You can have the best of both world with an IDE with good autocomplete where you only have to type a few characters and hit tab most of the time, resulting in less time typing and improved legibility.
What experience are you basing that on? That has never happened to me. It shows you what it's going to put in before it puts it in and gives you a drop-down menu.
Well, that's correcting the choice, only before its applied, what has little impact on how much attention the IDE grabs from you.
I've had both before and after application errors, on different IDEs and different codebases (some sets of names change the probability distribution). But Visual Studio seems to be the worst ofender, stealing not only the up and down arrows for navigation, but also open parentesis, space, enter, period, and colon, for application... and I'm sure I forgot some keys.
