itching to type faster and interact more efficiently?
I'm not itching to type faster either, so we might be both weirdo :D
I'm using these tools to stop switching between my mouse and my keyboard all the time. It might not bothering you, and it wasn't bothering me either before I tried to spend most of my time on the keyboard.
After that, like many things in development, it's a question of preferences; but you can try and see for yourself. You don't have to buy the book for that: I've many articles about mouseless tools on my blog for free for example, and there are even more on Internet :)
Touch typing is not only about typing faster. It gives you this other ability of "running your control panel" out of the home keys only (four fings on each hand resting on a,s,d,f and j,k,l,;). When you have to lift one of the hands off the home keys and move it to the mouse to do anything, and I mean anything, it's super annoying and frustrating.
Those who never learned to touch type are not likely to grok the appeal of mouseless work.
On occasion, I need to do something highly repetitive in which case I’ll do something on the command line (with sed, awk, and peers) or I’ll open the file in vim, record a macro and apply it appropriately.
Am I missing something? Am I a weirdo or a dummy in that I’m not itching to type faster and interact more efficiently?