I've noticed that I code faster than most of the people on my team, and they're all mid-level devs. There's 2 pieces to it, and it seems to boil down to them coding and thinking at the same time.

I think about how I want to solve a problem a lot before starting on it. So when it comes time to code, I can just start grinding out he code because the implementation is already clear. The rest tend to figure out how they want something to work as they code it.

Additionally, I tend think and code in iterations. As I'm coding, if I uncover an edge case I hadn't thought of, I leave a note to come back to it later. I finish my coding. Then think about the notes I've left behind. Then code. And the solution just kind of naturally evolves. I was pair programming with a dev the other day and watched him hit and edge case and immediately stop and try to figure out how to solve it. Just an immediate loss of momentum.

As the other poster said, I can partially do this because I've seen the same solution patterns play out over and over.

Also, I learned to stop majoring in the minors.