Keyboard time with coding is maybe 5 to 10% of the time spent as a programmer.
Much of the time is spent researching, designing, analyzing, debugging and testing.
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That ten 10% goes like this though right?:
forgot to mention, 1% of the time is spent snickering and cackling at something found to be funny in the codebase, or the realizing of how a dumb bug came to be. if you ever see a programmer laughing at lines of code on a screen and you ask whats so funny, you may want to be prepared to lose half an hour of your life while they excitedly try to explain it to you
My personal record is in the order of 12 hours of bug hunting, where the fix turned out to be to delete a single character.