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Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever typed "sl" instead of ls. (In fact I had a great deal of difficulty correctly typing sl there.) Hypothesis: the typo "sl"

by hugh3 16y ago

Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever typed "sl" instead of ls. (In fact I had a great deal of difficulty correctly typing sl there.) Hypothesis: the typo "sl" is only common among left-handers.

okahnus 16y ago
I'm left-handed, and have never made that typo.
- graphene 16y ago
  ditto; a mistake I make far more often is hitting <enter> before s.
  - smcl 16y ago
    For some reason most of the guys I want to uni with (Heriot-Watt) had "alias l=ls" in their .config. I've not seen this with guys I know who were at other unis or with anyone I currently work with. I know it clearly wasn't pioneered at HW (very little outside the area of brewing and distilling is), but I wonder why it had such a high penetration there. Perhaps we were all equally lazy, or a teaching assistant suggested it 1st year and it stuck?
    - hugh3 16y ago
      I have l aliased to ls -l.
paulgb 16y ago
I'm right-handed, and I make the typo all the time, to the point that I've aliased it. I think it's that I type it so quickly (both keys are in the "home row") that each key goes down at about the same time.
- hugh3 16y ago
  OK, I shall consider my hypothesis sufficiently falsified.
ryan-allen 16y ago
I'm a leftie and I never type it wrong!
jonny_noog 16y ago
Hypothesis: the typo "sl" is only common among left-handers. I shall have to add my vioce to the small left-handed chorus here and say that I too have never had an issue with the "sl" typo. In fact I cannot remember a single occasion where I have made this mistake. I've intentionally left a typo that I did just make in the above paragraph to illustrate my own tangentially related observation: The typos that tend to occur within my own typing often seem to be the kind produced by one hand not two. By which I mean the typo "vioce" rather than "voice" happened because the fingers of my right hand hit the keyboard in the wrong sequence. Where as typos involving a finger from one hand then a finger from the other (as would need to be the case with "sl" rather than "ls") tend to be less common... for me anyway.
calcnerd256 16y ago
As a dvorak user, I used to type "no" instead of ls (when I was learning dvorak), and I sometimes type "p;" on QWERTY keyboards.
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by hugh3 16y ago

Oddly enough, I don't think I've ever typed "sl" instead of ls. (In fact I had a great deal of difficulty correctly typing sl there.) Hypothesis: the typo "sl" is only common among left-handers.

okahnus 16y ago

I'm left-handed, and have never made that typo.

graphene 16y ago
ditto; a mistake I make far more often is hitting <enter> before s.
- smcl 16y ago
  For some reason most of the guys I want to uni with (Heriot-Watt) had "alias l=ls" in their .config. I've not seen this with guys I know who were at other unis or with anyone I currently work with. I know it clearly wasn't pioneered at HW (very little outside the area of brewing and distilling is), but I wonder why it had such a high penetration there. Perhaps we were all equally lazy, or a teaching assistant suggested it 1st year and it stuck?
  - hugh3 16y ago
    I have l aliased to ls -l.

paulgb 16y ago

I'm right-handed, and I make the typo all the time, to the point that I've aliased it. I think it's that I type it so quickly (both keys are in the "home row") that each key goes down at about the same time.

hugh3 16y ago
OK, I shall consider my hypothesis sufficiently falsified.

ryan-allen 16y ago

I'm a leftie and I never type it wrong!

jonny_noog 16y ago

Hypothesis: the typo "sl" is only common among left-handers. I shall have to add my vioce to the small left-handed chorus here and say that I too have never had an issue with the "sl" typo. In fact I cannot remember a single occasion where I have made this mistake. I've intentionally left a typo that I did just make in the above paragraph to illustrate my own tangentially related observation: The typos that tend to occur within my own typing often seem to be the kind produced by one hand not two. By which I mean the typo "vioce" rather than "voice" happened because the fingers of my right hand hit the keyboard in the wrong sequence. Where as typos involving a finger from one hand then a finger from the other (as would need to be the case with "sl" rather than "ls") tend to be less common... for me anyway.

calcnerd256 16y ago

As a dvorak user, I used to type "no" instead of ls (when I was learning dvorak), and I sometimes type "p;" on QWERTY keyboards.

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