• ramenshaman@lemmy.world
    571·
    10 months ago

    I remember in first or second grade when I realized that, when I made a mistake, I didn’t have to erase the whole word and I could just erase the part I messed up.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      10 months ago

      I can’t do that. If I mess a word up the whole thing is dead.

      Same for passwords. If I feel I missed a key, in deleting the whole thing and starting it over

      • FilterItOut@thelemmy.club
        171·
        10 months ago

        Oooh, the password thing totally gets me. Usually I have to start over because I don’t know where I messed up. I type them in too damn fast and by the time the little brain part that’s monitoring things says, “Hey, that one key was wrong,” I’m ten characters beyond and wasn’t counting anyway, so I have to start over.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lol
          1·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I might be a weirdo. I count the dots to where I was still comfortable assuming the password was correct until, delete to there, and finish the password again and pretty much always works.

      • TodaviaTyler@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, my hands on a keyboard can’t spell words, they just muscle-memory them. One spelling error and I have to erase amd rewrite the entire word.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      121·
      10 months ago

      I used to have these small faux pas lead to tension and eventually the loss of relationships.

      One day I was complaining to my zen teacher about one of these instances and he suggested I apologize for it.

      He said “That’s called ‘make mistake, correct mistake’” (I think he made up the saying on the spot for me).

      Now some twelve years later I’m still reminding myself that I can just correct my mistakes.