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Dear Max: How can I complain about your allowing me the privilege of a small feeble jest occasionally?
De nada, Dr. Bill, I've just had it in for the sciences ever since my High School principal invited me to skip a grade in physics. When I declined, he refused to act on my German teacher's recommendation that I be allowed to skip a grade in that subject. Why do I have images of marching hammers and mincers filling my imnd as I type this?
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I thank you for allowing me that. Bill
Oh, you are SO sweet, Sugar!
Max, I think your "typo" problem may be that your mind is so quick, your fingers can't keep up.
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I suspect C2H5OH was meant.
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Why do I have images of marching hammers and mincers filling my imnd as I type this?Oh I dunno. All in all, it's just another brick in the wall, Max baby! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I am inverting letters when typing
Oh you are not alone Max! My affliction is getting worse by the day, although I still seem to have some check mecahnism that warns me when I have done it, (not just from reading the text as I usually look at the keyboard), and the flow stops dead while I correct the errors. I find particular combinations bad (teh) and often transpose the blank between words to before the last letter of the previous word. I had decided to leave all those I made in but it appears I have only made one so far, a much better average than so far today!
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Max, I think your "typo" problem may be that your mind is so quick, your fingers can't keep up.This is a good theory; I use the same excuse pertaining to the connection between my brain and my mouth. 
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This was happening to me too, till two months ago, when I found typing lessons in
http://www.angelfire.com/in/rampant81/typing.html
and I started learning typing using all the fingers.
Now I am slow , but almost no more inversions.
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Good for you, Emanuela!
I just haven't the patience, probably because I learned my typing in news biz and I've gotten so fast with it that slowing down to re-learn is just tooooo frustrating!
I just proof carefully!
Would be nice, though, to copy a letter or other document without looking at keys!
I find it easier to have someone read to me, then I can type pretty fast.
When electric went out a week or so ago, I had to drag out the old manual and found that pounding the keys I made no typing errors. Could fumbles have something to do with the light touch the computer keyboard accepts?
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Being a player of the piano (as well as the alphanumeric-keyboard) this "digit" inversion does happen on occasion, but most often as the "notes" pass from one hand to the next, and usually when I am arrogant enough to think I have begun to memorize the computer keybord feel and type fast without looking.
I'm sure this has come up before (here on AWAD) but I can't find it... why is the computer keyboard (typewriter keyboard) laid out in the manner it is.. and has anyone ever suggested an improvement to this century+ old technology?
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