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I find myself making repetitive mistakes typing keywords and sentences in my code comments. I notice its getting worse since my fingers just keep "practicing" incorrect words.

Is there any solution to this? Like a typing tutor designed to help correct repetitive mistakes?

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ldigas
+1 just for the XKCD ref. I'd up vote more but I don't think I can :(
scragar
While texter is certainly useful, it's not ideal here--that only encourages the mistyping over time, by patching over it. It's better to fix the bug, not create a temporary patch.
Brisbe42
What, no alt text?
Corey
What alt text are you talking about?!
Jenko
@Jeremy Rudd: The joke is that all XKCD comics have an added joke as the alt-text, and this posting of the image doesn't have alt-text--thus misses half of the overall joke.
Brisbe42
@Brisbe42 - actually, I just wanted to post the comic. texter was just an excuse :-)
ldigas
A: 

Maybe a book? Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals I hadn't read that, but in amazon has good reviews

Rodrigo
+6  A: 

The only way to correct this is to retrain your muscle memory. If it's important enough to take the time, the only way to retrain muscle memory is repetition.

For example, I tend to spell the word "the" as "teh" because of the same scenario you're asking about. To retrain the memory I would just spell the word over and over, starting slowly, striving for 100% accuracy, and increasing the speed. It's the same technique I use to get better at Guitar Hero.

David Stratton
You should use that technique to instead get better at just Guitar :)
jayrdub
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Try a different keyboard layout. That way you start from scratch and completely retrain your fingers. Done properly you should be able to type just as fast as you could with qwerty in a few weeks. For example Dvorak.

</shameless promotion of dvorak>

Marius