| User | Comment |
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romkey    | | posted 27-Jan-1999 1:51am |
my new keyboard doesn't seem to have n-key rollover so I'm making a lot more typos now.
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| hunter | | posted 27-Jan-1999 2:13am |
I do all of these, but I also proofread fairly well in real-time, so mistakes only rarely stay in as far as the end of the sentence and even more rarely make it into something I perceive as a finished document, although I have to be careful not to let spellcheckers make me lazy. I'm a little bit more casual about email and SC comments :) |
| Wicksy | | posted 27-Jan-1999 4:50am |
great this |
| Mimi | | posted 27-Jan-1999 8:36am |
I am always so rushed that I make more mistakes than I should even though I am a good typist. I rush thru my email & then if I go back & reread it I am appalled at the typos I've made when I think it was perfect. I'm not a perfectionist, but those things really nag at me. |
bill  | | posted 27-Jan-1999 9:30am |
cute survey - I bet the spell checker went bananas with it though. |
| jjg | | posted 27-Jan-1999 9:42am |
I have a utility that will change words I commonly misspell (teh instead of the) to the correct word with out my help. I know most current word processing programs do this, but the utility makes the corrections in all text applications. (Maybe someday I will actually load it, and use it.) |
| Mattias | | posted 27-Jan-1999 10:13am |
I had to give this survey good rating, just because of the last option.
I'm one of those persons how just praise "Check comment" . |
| bill | | posted 27-Jan-1999 10:17am |
I do gerp instead of grep a lot, oh and emcas instead of emacs. |
| Gamera | | posted 27-Jan-1999 10:43am |
Yes, in fact, the spell checking was a little difficult, b/c I really wanted to limit the typo-s to the intentional ones. It was hard to parse through the preview.I'm so glad it wasn't all blinking! I've aliased most of my common commands to two letter codes to limit my annoyance at my typo-s. So 'em' is emacs, 'pi' is pine, 'lo' is logout, etc. romkey: what's an n-key rollover? |
| dpolicar | | posted 27-Jan-1999 10:49am |
I'll mention that breakin gwords wrong is really just a special case of reversing lettres. |
| jonathan | | posted 27-Jan-1999 12:09pm |
Cool survey! |
| reality | | posted 27-Jan-1999 12:26pm |
reversing letters and breaking wrong.. I will occasionally do the Caps thing or the two keys or having my fingers wrong etc.. I'll also throw in random extra letters too, but the most common are the letters and breaking. I am also so used to doing this that I proof read and then go back and fix the stuff (usually) |
| lizzie | | posted 27-Jan-1999 3:55pm |
I am a very quick typist, but I make a lot of errors. I switch letters a lot, miss spaces and break words in the wrong place. I also misplace my right hand a lot, because it likes to fly around the keyboard, while the left hand stays put. |
| steve | | posted 27-Jan-1999 3:57pm |
I like the last option, although I didn't check it. |
| dab | | posted 27-Jan-1999 5:15pm |
My most common typo is "teh". |
| eris | | posted 27-Jan-1999 5:16pm |
Most of these my brain error-checks before they are complete, which is to say that my finger is on the way to the delete key before I consciously see the error. So, while I make many of them fairly frequently (I just made three different ones in two words!), the final product is usually close to typo-free. |
| Mimi | | posted 27-Jan-1999 6:46pm |
In my work I type the words 'United States' a lot & it nearly always comes out as 'Untied States.' |
| hunter | | posted 27-Jan-1999 7:27pm |
Mimi, apparently the commemorative pens the senators used to sign their oaths for the impeachment trial had exactly the same typo. Gillette (I think) offered to replace them, but got no takers, only orders for additional misprinted pens :) |
| jonathan | | posted 28-Jan-1999 4:07pm |
Yeah, I've considered the touch typing class I took to be the most valuable course ever since I started using email freshman year of college. |
| bill | | posted 28-Jan-1999 7:13pm |
I sometimes wish I could touch type now. Is it too late? I can type fast, but it's this weird thing I just invented because I type so much that I just got faster at it. I don't rest my hands on the keyboard, instead they hover and strike (which I know is bad because I miss), but I do use 4-6 fingers. I'm sure I could do better if I did touch typing. |
| eris | | posted 28-Jan-1999 7:43pm |
It is probably not too late now. I remember I used to type that way before I took a touch-typing class. There are lots of computer programs available for this. If I were doing it now, I would learn the Dvorak keyboard - it sounds much nicer, and with computers the only thing anyone types on anymore (well, almost), there is no reason not to. |
| hunter | | posted 28-Jan-1999 8:03pm |
And Dvorak is said to be a) faster and b) much easier on one's wrists. I keep trying to overcome inertia and learn that system. |
| Laela | | posted 31-Jan-1999 5:04pm |
I tipe horibly.
