Words You Always Type Incorrectly
 

No, I don't mean misspell. I mean type wrong. The word is spelled absolutely properly in your head but something goes wrong between your brains and your hands ...

A few of mine that I have noticed:

Philadlephia

hopsital

tha tfollowed by any other string of words. Somehow the second "t" detaches on me.

I transpose certain letter combos all the time. the is often teh, but mostly it is the left hand which is slower ont eh draw.

I think it is from a C6/7 injury which has left my left hand in a permanent state of semi numbness and general stupidity. Of course I am mostly left handed.

I used to be able to type. I mean really type, blank keys and all, then I got bad habits, I'm still ok, but not a stealthy ninja typsit. <-- see?

expecially

Pretty dyslexic here... so there are quite a few that I transpose, more than I can name really. Lots of "i/e" problems.

teh, tow for two, picking the wrong "their" or mishandling "its" by reflex; all the usuals. It does seem to be a matter of touch-typing reflexes. Otherwise, only my Backspace key knows. Fastest editing tool I've got.

Eh, for me its mostly dropping apostrophies that I dont need, much to UG's chagrin, though i have a tendancy to turn words like 'car' or 'care' or something like that into 'caro', which is my girlfriend's name, cause I'm so used to typing it.

jsut gets me everytime.

Paual (paula) does too.

I dont bother with apostrophes anymore, cant be bothered with them.

Sometimes when I'm not paying attention, I spell things phonetically. Other than that, I mix up things like "there", "their" or "they're" since they sound alike.

I am reminded at this juncture of the freudian slip. You know when you mean to say something like "Please pass the salt." But instead it comes out as "You bitch, you've ruined my life!"

I type teh alot. I place th elas tletter of words on the next word (spastic syncopation on the space bar, from a drummer?) I type ; for '

first good chuckle of the day:
 

I have to type the words "transaction" and "verification" a lot and find myself transposing letters. Some time ago, when I was still married, I was Typing While Intoxicated and I told my husband "I hate these little parentheses that keep coming out of my fingers." We immediately made a sign with that sentence on it that, as far as I know, is still hanging inside his computer hutch door!

If an uppercase letter is followed by a lowercase "a," I always type an uppercase "a" by mistake.

TAke this as an example.

I do that too, glatt. When I am making notes in a student electronic file I have to keep backspacing and fixing it because I am so OC!

It often comes out "Windoes". Funny, it still sounds right. w and e bein' neighbors and all.

It's not necessarily ceratin words that throw me off. it is more that I taught myself how to trpy and keep htiing the wrong letters. it also fdonesn't (doesn't) help that somethimes my fingers move faster than tmy midn does and puts in extra letters. It's like mt fingers are completing to see who is the dasted and just end up hitting random letters or wletters out of order completely. I also can't spel to well.

I decided to tyep this post without isring the backspace hjey. Good lucj teranslating

(just imagine how long it would take me to type p a papre in college_

Ooo. I want to try typing without th ebackspace. Hopefully it comes out okay since I have to tpe all day anyway. Dang, this is harder athn it looks.

I don't know if I can type withouth the backspace it's so ingrtained...in fact just tried to use it when I wanted a comma and hadn't put one.

It really is hard. M y biggest problem si that when I learnd to typw it was while looking at the jeybora. If i am not thingking about it, I don't have a problem, but as soo as I fo, then the words are all wrong and I have to slook down atyain. Wow - that post wasn't too bad!!

If you literally always transpose certain things, I guess you could get Microsoft's free Keyboard Layout Creator.

I like the keyboard the way it is. I took typing my senior year of HS. Many of my friends had been taking office type classes all along, but I was in college prep classes. Thought I would take typing in case I ever needed it, and had more than filled my requirements of needed classes.

This was back in the day before computers. The room was divided into manual and electric typewriters, and your font choices were pica and elite.

Never thought I would need typing. But, I learned the basics, finger placements, no looking, etc...so that when I started using a computer I had the basics down...it was just a matter of perfecting it through practice. I'm a pretty decent typist now, but thank goodness for backspace.

It was like in basketball in HS...if you learn the correct fundamentals of shooting...the shots will come.

I never took a typinf class. Yhis it wjat it looks loke when I tu;e withiut looking at the keubostf or using the baxkspace key. I suvk.

Awww, no you don't glatt. You don't suvk, not by a long shot. :p

I always type reublican as repubican. I don't know why. Ok, I know why - I do it on purpose.

Oh, and I typically type retail as reatail.

i see vast computer prank potential

I can type fairly well without using the backspack key, but a sfew little mistakes are boung to happen.

Thats not so bad I guess, but it chace to make a conscious effort to mut use it

bugger, i dd stuff us a few huh?

Someone gave me an old typewriter back in the 80's, when I was in electronic school. I got a typing made simple book and was fair, but no more till I got a pooter in 99. Still can't spell. When I use the shift key to make a Cap. I get 3 or 4 caps before I getr my pinkie off. Grammer? forget it.

ha ha ha I actually never thought of that. But KLC is bitchin' for all kinds of stuff.

typing this post without backspace disnt that hard, only one mistake so far!

Zippyt checkin in !!!

I took typing for a year in highschool. I'll always be glad I did because now I can type a post on a MB while watching what my kids are doing. ;)

ps. I even did the smilie without looking.

Almost anything starting with a "t" seems to turn out in every possible combination of to, too, two, the, their, there, etc. If it starts with a "t" and only has a few letters in the word, my mind seems to disconnect and my fingers select any of the above without context. Also, when typing in Spanish I tend to change any "a" word ending to an "e". If I don't catch it, it sometimes just produces the present subjunctive form of the verb but usually it just produces nonsense. I don't know why my fingers want to change that "a" to an "e" except that some cognates change the english ending of "e" to an "a" in Spanish so my brain must be trying to reverse engineer it. The most annoying mistype I do is, beginning about 6 years ago, the capital letters at the beginning of words stopped showing up. It was like my little fingers stopped having enough pressure on the shift key to produce the capital although i was typing it correctly. There, it just did it again, the I did not capitalize. Oh well, it is rather egotistical of English to capitalize that letter anyway ;)

Me too, but a little ways into the school year, due to administrative fuck-up, my schedule changed and I got switched to a different instructor. The new instructor was teaching the class nothing like the other one, and I was totally lost, not anywhere near at the same skill level as her students. I guess my old instructor had sucked or something, I don't know. I told my counselors that I really wanted to do well in this class, but this wasn't working for me. They said there was nothing they could do about it, they couldn't work with me to change my schedule, nothing. Just do your best.

Okay, well... I didn't want to fail the class, and she was giving timed exams (which I had never had before) so I started looking at my hands. I never learned to type correctly. Luckily for me I have the reflexes and muscle-memory of a drummer, so I do okay. But I'm still pissed about that.

We had Mavis Beacon back in elementary school. We started learning in 2nd grade, I think. But when I moved to Singapore, I found they didn't teach typing at all. Blessed be for my old school...

You don't want to see my post without the backspace. I mess up on at least half of what I type. And wheyn I try to not use the backspace, I have to acturally stop typing to make myself not hit it. There that isn't so bad, but I am gtyping only havelf as fast as I mornally do. Gosh
Oh, and I gtook typing in giigh scool too

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