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Section 2 — Keyboard Skills

Lesson 4 of 580%

(Progress persistence is disabled until Phase 9)

Typing Speed
Beginner
5 mins

Typing Code Efficiently

Learn how to optimize your typing specifically for writing code.

Typing prose is very different from typing code. Code is heavily reliant on symbols, brackets, and indentation.

Brackets and Quotes

Always let your IDE close brackets for you if it supports it, but if you are doing raw typing, practice reaching for {, [, and ( without breaking your home row posture too much.

Example Code

Try practicing reaching for the shift key to hit the curly braces:

function init() {
  const arr = [];
}

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