Muscle Memory

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

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