Why am I prone to typos?

[malumbu]

S'truth I make so many mistakes typing. Spell checks and the like have been a Godsend and helped improve my spelling and grammar no end.

Yet I am prone to silly typos, as I see when I reread some of my posts.

I explain this as I can touch type and much of what I post is a brain dump. The simple answer is not to send things immediately as I have learned (or learnt?) with e-mails.

Do I have a syndrome? Am I special? I could Google this but hopefully will get some interesting views.

In old school days if I was writing by hand I would not make the same mistakes as typing. And I immediately spot it when others make basic mistakes/typos

I did try a hand written letter in the recent past and found it so hard....

(not intended to be Briticism of those with dyslexia)

[flocker spotter]

it gives pedants a reason to get up and fill their idle days. Consider it a selfless community act

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Typing muscle memory. I always type form when I want to type from. And add an irritant space to my name and an extra n. Always. My fingers seem to just to want to do it. I look down at the keyboard when I'm doing it. See it happening.

[lavender27]

Its called typowritis syndrome.

[malumbu]

Thanks, sorry on reflection this is a bit self-indulgent. Must be the heat.

[PeckhamNicola]

If I call out Briticism does the klaxon sound, like on QI? Does klaxon have two xs?

[Seabag]

I do it all the time, but you could type into ?notes? on an I-phone and once happy then copy and paste

Instagram allows multiple corrections

[Dom Johnston]

I personally think that a lot of it is because we've become so reliant on spell check and autocorrect now that we don't tend to check and just expect things to be right.

[JohnL]

Typing at work before someone sees u :)

[Elphinstone's Army]

dyslexics rule K.O.