What words trip up your fingers?

JetFueledCar · Aug 31, 2015

There are words I perpetually typo. Like kidnapping, which my fingers like changing to kindapping. Thomas becomes Thoams (I did that just by typing the name as fast as I could). I can't be alone in this. So what words trip up your fingers? What are the words that you misspell so consistently you've taught autocorrect to fix them for you?

Maryn · Aug 31, 2015

Mine are search and research. Although I can type other E-A-R words right, I always mess up those, typing serach and reserach. How slowly and deliberately I type isn't even a factor.

Maryn, who yes, indeed did mistype those in this post

BarII · Aug 31, 2015

A short one, but I can't remember which. Years ago I consistently spelled lawyer "laywer" until someone pointed it out.

Sungoddess · Aug 31, 2015

Michael
Toilet

Ravioli · Aug 31, 2015

Prostitution, and other long words with easily mistyped letter sequence.

jjdebenedictis · Aug 31, 2015

Students magically become studnets when I type.

I also swap the "t" and "i" in my last name regularly, but too be fair, it's a really long-ass last name. My brain's probably getting tired by the end.

Maggie Maxwell · Sep 2, 2015

complete and completely. They usually come out as compeltely and compeltl because when I start to type "complete" my fingers automatically want to add on the "ly".

XMissBrightSideX · Sep 7, 2015

Whenever this and is appear in the same sentence, one of them disappears. I suspect cannibalism but I lack concrete proof. :ROFL:

I also used to type defiantly in place of definitely way too often for me to comfortably admit. O's & I's occasionally sub for each other apparently too.
Thank god for proof-reading!

Caitlin Black · Sep 7, 2015

Yep, I was going to say "definitely". Generally speaking, when there's a word of a significant length (say, 7 or more letters), and the letters are quite close to each other on the keyboard, that's when I'm most likely to make a typo. I make typos all the damn time anyway, but those are the main circumstances in which they happen. (The key to not looking like I make a lot of typos is that I watch the screen while I type, and not the keyboard, so I pick up 99% of typos pretty much instantly, and am a bit of a backspace ninja.

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Connecticut Yankee · Sep 7, 2015

The word "from." As bizarre as it sounds it just comes out as "form" about 75% of the time.

Caitlin Black · Sep 7, 2015

Another common problem I have is when I have to think about the way a word is spelled, but can think about it quickly enough that it doesn't interrupt the flow of my typing. So, like "from" and "form", where 2 or more different words are close in spelling, or else words where I have to think about one particular detail such as "wherever" (there's only 1 "e" where the words "where" and "ever" join, not 2).

In those cases, I'll often make a typo.

Snitchcat · Sep 7, 2015

Um, does it count if almost every word I type is a typo that needs backspacing before it comes out coherently?

grose · Sep 10, 2015

I really really want exercise to be spelled excercise. I'm trying to start a movement!

Lauram6123 · Sep 10, 2015

My brain thinks imagining, but my fingers type imaging.

beckethm · Sep 10, 2015

I can't seem to type "ratio" without adding an -n to make it "ration"

I also have a problem with typing homophones of the word I intend to write. This morning it was "hear" instead of "here." I don't know why, but sometimes my brain just sends the wrong signals to my fingers.

Tazlima · Sep 10, 2015

The spacebar is my nemesis. When I get rolling it wants to jump the line and I do a loto fthis kin dof thing.

KTC · Sep 10, 2015

almost every single time I type out mean it comes out mena. I don't know why. My wires crossed once, and it stuck. ARGH!

Maggie Maxwell · Sep 10, 2015

Tazlima said:
The spacebar is my nemesis. When I get rolling it wants to jump the line and I do a loto fthis kin dof thing.

KTC said:
almost every single time I type out mean it comes out mena. I don't know why. My wires crossed once, and it stuck. ARGH!

Both of these. Both of them so much.

KTC · Sep 10, 2015

Really!?!?!?! Is mena a thing? lol

Maggie Maxwell · Sep 10, 2015

KTC said:
Really!?!?!?! Is mena a thing? lol

It's a thing between you and me(na), my friend. :greenie

BarII · Sep 23, 2015

BarII said:
A short one, but I can't remember which.

I just remembered because it happened again. I type but when I mean buy.

randi.lee · Sep 23, 2015

"blogpost"

Every time I try to type out a Blogspot web address, it ends up: blahblahblah.blogpost.com

I'm on the lookout for it, but just can't seem to stop doing it!

CuddlyClementine · Sep 23, 2015

Newspaper. I don't even know why, but it gets me every time.

Tazlima said:
The spacebar is my nemesis. When I get rolling it wants to jump the line and I do a loto fthis kin dof thing.

And this, all kinds of this.

jlmott · Sep 23, 2015

Connecticut Yankee said:
The word "from." As bizarre as it sounds it just comes out as "form" about 75% of the time.

Not at all bizarre, as this one trips me up constantly (probably even higher than 75%). All the more insidious as the spell checker ignores it, forcing me to search for the word "form" in my writing to see if I really meant to use it :Hammer:

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AnOldBlackMarble · Sep 23, 2015

Connecticut Yankee said:
The word "from." As bizarre as it sounds it just comes out as "form" about 75% of the time.

Same here, in addition with a ton of others.

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