Bluntly, yes, if you want to be fast and efficient. I often assert that the most valuable class I took in high school was a typing class, ironically. Not what I expected at the time. I wasn’t great after that semester, maybe 25 wpm, but once the foundations were in place it only improved from there.
It also makes everything faster from the command line, once your body is wired to deliver instructions via keyboard. Humans can talk at a high wpm rate but typing can compress complex contextual meaning into a few twitches of the fingers. Typing can be significantly more compressed than speaking.
I still think typing is a low-key high-leverage skill that anyone can learn in a relatively short period of time. The lower barrier to entry, the ease of acquiring the skill, and the value in diverse contexts recommends it.
FWIW, I have known astonishingly fast “hunt and peck” typers. While adequate, they were always at an absolute disadvantage in terms of how quickly they could deliver value. Having seen both cases in real-world environments, hunt-and-peck severely handicaps the people that can only operate that way. Learn to touch type.
One should also learn some of the more used the key chords for whatever development environment they are in since that simply amplifies the typing speed and reduces the cognitive burden
It also makes everything faster from the command line, once your body is wired to deliver instructions via keyboard. Humans can talk at a high wpm rate but typing can compress complex contextual meaning into a few twitches of the fingers. Typing can be significantly more compressed than speaking.
I still think typing is a low-key high-leverage skill that anyone can learn in a relatively short period of time. The lower barrier to entry, the ease of acquiring the skill, and the value in diverse contexts recommends it.