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Kavik:
Very often I mistype "want to" as "wanto" and "think" as "thingk", I suppose, because my brain is trying to type the sounds and not the words themselves.

Does anyone else have this problem? This happens even when I'm practicing on Keyhero.com where I can see the word I'm trying to type.

I'm not a bad typist, but this is an annoying problem I've noticed that really affects my accuracy.

tp4tissue:
practice typing SLOWER.  and while you're typing , effortfully think about the PRECISE string of text you want to type.


For example, it's its it's its it's its its its its it's it's it's

The goal is to create specific muscle memories for more diverse set of strings.

rowdy:
No.

I don't sound words out as I'm typing.

Findecanor:
The mind thinks ahead and I sometimes start typing a latter word before the former, or before the former is done. I have sometimes typed "wanto", but I think for this reason. I have also found myself having capitalised a word when it was the next that was supposed to be.
Another mistake that I sometimes do is that is that my mind comes up with two phrases and the result becomes a jumble of the two.

I have not found myself mistaking different English words by sound — because it is not my native language.
But I do think that native Swedish speakers do similar mistakes when typing or writing Swedish, although I have not found myself doing them.
I was taught English not by sounds but from written textbooks, which means that I always picture English words in how they are spelled. (In a few instances I have not learned the correct pronunciation of an English word until a decade or two after I first read it)

Findecanor:
I noticed another mistake thing I sometimes do: I type words that are spelled close to the word I had intended to type.
For instance, "internet" instead of "internal", "trip" instead of "trim".

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