Typign errors
This post written by Sean Conta, Founder & CXO
I can type pretty fast, but there are certain words that I mis-type almost every time. I have a feeling I’m not alone here. These are my top three:
- liek (like) - I literally mis-typed it just as I wrote that.
- thinkign ( … or really any word ending in “-ing”) - always comes out -ign.
- inviation/invitaion/invtitaion (invitation). You can imagine the inconvenience of this for customer support at MyPunchbowl … it’s a word I use a lot.
Thankfully, Firefox 3 has a built in spell-checker so I can usually just right click the word with squiggly red underlines to correct it. But I notice that often times the word I want isn’t in that list. It seems that the spell checker tries to guess what word you mean based on the letters in the mis-typed word. but often times I mis-type by hitting a key next to the letter I wanted. Here’s an example: I’ll often type “onw” when I meant “one” (the “w” key is next to the “e” key). When I right click on that my options are “now, own, ow, on, won”.
You’d think that the layout of the keyboard would be a big factor in Firefox’s built-in spellchecker, but it’s clearly not.
All of this is summed up nicely by an email signature I saw recently: “I can spell, I just can’t type.”
If you’re waiting for a profound conclusion or deep meaning I’m afraid you’re about to be disappointed. If there is one, I guess it has something to do with software/hardware, internet/real-life, computer/human disconnect.
Until next tiem …
