As a writer and editor who spends hours at the keyboard every day, you probably don’t think about how to type.
That ability is built into your “muscle memory”—or more accurately, your subconscious memory. Once you learned to type, there was no need to learn again.
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Your brain creates “subroutines” that allow you to type (or ride a bike, ice skate, play an instrument) without consciously thinking about it. However, this can lead to mistakes, especially when typing commonly used words. As you type, you might be thinking “thank you” but you type “thanks you” instead.
One way you can lessen your chances on making typos is to know your blind spots. What words do you most frequently mangle because your fingers are flying across the keyboard?
Below is a list of common “muscle memory” typos for American-English speakers using a standard QWERTY keyboard. How many of these trip you up?
1. Additional > Addtional
2. And > Adn
3. And > Are
4. Application > Applicaition
5. Because > Becuase
6. But > By
7. Dramatic > Dramaitc
8. Chances > Changes
9. Company > Comany
10. Could > Coudl
11. Doing > Doign
12. Efficiency > Efficient
13. For > Fro
14. From > Form
15. Going > Goign
16. Of > On
17. Off > Of
18. Identify > idenfity
19. Information > Infomation
20. It > If
21. It’s > Its
22. Judgment > Judgement
23. Just > Jtus
24. Looking > Lookign
25. Loose > Lose
26. Management > Managment
27. More > Mroe
28. No > Not
29. Normal > Norman
30. Nothing > Nothign
31. Payments > Paymetns
32. Position > Postition
33. Recognize > Reconize
34. Recommend > Recomend
35. Response > Respomse
36. Review > Reveiw
37. Should > Shoudl
38. Something > Somethign
39. Your > You’re
40. Than > That
41. Than > Tahn
42. Thank you > Thanks you
43. The > Teh
44. There > Their > They’re
45. Thought > Though
46. Through > Thorough
47. To > Too > Two
48. Together > Togehter
49. What > Waht
50. With > Wiht
51. With > Wtih
52. Word > Work
Do you have any to add to the list, PR Daily readers?
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