If you want to get faster at PLC programming in the SCL language, in addition to practicing over and over, you need to know some tricks to level up your speed beyond what it is now. To do this, you can learn how to surround program code with structural elements and be aware of SCL instructions data types and how to modify them, especially in IEC timers and counters. Also, by reading this tutorial, you will learn how to display and hide tag information in the SCL editor to evaluate your application code while typing it to speed up your programming.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.solisplc.com/tutorials/scl-instruction-data-types-and-tag-information