yeah, I mean, when you get a certain adeptness at typing, you don't need to look at the keyboard OR the screen. I've answered verbal questions looking at the person, while finishing typing a sentence about something else (and used to do so pretty regularly when I worked in the office). The maximum tier is being able to backspace the correct number of characters back to the mistake.... hahah (not something I've really managed, that I can recall)

Ctrl-w or ctrl-backspace backspaces away the whole word and then you can just retype it. Often faster than trying to continue somewhere in the middle.

Ooh, somehow didn't ever think of that - that's definitely the preferred way for me to go about it - thanks!

Lucky you. In my previous job I had to work many hours a day over SSH or even RDP on servers an ocean away (servers in the SF region, I worked remotely from europe).

One thing I used to do to every computer I owned was to turn the keyboard repeat rate up to the max. Made typing feel much faster.

Have you tried SSH over Mosh? (or rather, mosh over ssh)

Btw, you can use mosh to hide the latency of SSH. https://mosh.org/

On a slow ssh connections, I prefer to close my eyes while typing, to avoid distraction by the delay on screen. I have better accuracy this way