What I actually type and how I need to correct it.

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I am often needing to correct the words I type. Sometimes I type letters in a word completely muddled up! I decided to try to give an example. I happen to have a Bible in front of me so I will take a random short paragraph. I will first type it uncorrected and then again corrected. Knowing me, I will probably get every letter and word right first time! Haha. Let's give it a go and see if I can give an example.


2 Timothy 1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Vhrist byithe will od God, accirding to yhe promise od lide whicj is in Vhrist Jesis,
To Timoghu, my dwalry belived son, Grace , mercy, abd peaxe, feo, God the Fagher and Chrits Jeuss oyr Lord.


The corrected version.


2 Timothy 1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promse of life which is in Christ Jesus,
To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


When I see the uncorrected version, just as I typed it first, I just let my fingers do their work without going back to correct what I typed and without concentrating on watching every letter as I typed it.
My Mum was a typist on a typrwriter and she was quick to. Somehow she could get it right and at speed.
I have never been any good at dictation in school and college. I always was falling behind with notes and not able to have all the work as I often had gaps missing. I am thinking that maybe I needed to concentrate on the letters of words more so I could write correctly? Maybe this was why I was slower in writing?
Somehow, I was never able to make my hand write fast enough in the first pkace. My hand would be ready, but my ability to listen and write what I heard in the first place had a longer delay. I would sometimes even be stuck with mind blank and write nothing... Not because I had not heard the exact words, but because I was somehow unable to translate them into letter and handwritten form?
About a third or sometimes more of the ends of sentences or even whole lines of a paragraph would be written from memory of what was said rather then writing down deirectly in real time of what was said, and there was only so many lines of words I could keep to memory in doing this. Usually a small paragraph. It makes me think though. Was it normal to do this? I am not good at doing two things at once, but for this it was the only way. Probably why I found lessons so difficult.
Sometimes a teacher would finish and I would be still writing for a few minutes going by memory while he was trying to show us something, and I would be told off for delaying the class or not looking. I couldn't retain the dictation ad look at something as he or she would then go back to dictation again. I lost so many notes in not being good at dictation that it was amazing how I was able to do anything.
The subjects I generally did well with either had teachers who were slow when they did dictation, or they handed out notes. So sometimes a subject I did really well with with one teacher would fail when I would have a new teacher the next year.

It makes me think if my exam results were effected by this?

Sometimes I have a problem with the new keyboards. Either my touch is too weak or two strong and the letters would come out jumbled. So I purchase a keyboard with an audible click, like an old fashion typewriter.

In the example that you provided "Vhrist byithe will od God, accirding to yhe promise od lide whicj ", notice that the errors are all one horizontal position off on the keyboard.

Vhrist - the letters V and C are next to each other on the keyboard.
od - the letters d and f are next to each other
accirding - the letters i and o are next to each other.
yhe - the letters y and t are next to each other.
lide - the letters d and f are next to each other.
whicj - the letters j and h are next to each other.

So offhand I would say this is not a memory issue but rather a dexterity issue.

I have also noticed that your writing has dramatically improved during the few months you have been on Wrong Planet.

If there is a pair of letters that you are subject to confuse then just make up a nonsense sentence -that contains lots of those two letters- type that sentence over and over as a drill.

I used mix up b and v.

So I made up

"I am a bivalve! Not a bovine!" Said the oyster to the lovelorn bull.

And I would just type it over and over again like everyone uses that "Quick brown fox..." thing until my fingers got more accurate with those two letters.

I type slowly, carefully, painstakingly.

And then go back and make 32 corrections.