I just took this online typing test and found out that I type 73 words a minute with a 97.5 % accuracy rate, which I assume is average at best.
It would be nice to be able to type faster, but I'm not going to waste any cycles trying to improve at this point because I think that typing speed means very little in the overall scheme of developer productivity. Someone who pecks away 20 words a minute but has deep technical knowledge, sound design skills, a logical thought process, and a mastery of productivity tools and debugging tools will outproduce someone who is just an average developer but has super-human typing skills by an order of magnitude. I'd rather spend my time mastering Resharper hot-key combinations and figuring out how to leverage a good ORM tool like NHibernate so I don't have to write as much tedious data access code than I would trying to squeeze out a few extra words a minute from my typing. Even increasing my reading speed would likely have a much more profound affect on my overall coding speed than typing would because it would allow me to read as many geek books as Justice.
That being said, it is just painful to watch an otherwise talented and experienced programmer peck away with two fingers. We have a senior developer we have on staff gets teased mercilessly about his rather lackluster typing skills. To be fair, he has done well to mitigate his handicap by being an advanced Resharper user. Nevertheless, I hereby challenge him to take this typing test.
For the record, I in no way condone whatever devious public display of humiliation that his other co-workers will surely devise to punish him for an embarrassingly low score (although I reserve the right to laugh whole-heartedly). I would recommend, however, that this test be supervised to avoid cheating. I would also like to get a head start on the wagering by laying claim to 25 words a minute. Let the games begin...