What is happening to me..? Have you ever typed a word but a different word appears?

I have actually done that many times, but usually the words are similar words – either in the way they look or in meaning. ‘Entirely’ and ‘with’ don’t seem to fall into that category. Interesting.

When it’s happened to me, I attribute it to a couple of factors: Hands working faster than brain; tiredness; or tipsy.

@augustlan

Yeah these aren’t even the same letter count. At first I thought my hands were missaligned on the keyboard, but obviously not the case.

I look at the keys when type, and even then, I end up with ‘beofre’ instead of ‘before’, ‘storng’ instead of ‘strong’ and ‘thougth’ instead of ‘thought’ and ‘oculd’ instead of ‘could’.. Usually its just mistrokes or thinking faster than I type.

You might have your brain looked at, as it could be a slight imbalance of brain chemicals, or somethign else. Better safe than sorry.

Yes i types ” Who ” and ” How ” appeared it was on this thread

If your mind was wandering a bit while you were typing, it is probable that you typed a word from the off-topic thought; this happens all of the time.

make sure you’re not listening to the tv or the radio etc in the background… :)

See, I even misspelled somethign, again. as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a with.

I’ve done that typing and writing for many different reasons. But when I was in high school I had some trouble in math by doing it with numbers, which was the worst. No idea why, but I do it somewhat often.

That’s why I re-read and edit everrrrrything.

@EmpressPixie would dyslexia cause this…..the nos problem….

@tadpole: Nah. It’s just weirdness. Dyslexia would make sense if the numbers were similar or had anything to do with each other or something. They generally didn’t.

Could this be Word Salad? I have seen this on a couple of television shows (Boston Legal & House), usually to great comic effect, but it seems to be an actual disorder. On those shows it involves speech, though.

Yes, I do. Sometimes if I don’t focus, my hands will type word salad. Something like “my hands will focus monster like”. Other times it’s pretty menacing stuff.