User blog comment:Kirkburn/The expanding world of the VisualEditor/@comment-4189499-20141002011135/@comment-961279-20141004163150

I'll add this just for perspective. I can usually type faster than it would take to use the the tools the VisualEditor offers. I also turn off the spellcheck and word suggest on the programs and devices I have because they slow me down and I learned in school how to do my own spellchecking. I have a work-issued device that has the word suggest featured locked down so that it can't be turned off, and I spend a lot of time trying to correct mistakes because it is so busy trying to suggest what word it thinks I might want to use that it mis-detects what keys I'm pressing.

That being said, I'm happy to hear that the VE is being improved, especially in the department of reducing the number of "dirty diffs" that occur. It's going to be a great help for new editors and people who are used to those style of tools.