There's more to code than just code. Most of us write a lot of emails every day, and hopefully most of us write a fair bit of documentation also :)
How efficiently you can communicate with the machine is critical in programming because of the above, not because you're somehow faster at typing code - your brain cannot generate code at 60wpm anyway. Typing quickly, though, certainly takes away barriers to trying new things and prototyping really quickly.
How efficiently you can communicate with the machine is critical in programming because of the above, not because you're somehow faster at typing code - your brain cannot generate code at 60wpm anyway. Typing quickly, though, certainly takes away barriers to trying new things and prototyping really quickly.