Are there words that your fingers want to spell wrong?

In My Humble Opinion
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There are a number of words that I keep finding my fingers typing wrong (only when typing, not if I hand write the words) - the error is consistent and it isn’t just sloppy spelling - I know how to spell them, but when I look at what my hands have typed, it’s wrong.

There are more, but the first two that spring to mind are:
Confusion - I even had to correct it when I typed it here - I know what I wanted to type, but my hands just wanted to spell it confuction.

Soul - again, even though I was really concentrating this time, it came out Sould, as usual.

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My index fingers seem to race to get ahead of each other…Manchetser, Shcool, Cotnract, etc.

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Consistently, the main one is “damn,” which almost inevitably comes out “dman.”

I’m guessing it’s a combination of two factors – one, I use it mostly in IM, so I don’t have as much practice with it as other words; and two, the “man” ending is pretty common, esp. since my last name ends in those three letters.

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That Michigan city where the cars used to come from: Detriot.

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I jsut cannot get my fingers to get the letters in the word jsut to be in the right order.

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My #1 most frequent typo is ‘form’ when I mean ‘from.’

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Sometimes when I go to type a word that starts with the same couple of letters as my name, my fingers automatically just finish my name.

a lot of times, I just “space bar” wrong. E.g., instead of writing “in the” I’ll write “int he”.

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On a UNIX workstation I’m constantly doing a “more” on files but a quarter of the time type “mroe”, so much so that I’ve aliased the typo.

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I do thes ame thing sometimes.

Last night I finally realized why I catch myself typing “play” when I mean “okay”. I wondered why on earth I’d confuse the two in my mind but I saw how close the keys were.

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A couple come to mind immediately: univeristy and wroth (worth)

There’s one word I consistently screw up when hand writing checks: thrity. I’ll write a check for thrity three dollars.

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I have several:

[ul]
[li]Woudl and Shoudl instead of would and should. This happens EVERY time I type them.[/li][li]I also do “form” instead of from[/li][li]My own name (!): I type Toyn instead of Tony[/li][/ul]

the worst of it is when I have my auto-spell check review my emails and I mis-type in a way that reflects another real word (see “form”).

Y’know…instead of that AP Physics class in HS, I really should have taken typing. I also wish I would have taken Autos 1 instead of the Psych 2 class. Both would have been more useful.

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For me it’s csutomer. A real pain in the kiester, considering i work in Tech Support and have to type that word a hundred times a day.

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I do univeristy too, which is bad since I work at one, and often mail things to other univeristies, and I spell it wrong in the address labels. I even spelled it wrong when I first set up the AutoCorrect (I just type U now in Word)

And I thought I’d be the first to say “my own name”, which my fingers think is Vcotria.

and lucnh. Every time.

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I almost cannot type “star” without typing “start” and erasing the last t.

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**Are there words that your fingers want to spell wrong? **

Why, yes. Too many to name.

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charector, I mean, character

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Will they allow you to use “client” instead? Or “nimrod”?

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I often sign things “Gweb” (bot my real name :wink: )

Washingotn when I lived in DC and had to type that a lot
Lebabon (bot the real name of a MidEast country :wink: )
overwhleming

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I do this too. “our” and “your” are always swapped.

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I’m always muddling up the short, similarly sounding words; be and me, an & and are the worst offenders.