Ed's Big Plans

Brief: There are a few typos that I consistently make. I have concluded that these things have been trained into my brain some how. No matter how much I want to correct them, they just keep showing up. Even conscious efforts to “not type it wrongly this time” are only partially successful. It’s … like a speech impediment for my fingers.

Part of me wants to conjecture about motion planning, the cerebellum, buffer overruns and the QWERTY layout — but a larger part would rather not.

Here’s a list of words that get these automatic typos — Yes, I know I use four fingers on my left hand plus three fingers on my right hand to type — I think this scheme was inherited from an obsession with the DooM series of first person shooters when I was a primordial computer user.

• total → totoal — redundantly drummed ‘o’ with right middle finger.
• schematics → schemaitcs — incorrect priority given to right middle finger ‘i’ over left index ‘t’.
• blast → blasy — incorrectly increased reaching distance between left middle finger ‘s’ to left index ‘y’.
• desktop → dekstop — incorrect priority given to right middle finger ‘k’ over left index ‘s’.
• people → poeple — incorrect priority given to right middle finger ‘o’ over left middle ‘e’.

If you have a patch for my brain, please let me know.