Muscle Memory

Muscle Memory.
Highly adroit typists actually have trouble identifying positions of many of the keys on a rating 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 artful explicitly what we are doing," lead researcher Kristy Snyder, a Vanderbilt University alumnus student, said in a university news release. She and her colleagues asked 100 ancestors to complete a short typing test.

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