You are surely not alone: there are dozens of us! I've done the exact same thing for the last 25 years, it took me 10 years of frustration before I found out t

You are surely not alone: there are dozens of us! I've done the exact same thing for the last 25 years, it took me 10 years of frustration before I found out that I learn & memorize best while writing things down. Somehow the slowness of writing works 10x better for memorizing then typing.