Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
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Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Lately I spend a lot of time on discord text channels and one thing that I noticed is that I made a lot of typos but some of them are strange. Seem like my brain got a bit scrambled.
For example sometime when I to type "want", I ended up with "one".
Anyone has experience like that? Is that normal for a brain to function like that? In my head it is "want" but my fingers type "one".
For example sometime when I to type "want", I ended up with "one".
Anyone has experience like that? Is that normal for a brain to function like that? In my head it is "want" but my fingers type "one".
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Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
I make typos all the time because my typing fingers are slower than my brain. I'm thinking many words a head of what I'm typing and the next thing I know I typing the word a couple of words a head for what I'm thinking now.
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And I thought I was having deja vu.
There are some words my fingers get wrong every time. Whenever I want to type "globe," it comes out "bloge" unless I slow down and think about it deliberately. I haven't noticed this getting worse with age, but I can't remember being young so who knows.
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I may ahve occasionally typed a totally differnt word than I emant to but it is rare.
My problem is my fingers tend to hit the keys i nthe wrong order when I'm typing fast.
So I purposely left the errors above to show you my most common typos. Those are actual errors and not me doing it on purpose.
If I slow down it doesn't happen. And "in the" or "on the" often ends up like above, more so than me getting it right. And I constantly swap letter next to each other.
My problem is my fingers tend to hit the keys i nthe wrong order when I'm typing fast.
So I purposely left the errors above to show you my most common typos. Those are actual errors and not me doing it on purpose.
If I slow down it doesn't happen. And "in the" or "on the" often ends up like above, more so than me getting it right. And I constantly swap letter next to each other.
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
I notice that at some times, my mind will map my fingers wrong a bit...then it goes away. For instance, I kept hitting 'p' for 9. It happened for a bit, but after concentrating on not doing it, stopped. <shrug>
Then again, I repeat myself...more. Hitting 50 seems to have kicked off all sorts of crap at times.
Then again, I repeat myself...more. Hitting 50 seems to have kicked off all sorts of crap at times.
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I'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
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I also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to timeLordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 amI'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
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It's especially strange to me that I can't see my mistakes until they are nested in your quote "I really don't see an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping me around"Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 amI also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to timeLordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 amI'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
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I often do the missing word also. Spellcheck can't catch that unfortunately.LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:19 amIt's especially strange to me that I can't see my mistakes until they are nested in your quote "I really don't see an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping me around"Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 amI also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to timeLordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 amI'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
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Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
I never see your mistakes either. I've gotten very good at translating from LordMortis-ese in my head.LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:19 amIt's especially strange to me that I can't see my mistakes until they are nested in your quote "I really don't see an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping me around"Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:06 amI also do the mysterious missing word thing from time to timeLordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:07 amI'm still around after decades of this. Of course my health is for shit at 50 and I really don't an improved lifestyle I intend to keep when I get to retirement or medicine keeping around, so maybe you're on to something.
I find myself with a lot more strange typos but 100% due to using a phone keyboard.
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Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
Easier to make typos when autocorrect jumps ahead before you're able to notice anything is out of place. I'd have times where I correct it and have it autocorrected back.
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Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
My most common mistakes are capitalizing the first two letters of a word, or getting the space swrong. Also leaving off n't from contractions sometimes. That can make a big difference.
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It's like the biggest impact three characters can have. Also don't know what to do about it except be hyper vigilant.LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:45 pmI do that a lot and I don't know why or how to stop it. Explicitly affirming instead of explicitly negating and not seeing until it's too late sucks it big time.
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Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:49 pmIt's like the biggest impact three characters can have. Also dont know what to do about it except be hyper vigila.LordMortis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:45 pmI do that a lot and I don't know why or how to stop it. Explicitly affirming instead of explicitly negating and not seeing until it's too late sucks it big time.
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Re: Strange typos. Sign of getting old?
What I like about OO is you can correct such typos if you catch them in time, or just blame LM. Other forums aren't so forgiving, and that can lead to much embarrassment.
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What are these 'other forums' you mention?
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Funny you should mention this. About a year ago (at 50...hmmmm) I noticed I type a ; when I want a ' ALMOST EVERY TIME. I have never made this mistake before. If I ever get pod-personed, they'll know it's not me if they correctly type contractions.
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I started doing this also in the past few years. It's like my pinkie has gotten too lazy to go one more key.
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I still can't type Morrowind without typing Morrowing every damn time for some reason.
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