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When typing, get the letters in the odd word or two jumbled up? It is something that I seem to do more and more often of late :thinking: Is it an early sign of elctronic dementia?
 
All the time and some words are repeat offenders...'regards' is my worst. I also find I get double letters wrong, quite accidentally I just typed letters as leeters. Dementia or incompetence? :D
 
I'm the opposite, I'll spend longer correcting a post than it takes to write it sometimes.
 
u8myufo said:
When typing, get the letters in the odd word or two jumbled up? It is something that I seem to do more and more often of late :thinking: Is it an early sign of elctronic dementia?
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I find that I mispell words on a keyboard that I would never mispell when hand writing them.
 
My observation is that too few people learn to touch type these days. Too many hunt and peck and therefore make errors.
 
I always get my ld and ng around the wrong way (eg woudl instead of would and lightign instead of lighting )

My eye is trained to spot these now though. That said, I touch type too. But brain is quicker than fingers...
 
I also miss words out completely...or is that spelling them very badly.
 
Of late I have developed a knack of hitting the space bar before I have finished typing a word that ends with an e. so th ee ends up on th ebegining of th enext word. If I concentrate when typing I can avoid doing it but if I concentrate on doing something else whilst typing Then I hit the space bar too early. Why it's only on the letter e and not others, I don't know.
 
I do this constantly. One of the words I type the most and mistype the most is photography. Oh the irony

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Yep - especially on this new Dell which seems to record two letters occasionally if I hit the keys too hard...
 
Photodiva said:
My observation is that too few people learn to touch type these days. Too many hunt and peck and therefore make errors.
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Well working on the mechanised side of the PO for a few years I learnt to type. Ok I know it was only postcodes but it still had a querty board. My average was 2800 items an hour, so multiply that by a mixture of 6 letters and numbers per postcode and you get roughly 16800 keystrokes an hour, and this was with an error rate of less than 1%. As mentioned there is always the offending words that it happens with, and it is always the smallest and simplest words to spell :D
 
Arkady said:
Yep - especially on this new Dell which seems to record two letters occasionally if I hit the keys too hard...
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I think you have put your finger on it :lol: My son bought me a new keyboard for my birthday which has a soft touch feel to it, my old one which you had to hit with a hammer was no probs as such.
 
I do this quite a lot i think my fingers work faster than my brain :thinking:

Something else i do is if a word has a double letter in it i put the previous letter in as the double letter.

leeter instead of letter for example :bonk:
 
I do, I always seem to write the word they as thye when typing
 
Photodiva said:
My observation is that too few people learn to touch type these days. Too many hunt and peck and therefore make errors.
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Agree with this completely. It amazes me that for instance my Doctor taps and hunts around with one finger:D Considering you can find a free course for touch typing easily on the net, and with a bit of application can reach a reasonable standard in a few weeks.

The Army taught me by the way:D, still hit 60wpm when in practice!!!
 
I am always writing jsut instead of just, and for that I apologise!! I really should take more time to write properly, but I think it's my fingers working faster than my little brain!!
 
Two words that I do it with all the time :

The . . .Teh
Finance . . . Fiance

Problem with the second one is that the spellchecker won't pick it up, and since I work in finance it can be a bit embarrassing if it looks like I'm sending an EMail out to my loved one :lol: :lol: :lol:

Another one that the spellchecker didn't pick up. . .
I once missed out the "f" in shift in an EMail to the logistics director.
I ended up telling him that he'd overutilised his **** allowance for the month . . . Oooops!!!!
 
I always spell because like: becasue ... I have NO idea why, just happens :thinking:
 
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