I see hunt and peck people in IT pretty regularly. I also see an increase in the number that aren't familiar with basic efficiency shortcuts such as ctrl-c/ctrl-v.

There are people joining the workforce as "IT professionals" who have not used a keyboard as their primary input device for most of their life. Many people have now grown up with phones or tablets as their primary computer.

It says a lot that 90% of the time I click a WikiPedia link in an online forum, it is the ".m." mobile version, not the desktop version.

Over the next decade this is just going to get worse.

hunt and peck is probably an exaggeration but typing speed is not the bottleneck for programming https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1302651878065475584

If you don't measure it, don't require it, it won't be there.

Nobody ever asked "are you a proficient typer?" in an interview. And no one ever followed up with "show me".

Talk to a secretary. I have known many. They still have to do typing tests as part of their interviews, as do stenographers. Since these skills directly speak to their vocations, and are fairly easily measured, it's natural.

Coders, on the other hand, aren't applying for typing positions. You could say that the "Draw the Pirate" tests, given by many companies, these days, are like typing tests (but I don't think so. I won't go into my thoughts on that).

I have heard, anecdotally, of programmers being tested for speed of coding, as part of the interview process.

I did mean for coders, of course.

Pray tell how exactly can you be tested for coding speed? Or would it be speed / correctness? I can't really picture how this would work in an interview situation...

I never learned to type properly. I don’t think it hinders my development speed or anything. Typing is a very small part of the time programmers spend while working.

I find that typing speed plays a big role in how fast I can work: the faster I can get my ideas through my fingers into my text buffer, the faster I can reclaim some short-term memory for my next thoughts.

they exist, although I imagine they are becoming rarer as typing skills are becoming part of the standard elementary/middle-school curriculum.

My dad was a hunt-n-peck programmer all of his life. Electrical Engineer PhD, often programming in fortran or c (although all his c code was actually just fortran too). Two-finger typer all of his life.

His son: 140-160 wpm on Kinesis Advantage 2, thanks to typing classes in middle school.

I was a hunt-n-peck programmer because I learned how to program as I was learning how to type.

don't judge me

Your public post is, unfortunately, being judged by hundreds to people (at least).