Oh I agree it's not for everyone. I'm just saying what might be the reason from a historical perspective.
Gamers are proficient in their niche; game playing. However if the job is to hammer out 400 lines of code or a manual, I'd back an expert touch-typist proficient with Vim over a gamer every time.
It's difficult to explain; the kind of people I'm talking about are experts in not just typing; they are super-proficient in coding as well. They have the text in their head, they just want to feed it to the computer in the shortest time possible. I've sat and watched an Unix guru create a program from scratch with Vi - it's a marvel, it's quite like watching an expert race car driver, if you're into that sort of thing.
Gamers are proficient in their niche; game playing. However if the job is to hammer out 400 lines of code or a manual, I'd back an expert touch-typist proficient with Vim over a gamer every time.
It's difficult to explain; the kind of people I'm talking about are experts in not just typing; they are super-proficient in coding as well. They have the text in their head, they just want to feed it to the computer in the shortest time possible. I've sat and watched an Unix guru create a program from scratch with Vi - it's a marvel, it's quite like watching an expert race car driver, if you're into that sort of thing.