No, seriously, I think so fast that my fingers can't keep up and when they try, chaos follows. (Especially when my hands miss the home row...) |
| romkey | | posted 31-Jan-1999 6:45pm |
topper - n-key rollover is when you can press n-keys at one time and still get the correct keypresses. a lot of keyboards have 2-key rollover, so if you are press more than 2 keys at once then the keyboard may send the wrong codes. if you type fast, it's pretty easy to do that. unfortunately my new keyboard seems particularly susceptible to that problem.
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| Frostbrand | | posted 1-Feb-1999 12:45am |
Laela: I know how that feels. |
| hillel |
i NEVER make mistakes. i'm practically perfect in every way
Homer: so am i! |
| bill |
romkey - I would worry about a keyboard that does n-key rollover. I suspect many games wouldn't work right (where you press more than one key at a time on purpose [e.g. left and down to go diagonal]). Of course, if it was an optional mode that a game could turn off or disregard... |
| romkey |
bill - there are ways to deal with that - on a PC keyboard the keyboard itself actually just transmits a "scan code" for each key when the key is released or pressed. the keyboard driver in the BIOS or OS then translates that into ASCII. if you don't have n-key rollover then you'll probably get the wrong scan codes if you have too many keys pressed at once. games generally end up dealing in scan codes and not the ASCII codes, so they'll work correctly
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| drdt | | posted 11-Feb-1999 5:23pm |
I am really, really fast on the delete key so you can't prove anything. |
| Decapitron | | posted 14-Feb-1999 2:34am |
I type "w", "e", "s" and "n" EXTREMELY fast! |
| RedwulfSurfer | | posted 18-Feb-1999 12:55pm |
I speak fluent typo-ese |
| North79 | | posted 19-Feb-1999 1:00pm |
Since I began using the internet I have found I make perhaps an error every two or three lines, usually reversing letters or incorrect breaks. No big deal. |
| buttons | | posted 19-Feb-1999 10:54pm |
hOW ABOUT LEAVING THE cAPS lOCK kEY ON ACCIDENTALLY? :) |
| Gamera | | posted 23-Feb-1999 10:08am |
buttons- ooh good one! I also get some of the most complicated errors in emacs when I think I'm holding down Shift, but am actually holding down Ctrl. Since I look at the keyboard when I type (instead of the screen), I can get pretty far into my messed up modifications before I notice, too. |
| mandy | | posted 6-Apr-1999 11:09pm |
i Nrevr Maake MystaKes... |
| baal | | posted 25-Apr-1999 8:42am |
hehe this is quite funny. I often do the misplacing hands, especially when the marked keys are in varying locations on different keyboards (such as between a mac and a pc). Since I don't often look at the monitor when I'm typing (but at the page I'm typing up), I've written whole sentences in total jibberish before I've realised. |
| mandy | | posted 25-Apr-1999 10:49pm |
I have a problem with the shift key and find I must go back at times and re-capitalize letters...I transpose quite a
bit too...as I type quite quickly and my thoughts out race my fingers.... |
| karmakat | | posted 12-May-1999 7:10am |
There is no such thing as a "mistake". Just axe Siggie Freud. |
| elijahblue | | posted 26-May-1999 5:10am |
baal: I made them kill all your prophets, nyeah  |
| Jasmine | | posted 11-Aug-1999 4:13pm |
i have to go in and add spaces between words almost every time.
THisis nop todifferentfrom the the thigsiusual ly type. |
| Jasmine | | posted 11-Aug-1999 4:24pm |
I used to type dvorak, and it is so much faster and easier. I kept a spare keyboard around in which i rearranged all the letter to match. Dvorak was the only keyboard i learned by touch. I stopped using it because i was teaching resume writing and programming and did not wish to switch back and forth. Now the only reason i dont use it is because i don't have my original 'windows' discs. I wonder if a modern replacement for dvorak exists based on a more contemporary and thorough study of letter frequency and ergonomics. |
| dsysko | | posted 27-Aug-1999 1:34pm |
I type quickly, and make a few errors, but am careful to go back to check to correct them. For some odd reason, I am having considerable trouble typing this simple paragraph correctly! |
| Jasmine | | posted 28-Aug-1999 2:20am |
Because you redefined youself to be a person with some of those difficulties. |
SueBee  |
Capitalizing more than the first letter is my most common typo, but I do several of those listed. The delete key is my friend! |
| Mozluvr | | posted 17-Dec-1999 2:04pm |
Very nicely thought out survey.... Kudos to you, oh great CrEaToR! |
| sbush | | posted 29-Dec-1999 8:36pm |
Ha, this survey rules! |
