Explain What's Happening In My Brain

[Skeptic Ginger]

I do it all the time. I've read that it is because of timing, one hand vs the other. Note the T and E are left hand, H is right hand.

That makes perfect sense.

And "nad" instead of "and" also. Now I wonder if left handed people ever make "teh", or if they do some other timing mis-move? Does handedness have something to do with the conscious mind ?

I don't believe I ever type nad instead of and, but one uses different fingers for the 'a' than one uses for 't'. That could slow the left hand down a fraction, changing the dynamic.

 

[abaddon]

A question about the workings of the human brain:

I play a game on my phone where you're given seven letters and have to place all the words that can be made from them in a crossword grid.

As an example, I might get the letters P D N U S O T. I'll find "stop" and "nut" and "oust" and such. Invariably, I will end up with one word left that I have not thought of.

The missing word at this point may look like this: _ O _ _ D.

And after a few moments, I will correctly fill in "Pound."

Here's the interesting part. Consciously, I will have the thought, "In for a penny, in for a _____" just a moment before I consciously think "Pound."

Now, I know that I had to have first decoded the word and only then found a usage. However, to my conscious mind, the usage appears to precede the word.

This happens consistently when I am stuck, however briefly, on a word.

Any scientific explanation of the apparent paradox is greatly appreciated. How does a derivative thought get to my consciousness more quickly than the original thought?

It's simple. As one ages, one loses speed. I am a lap behind you, but I notice this in myself. All I can say for sure, is that even the attempt to keep up is sufficient. Perhaps it may be true that loss of acuity simply happens over time. . I don't think it must be so. Two of my fondest friends are way up in the seventies, heading for eighties. Still compus mentis and well able to argue their case.

There is no rule.

The only reason that you are considering such a thing is that you have been told that you are not sufficiently capable due to age. I can tell you that you are flat out wrong unless you can come up with something else .
Just my 2 cents.

 

[casebro]

That makes perfect sense.

I don't believe I ever type nad instead of and, but one uses different fingers for the 'a' than one uses for 't'. That could slow the left hand down a fraction, changing the dynamic.

I've found that if I use one finger on each hand, I can type twice as fast as I used to.

I took a semester of typing, 28wpm with 42 mistakes. My hands never were good, I never could do the Cub Scout Salute. Flunked typing, handwriting, and musical instruments. And seven surgeries since- one carpal tunnel, two to fix a severed median nerve in the other wrist, five trigger fingers, and a couple three power tool encounters. So Now I have to look at where my fingers are pointing, rather than the screen. And if I drag a loose thumb some blasted shortcut comes in adn I've typoed half a page in some other program.

Anybody know how to kill all shortcuts in Windows?

 

[bruto]

I've found that if I use one finger on each hand, I can type twice as fast as I used to.

I took a semester of typing, 28wpm with 42 mistakes. My hands never were good, I never could do the Cub Scout Salute. Flunked typing, handwriting, and musical instruments. And seven surgeries since- one carpal tunnel, two to fix a severed median nerve in the other wrist, five trigger fingers, and a couple three power tool encounters. So Now I have to look at where my fingers are pointing, rather than the screen. And if I drag a loose thumb some blasted shortcut comes in adn I've typoed half a page in some other program.

Anybody know how to kill all shortcuts in Windows?

I think you can disable the hot key shortcuts in the graphics menu. Right click on the screen, get "graphics options" and within the menu that comes up, disable the hot keys.

I have a bit the opposite problem with typing. I learned to type long long long ago, on a manual typewriter, and became very fast and fairly accurate, but I suspect that part of that speed was a subconscious familiarity with how long it too typebars to actuate, including sometimes hitting sequences wrong because they would come out right, and on a computer keyboard I often get letters reversed which I never did on a typewriter. That of course is a wildly conjectural justification and probably wrong. I'm probably just getting clumsy but I still tend to type "just" as jsut, for example.

 

[casebro]

I think you can disable the hot key shortcuts in the graphics menu. Right click on the screen, get "graphics options" and within the menu that comes up, disable the hot keys.

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No such choice, dammitt. I found this:

This isn't a Vista option, it's a feature of the graphics driver.
If this option is missing then it means 7 is using a generic driver, not a "specific" driver for your graphics.

And vista being as old as it is, I don't think drivers are around.

 

[bruto]

I think you can disable the hot key shortcuts in the graphics menu. Right click on the screen, get "graphics options" and within the menu that comes up, disable the hot keys.

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No such choice, dammitt. I found this:



And vista being as old as it is, I don't think drivers are around.

Oh, blankey blanking Vista. My Vista laptop has the Intel graphics driver, and that has the options. But it seems you can do this in the registry.

I found this:

https://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/77881-windows-hotkeys.html

 

[casebro]

Oh, blankey blanking Vista. My Vista laptop has the Intel graphics driver, and that has the options. But it seems you can do this in the registry.

I found this:

https://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/77881-windows-hotkeys.html

No help there, that is only for combinations with the Windows Key. My keyboard doesn't even have one of those.

I'm using a Morekeyboard. It has bigger keys, so farther apart. But I still do a lot of typos.(4 in those two sentences)

There is an interesting system of using that "chord" function though. Called GKOS. Keep your fingers on home row, push from 1 to 3 keys at once, make anything on the keyboard. http://gkos.com/gkos/index-gkos-com.html now even for touch screens.

Or you can pry the back off the keyboard, run some ribbon wires in there, make two PVC pipe handpieces with 3 micro switches on each, and chord away! BUT you have to release all the switches at the same time. About the time I could punch out "the quick brown fox..." the backs of my sore arms were dying, a muscle disease is the root cause of my problems.

The way some keyboards do chords makes me think shortcuts are built into the keyboards. To prep for the GKOS system, I had to try my whole stack of swap meet kbds to find the ones that do chords. Not all do. Simple test of hitting six keys at once, and see what happens on screen.

See, some kbds (all?) don't just have 104 switches that send a number between 1 and 104 to the PC. They have clusters of switches in parallel, and use the total resistance of that circuit to figure out which switch you've pressed. More computing power in a keyboard than used to send a man to the moon?

Maybe I should look up that GKOS chord kbd test, see if a non-chord kbd would serve me better? skldfj is the results of testing this kdb, so it WILL chord, with the GKOS program . http://gkos.com/gkosnet/gd-qwerty.html Now, is this kbd good or bad?