Understand my hands

As Harvin pointed out previously, I am a bad speller. Even though I am thorough and eloquent in my narrative expression, I believe the cause for my terrible spelling is due to the fact that I never double check (which I am working on by the way) and because I am a fast typer (typist?)

Because I run my own company, I send a lot of emails to clients in a professional and articulate manner. So as a habit to rid myself of any grammatical errors, I usually pop open Microsoft word and type my thoughts and responses to catch any flaws in my writing.

Today morning, I was writing a really long response to a client and had everything I needed to say ready in my mind. It was early in the morning and I was basically just regurgitating everything when I suddenly looked down at my hands which were going crazy! Have you ever observed your own hands typing? Its phenomenal! How do my hands and mind know where to go? Even as I type this I am looking down at my hands which seem to be programmed to know where every letter is. I don’t even have to think about it, they’re just doing it! And they do it with such precision and speed that it’s no wonder I am a bad speller.

My Dad is also a fast typer (typist?). He, however, coming from India, doesn’t have any formal typing training like I do. The way he types is hard to explain through this blog, but is simply amazing nevertheless. He basically uses his left hand for simple maneuvers like shifting and hitting letters surrounding the letter S. But with his right index and middle finger he does the rest, like going from an R to an M in split seconds. Mind boggling!

But now that I think of it, he is also a bad speller as well. So maybe my luck with spelling is most probably genetic rather than my lighting speed typing skills. I also really hope there are no spelling errors in this blog. That would be really embarrassing .

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