I've read a couple of articles that recommend programmers should also be fast typists. I am ponderously slow at 35wpm - no code. What's yours?

nerdicusprimus: I've read a couple of articles that recommend programmers should also be fast typists. I am ponderously slow at 35wpm - no code. What's yours?

Ain't a programmer though, just few basic knowledge about programming, I go 40WPM

theres no standard measure.... Its wrong to use typing speed as a measure of any major ranking...

But.... It depends on language and...
. . . I think its typically counted in WORKING Lines Of Source Code per day. Which is typically 1000 - 3000 lines for FULL TIME paid veterans.
....And 500+ for other FULL TIME paid Junior programmers.

for me, my rough guess, based on the last ACM-ICPC South African Regionals I participated in....

20 - 25 lines per minute when I am playing pseudocode (prototyping).

15 - 25 lines per minute when I am happy and know exactly what I am doing... on C++...

10 - 20 lines per minute on C#, Python, and php.

5 - 10 lines per minute when I am not so confident, especially with external APIs that I am not familiar with.

2 lines per minute when I have little or no idea of what I am doing.

1000 - 3,000 lines of code is much though