andrew van dam

im fascinated by what typos reveal about how my brain processes information.

usually, it's phonetic, like typing "bounts" when i told my fingers to write "bounce"

but today i kept typing "gcew" instead of "qcew" in reference to the quarterly census of employment and wages, revealing there's a shape-of-letter component too!!

this happens to everybody, right?? what else have you noticed?

Sep 19, 2023 at 2:56pmWeb
Show threadDstambaughSep 19, 2023
@andrewvandam
What I think of as "typing dyslexia," for example typing an L instead of an S.
Show threadandrew van damSep 19, 2023

@dstambaugh that seems so reasonable! i'm a little stunned it doesn't happen to me, since in real life i can't tell right from left.

another visual one i often do is 0 instead of o, even though I don't look at my keyboard to type.