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RE: keyboard hrs vs non-keyboard hrs

Subject: RE: keyboard hrs vs non-keyboard hrs
From: "John Fleming" <johntwrl -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:39:25 +0000


From: siliconwriter -at- comcast -dot- net (Sarah Stegall)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.techwr-l
Subject: keyboard hrs vs non-keyboard hrs
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:35:02 -0800

As i sit here recovering from CTS surgery, I am trying to come up with an estimation of how much impact this wll have on my work schedule.
What would you folks say is a good number for the amount of time you actually spend typing text? I came up w/2 hours a day, which seems woefully little. However, we're in the early developpment stage of the product (software), so I spend a bunch of time reading specs and interviewing. I would say that when I'm really cranking, I can do 4-5 hrs keyboarding a day.

Thoughts?

Interesting question, and I am not how I would come up with an estimate.

In my job, I need to do a fair amount of reading, and on a day where I do a lot of reading, one to two hours of keyboarding might be ambitious.

Ditto for days where I am in meetings, making phone calls, and chasing down people who have answers to my questions.

On a day I'm writing database queries and doing a lot of coding, three to five hours is more realistic. I'm not doing a lot of typing while the big database queries are running. And some of those queries can take up to twenty minutes to run.

On a day like today, which will be mostly writing, five to six hours.

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John Fleming
Technical Writer
Edmonton, Alberta



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