Is It Possible For Fingers To Become Dyslexic?

Henry Minute

Roger Wright wrote:

I frequently mistype simple words

I have been suffering from this for some time, and now my 'H' finger has stopped working altogether. I keep typng tings like te and tis. Do you think CP might be passing a virus?

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Paul Conrad

Roger Wright wrote:

never had any trouble typing on a keyboard. But lately it seems I'm spending more time fondling the backspace key than any other.

I've had that happen before. Adjustments to coffee/Dr. Pepper/:beer: have been fixes for that :-D Adjusting up or down? It is something that needs to be fiddled with. Texting on the blackberry seems to work for some odd reason, too.

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PIEBALDconsult

I find that it happens when I try to type with more than one finger; try typing with only one finger. The worst was a computer I used in the mid-'80s (an Amstrad 1512?), writing Pascal, SET would always come out SETF -- apparently having S, E, and T pressed at the same time yielded F as well, much like a TI calculator. :mad:

Lost User

Henry Minute wrote:

Do you think CP might be passing a virus?

Yes, my virus scanner has detected a virus called User.Win32.Urgentz[^] and its been spreading all over the world. Best Wishes, -David Delaune

Hamed Musavi

Hmm... Stragne I enver hda suhc a probelm.

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Duncan Edwards Jones

It seems to be to do with which hand is in charge of the next letter - when the same hand has to do two followed by a change of hands the instructions can get out of synch... Tie your left hand behind your back and the problem will be solved. (Other problems may appear however)

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Eric Goedhart

No :)

With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart

Lost User

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akwilliam

just relax

Reelix

Gawd - Happens to me all the time :( My most common ones: time -> tiem test -> tset the -> teh (That one might be my fault though...)

-= Reelix =-

CheWasEre2006

I did a great one on my nokia some time ago - I was texting a prospective girlfriend and missed a letter. due to the predictive text, i told her that i wanted to put my vomit down her throat..... We never got it on.

Peter Mulholland

I have been doing that alot, function regularly came out as fucntion. and there were one or 2 other words that i consistently swapped 2 letters in. I have noticed i don't do it any more since i moved back home from asterdam.

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M Towler

In short, yes. In Oliver Sacks popular science book "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" he discusses musicians who suffer from various forms of dystonia - a confusion of notes and fingers. The proposed mechanism for this is that by playing scales over and over very quickly the parts of the brain dealing with each finger can occasionally become 'blurred' resulting in the wrong finger being used occasionally. He details several remedies for this that work for some. He also says that for some players what helps is to avoid music with many scales. To me it does not seem much of a leap to compare the learning of scales with learning complex series of keyboard sequences, so exactly the same things could be happening. I would recommend reading the above book, and perhaps also changing your password/editor etc. so that you have to learn some different sequences.

DRew Hinge

We all do it... its a fault of those that are considered to be 'experienced usre's' of computers (laptops of desktops). our fingers hit the button that we 'think' is the correct one and generally its the one underneath or alongside the one we meant to hit. (And I've been using comps for 37 years)

Kizul Emeraldfire

I've always been a slight bit dyslexic when it comes to typing — as evidenced tiem after time (that was on purpose, incidentally). I've also done 'teh' a lot, but I can manage to correct 'teh' and 'tiem' most of the time. Recently, however, I've noticed that my fingers have taken up spelling anything that has the letters 'ua' in that order as 'au' — rendering 'actually' as 'actaully'. It MIGHT just be my keyboard, but it's STILL annoying. :mad:

maccer

me too!! And I have been trying for years to stop it, unsuccessfully. Also the word "the" I always write as teh. This is not a problem since its always picked up by the (corrected) spell checker. As form and from are both words it can make thigns more difficult. I blame the good ol' days of having to define "form" tags for data to be submitted to teh server before the concept of page postbacks came into play with .NET.

Jim O C

This happens to me a lot as well, especially when I am typing in at constant speed rather then just in short bursts, like in code. My personal opinion on why it happens is that your fingers have developed muscle memory for certain words so they know how to type them without your brain being engaged. Then when you start thinking about the words you are typing, your brain and your fingers get out of synch, your brain tells your fingers to type the 'h' when your fingers are already moving on to the 'e' and you end up with 'teh' as the two signals fight with each other. My solution to it was to simply slow down a bit, or let word autocorrect sort it out for me :) Of course this does require you to remove the words 'from' and 'form' from the dictionary or you end up sending your boss a message with 'Please find attached the from form helpdesk' :)

Joan M

Believe it or not it also happens to me in some circumstances... the most typical mistake I make is to maintain the shift key pressed too much time and to write the two first letters on a word in capital letters... Also I miss sometimes the keys and it annoys me a lot... Usually this has happened more when changed the keyboard. I bet it is the age and the amount of coffee...

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Rob Philpott

maccer wrote:

Also the word "the" I always write as teh. This is not a problem since its always picked up by the (corrected) spell checker

maccer wrote:

submitted to teh server

:)

Regards, Rob Philpott.

christopher merritt

This talks around the issue you raise, but my mentor in programming wrote his own word processor and included two keystroke operations to rectify this problem: CTL + Backspace would "remove" a character behind the cursor (and "push" it into the copy buffer) & CTL + Shift + Backspace would "insert" a character behind the cursor (effectively a "pop" from the copy buffer). Thus by pressing CTL + Backspace twice and then CTL + Shift + Backspace twice, one would effectively transpose the two characters behind the cursor. He went on to add another two keystroke operations (CTL + Delete and CTL + Shift + Delete) to effect similar operations on the charaters in front of the cursor. Lysdexia, being what it is, meant that my computer sometimes mysteriouly rebooted while I was effecting transpositions in front of the cursor The fact that he had the foresight to build this into his product offering, as well as the fact those particular keys were well worn-out on my laptop (and I do mean laptop) seems to be positive affirmation that fingers do indeed become dyslexic. One curious bye-product of his transpose functionality was, dare I say "puzzling": .ecnetnes eritne na esrever ylisae dluoc eno I miss those keystrokes!