Does your hands work faster than your brain?

@o2bnocn (2992)
United States
August 5, 2008 9:34am CST
I recently typed a sentence here. The sentence was: Hopefully they are all. I mean to type: Hopefully they all are. I heard somewhere that your hands work faster than your brain does. Do you think that is why I typed the sentence wrong and flip flopped the two words? Or do you think it was just a typo? Do you think your hands work faster than your brain or your brain works faster than your hands? Why do you think that?
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@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I think my brain works faster than my hands. When I am typing I spell out the words in my head. Sometimes I will type the letter after the letter I intend to type. So, I would think that is brain faster than hand.
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@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I have no idea, I just know that most of the type I don't usually type too many typo's. Or at least I don't think I do.
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• Philippines
6 Aug 08
maybe your brain is not in focus when you type them thats why you mistype the words you want to type... the brain sends the impulses that makes your hands move, our brain is faster than our hands because it is the one who tells what your hands will do! just stay in focus ... you will not mistype them anymore!
@Valenas (1507)
• United States
5 Aug 08
My brain goes much faster than my hands go, and so I am always struggling to catch up. I will try to show you an example of what I do when I am typing. "Would you like to dance with me?" is a simple sentence, and yet, I can make so many errors while typing it. Sometimes, I might leave out a word. You like to dance with me? Sometimes, I might start Would with a Y since both have an "ou" after them. "Yould." I make so many errors, because I cannot keep up.
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I thought my brain went faster than my hands as well. Someone just told me that one day and I was thinking if it was true and that is why I made that mistake. Maybe not though, I don't know. I am usually pretty good at typing.
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@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I will be nice and not count the backspace. When I was in school and had to do typing test they counted the backspace, well on some of them they wouldn't even allow you to use the backspace to correct yourself. They wanted to grade you on your accuracy and then on your speed.
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@Valenas (1507)
• United States
5 Aug 08
If the backspaces are not counted as part of my score, then I am very good at typing. If I could go without making all of the errors that I do and having to go back and correct myself, I have to wonder how much faster I could go.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
5 Aug 08
Hi o2, I believed it's my brain which works faster and my hands are in coordination of what I am thinking..and if ever I got some errors it is just because of typo!
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
6 Aug 08
Yeah that is what I always thought, I was just wondering what other peoples opinions were about it.
@SHAMRACK (8576)
• India
6 Aug 08
Dear friend, I hope my brain move faster than my hands. May be I do sometimes committee lots of mistakes when I do get very much concentration and these mistakes are corrected from a second thought. Some times some mistakes even do not get noticed and which would already posted too. Hence I feel my brain is faster than hands. My hand have get order from my brain before it has do anything.
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
6 Aug 08
Yeah that is how I ended up posting that. I never even caught onto it. I guess I wasn't paying too much attention to it.
@ruby222 (4847)
6 Aug 08
Many many times!I often type and try to go far too fast ,then I end up with a complete mess,and have to start all over again,but the leeson to be learnt here is that I need to type more slowly in order to cut back on the typos!but my worst mistakes are made with the caps key,somehow my little finger hits it,and the next thing i look and the whole post has been typed out in capital letters!
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
6 Aug 08
I have never done that before, it's probably because I look at the computer while I am typing. I was taught to do that in school, matter of fact they wouldn't let us look down at our hands. Hopefully I don't make too many more mistakes like that.
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
For me, my brain works faster than my hand. I have lots of things in mind but my hand can not cope with what I have in mind. My hand missed the things I want to be written. I think ahead than my hand can do.[em]happy
• United States
6 Aug 08
For me, I think it is pretty equal. I type while I think and I always type what I am thinking. So if my brain says, "Never mind, don't say that" than I just hit backspace and continue on.
@bluishrose (2289)
• Philippines
5 Aug 08
Yeah sometimes it happens to me too. Sometimes the hands keeps working and when you re-read the sentence it is what's on your mind.
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
5 Aug 08
Yeah I think I wasn't really focusing on what I was typing and just typing.
• India
6 Aug 08
Hi friend, Sometimes it may happens to me too.When i am starting a discussion in mylot site,it happened me.Sometime without my brain permission i simply type.I think it is obvious to a person like me,because i am a short hand typer.I simply use my hand without noticing what i am typing.I think i have to stop typing and give a chance to my brain to think and after framing all the statement.it is better to start typing.I have to get use of that typing friend. Have a nice day.
@gemini_rose (16264)
5 Aug 08
I am not sure, because sometimes I have my words in my head but my fingers just totally type whatever they feel like, so they must be bored of waiting for my brain and just try and guess whats coming next!
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I never thought about it like that. Your response made me laugh. Your hands getting bored, that's funny.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Aug 08
hi o2gnocn I do the same thing every once in awhile, yes I think at times our hands move too fast for our 'thoughts, and at other times I am thinking so fast' my hands cannot keep up and I make errors right and left. A lot of times I cannot type fast enough to get my 'thoughts done as they are tumbling around and I want 'so much to type perfectly and make no errors.Sometimes I have done this when I was in a real hurry ,typed the as eth, and thats really so annoying.
• United States
5 Aug 08
I think my hands are alot faster thanmy brain beause I already know how I want to word things alot of the time and it's a matter of the fingers getting the message out here in the discussions. I believe our brains become alot stronger as time goes on as we do what we do.
@o2bnocn (2992)
• United States
5 Aug 08
I have no idea. Sometimes it seems like my hands work faster and other times it feels like my brain works faster. I think it could have something to do as well as how fast you type. For instance if you type really fast maybe your brain isn't going as fast as your hands are trained to. I don't know.
• United States
6 Aug 08
My brain works much faster than my fingers. I am always a couple of sentences ahead in my mind. I have to be careful that I am actually typing what I was thinking 3 minutes ago, and not what I am thinking as my fingers fly across the keyboard. What a jumbled message that would be!*LOL*
@chenmeiyi (972)
• China
6 Aug 08
i comprehend it from another angle. brain means reason,and hands mean emotion. usually my brain rules my emotion,i have learned how to calm down and not so emotional to deal with problems and it can avoid potential fights. am i right from this perspective?
@Naylani (111)
• United States
10 Mar 09
My hands definitely work faster than my brain. I think that they also have a mind of there own. They seem to do things that I don't even recall them doing, like locking the front door, or put the toilet seat down each time I use the toilet. Sometimes I have to go back and wonder if I've done these thing and sure enough, their done without me even recalling. Weird huh?
@nokia6233 (937)
• India
5 Aug 08
i sont think hands can work faster than brain cos it the brain that controls and gives orders to the hands...so only after the brain gives control and action details to hands it can work accordingly... in your case i think the brain anticipating some things to happen,gives those orders rather the one we intend to do..
@magojordan (3252)
• Philippines
6 Aug 08
Definitely my hands work faster than my brain or sometimes other peoples brains because I'm a magician. As a a magician most of the time you have to rely on instinct that resulted from practicing the trick over and over again. We have to do this because we need to look and act natural in front of the audience and to do so we must not focus too much on the trick, rather we focus on how we will present it.
@harishv (149)
• India
5 Aug 08
For me my brain works faster than the hands. Whenever i post a response first i have to think in my mind what i have to post, after thinking only i can post the response. Anyway not only for hands but for every parts of the body, brain has to suggest what work has to be done.