Typing ahead

SwiftFox
SwiftFox Community Member Posts: 1,493 Championing
in Everyday life

Does anyone else have that problem when typing or writing?..Like where you've skipped a word or two without even realising you are doing it, and you can read it back to yourself and think, it doesn't make sense. It's quite annoying sometimes, because you sometimes press post and can't alter it. You like think ahead of your typing, you can see the sentence you want to type in your head and look back and can see a few words missing after it's posted😂Most annoying.

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  • GalDriver
    GalDriver Community Member Posts: 137 Empowering

    Oh yes! The other thing I do, because hands are a bit 'clunky', is somehow manage to switch from typing the next word to inserting it into the middle of a previous word?! **** is that about? Trying to read that back makes no sense either. Yes, very frustrating especially if you haven't noticed and post/send.

  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Community Member Posts: 446 Trailblazing
    edited January 18

    Yes SwiftFox, it's very natural.

    Please let's remember that unless one is a stenographer, speaking is far faster than writing and our thinking is considerably quicker than that.

    Writing really isn't natural to us, I certainly had to learn how to do it!

    The huge range of formats (I'm typing this into a phone) in which we write these days only complicates things!

    It most reminds me of the various benefits of proofreading everything I write. I find that a helpful habit anyhow.

    🤓

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Community Member Posts: 8,951 Championing
    edited January 18

    I'm a quick typer and get annoyed when the phone/tablet keyboard can't keep up with me 😂

    On laptop I've retained the ability to touch type (taught 30 years ago at school in the US), so am even quicker there but that at least keeps up with me.

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Community Member Posts: 1,386 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1095746#Comment_1095746

    Yes, I dunno what happens or what I've clicked, but often it jumps, without me realising & my typing goes to the start, in front of what I've typed & it is annoying.

    Also, I'll be tapping out a Whatsapp message & it sends part way through the message, that's with doing it on the laptop, not phone. 🤪

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