Jamie Brandon on improving how fast he can work.

There are ~33k characters in the rematch repo, most of which are tests. I type ~500 characters per minute. So if I could sit down and type the correct code first time, without making mistakes or getting distracted, it would take 66 minutes. I don’t see any fundamental reason why I shouldn’t be able to at least approach that bound for such simple code - maybe get within 3 hours, say. So there is potentially room for another 10x speedup.

So let’s suppose a 10x speedup is within reach…