I would vote for learning how to create an alias in your .bash_profile file. That will save actual keystrokes and actual time...especially for repetitive tasks.
Pop the following into your .bash_profile and replace with a real directory path:
alias workdir='cd ~/some/long/path/you/use/a/lot/for/coding'
Then you can run 'workdir' in your command line and get to that directory really quickly. Lots of other stuffs and things you can do with an alias.