Wayward fingers
My touch typing has never been brilliant and fortunately my livelihood didn’t depend on it but recently it has deteriorated, or, at least, I think it has. Maybe it’s because I am typing more frequently and for longer periods, but then surely, it would improve, no? I wonder if it’s an indication of the way my brain is going. I hope not!
The above has been corrected. Let me show you how it often looks before either auto-correction or manual correction.
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Thie is a standsard typing exercise.
Solmetimes it can be explained by letters being close toegehtr
but that’s not always the case.
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I know I rush at thingf and make sillyu mistakes in everything I do – this has been my life but am I getting worse?
Now, does my speech reflect this mumbo jumbo? Am I mirroring Joe Biden, that poor, lost soul, whose decline is so painfully public?
I have passed the point of laughing at his gaffes and mispronunciations and am concerned by his stumbles, both physical and verbal and his worrying behaviour with children. How long can he continue? How long can he be allowed to continue? There must be many more proficient and capable candidates for the highest rank in the land in the USA.
However, I did not start this post in order to discuss politics – that’s a can of worms best left unopened in public by uninformed people like me. After all, our own politicians, in UK, leave much to be desired.
On Wednesday I was listening to a pianist playing Chopin and reading the manuscript. It was a tricky piece and I would only be able to play it, if at all, at about a quarter of the required tempo. Afterwards, my keyboard seemed strangely alien and I could not type as my fingers seemed to want to travel in parallel lines rather than in different planes according to the letters required. If that makes it sound as though my keyboard has several manuals like a pipe organ, I apologise, but I hope you understand what I mean. The odd feeling passed and I was soon back to typing appallingly badly, as usual.
My husband recently gave me an illuminated keyboard which is a joy to use. It’s small, neat and very responsive to touch – but it hasn’t improved my typing!
