I’m curious about other user’s experiences when they make errors.

I’ve never specifically focused on this until today so I have little to go on, but I did know that sometimes I’ll realize an error by seeing it, other times I know I felt it first. Other times I may feel I may have missed it, but have to see what showed up to be sure. And, of course, sometimes I make errors and only see them later.

I also knew that sometimes I would catch the mistake right away, before I typed anything past it. But I never tried to keep track until today to see how often it happened that way.

After my testing, I’m finding that using typing tests, I have actually caught most of my errors by feel first and didn’t type after the initial error. So delete one character and go on.

In cases where I do go past, it is often just one more character, especially in cases where I type characters in reverse order. I think this is because most of those reversals are extremely quick - best I can tell, it is like the letter that should have come first still is struck at the same tempo as the other characters. However, the letter that should come next just get’s squeezed in ahead of time. Sort of like the finger just spasmed. Means there is almost no gap at all so I get both keys, reversed, before I can stop. But usually I still don’t go past that.

Of course, I do have times I go further past. In those cases I don’t seem to feel the error at all and my eyes may not catch it right away. Heck, for that matter, the test may not show the error as fast as I need. I suspect typing within the computer rather than online would help that. But those errors are in the minority anyway.

Also, as I’ve been doing these tests, I’ve focused on being steady. Still pretty fast - over 305-320 characters a minute. Even though that’s fast, compared to my slightly faster efforts I usually aim for (around 350 cpm), I almost feel like I’m in slow motion, making stopping quickly seem pretty easy.