Typing Speed, Claude Code, and Two Small Wins

Two small developer-life updates: hitting 82wpm on a typing test, and my first impressions after finally trying Claude Code.

Not every post needs to be a lesson from a three-month internship. Some weeks the win is smaller — here are two from mine, both first shared on X/@_naman14.

82wpm

I finally sat down and ran a proper typing test: 82 words per minute. Not fast by touch-typist standards, but a jump from where I started, and a reminder that typing speed is one of the few developer skills you can improve with fifteen minutes a day and zero context-switching cost.

If you're a developer and have never actually measured your typing speed, Monkeytype is worth the fifteen minutes.

First impressions of Claude Code

I got access to Claude Code and spent an evening seeing what the hype was about. The part that stood out wasn't code generation — it's fine, other tools do that too — it was how much of the surrounding workflow it handles: reading across a whole repo before editing, running the build to check its own work, and writing git commits without me babysitting every step.

One running joke from testing it (and Sonnet specifically): it has a noticeable habit of wanting to create a .md file to document every small task, whether or not anyone asked for one. Harmless, but a good reminder to always review what an agent decides to add, not just what it changes.

If you want to try it yourself: claude.com/product/claude-code. Source for this site is on GitHub.