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Words Your Fingers Misspell

I know how to spell, but some days my fingers try to hide that fact. There are a handful (ahaha) of words that I simply can't spell right the first time. My fingers have memorized some other pattern of letters, and I'm constantly correcting the same typos.

Here's the words I'm always messing up on (I'll add if I come across any more):

chamber = chamger

magic = macig

white = whice

window = dinwod (this sounds like an insult to me. You dinwod!)

weird = werid

Storywrite = Stowyrwite ()


Maybe I have tactile dyslexia? I mean, I do know the right order of the letters, but honestly, time and again, my fingers type it a different way, and it feels right to them, until my eyes get a look at what they've spelled, and I realize I've made a mistake.

Anyone else have bad spelling in your fingers' muscle memory?

good idea about the teh. I usually have the space problem as well. jsut is one I'm close to giving up on.

from = form
form = from ... regardles which one I'm trying, I always do the other
the = hte
just = jsut
manager = manaher
them = htem

I have a huge problem with they. I always accidentally type it as the.

t he is my biggest problem

Yeah, hte is a big one (the) and something else...oh its soemting instead of something. I just did it again. And with again I keep going to against.

I get "weird" round the wrong way sometimes as "wierd". But that's probably because I used to think it was spelled that way right up to mid high school (if not later).

Typos like "teh" are - I'm pretty sure - because your fingers are going faster than your thoughts and because you're not consciously thinking about how to spell the word. Rather you're relying on muscle memory, if that's the right term for it.

I make quite a few typos. Can't think of any particular ones at the moment although I do tend to press the spacebar too early sometimes... But I always know when my fingers have got it wrong.

business

It always comes out of my fingers buisiness and I have to go back and correct it same with opinion--my fingers alway drop an extra p

Nealry for nearly. I did that a few times just today. Grr.

hr
th
Benjmain
beiautlfl - I actually did put that earlier!
oh, and form/from

I went to a church meeting that involved different types of Christian churches when I thought of a typo or mental flip I have often had.

denomination = demonination. That isn't right, is it?

I frequently write and, adn, and I find my self writing my character, Liam's, name Lima.

have is normally ahve and the is hte.
My best mistake recently was ownly instead of only..LOL
But I am dyslexic and sometimes I am very convinced the word I have written is correct. Sometimes the harder the word is to spell the easier it is for me.
Auto correct in word is my best friend at the moment.