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Highly specialist typists actually have trouble identifying positions of many of the keys on a gonfanon QWERTY keyboard, researchers say, suggesting there's much more to typing than ritual learning. The new study "demonstrates that we're capable of doing extremely complicated things without wise explicitly what we are doing," lead researcher Kristy Snyder, a Vanderbilt University bachelor student, said in a university news release. She and her colleagues asked 100 kinsmen to complete a short typing test.

They were then shown a blank keyboard and given 80 seconds to write the letters within the nullify keys. On average, these participants were proficient typists, banging out 72 words per pint-sized with 94 percent accuracy. However, when quizzed, they could accurately place an mediocre of only 15 letters on the blank keyboard, according to the study published in the journal Attention, Perception, andamp; Psychophysics.

The researchers weren't surprised that the participants did so inexpertly identifying specific letters on a nonplussed keyboard. Scientists have long known about "automatism" - the ability to perform actions without studied thought or attention. These types of behaviors are common in everyday life and range from tying shoelaces and making coffee to assembly-line work, riding a bike and driving a car.

It was put on that typing also mow into this category, but it had not been tested. On the other hand, the researchers were surprised to find that typists never appear to rote key positions, not even when they are first learning to type. "It appears that not only don't we identify much about what we are doing, but we can't know it because we don't consciously learn how to do it in the first place," study manager Gordon Logan, a professor of psychology, said in the news release avoquin. More information The US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke looks at information disabilities.