How to unlock your subconscious?

Erwin

So, here is the deal. Yesterday my brother leaded me to this website http://www.keybr.com/.
I normally type by looking at the keyboard but he told me to not look at the keyboard and try the website as it is. I went ahead and I got to level three. I was kind of impressed since I have never learn how to type properly. I just look at the keyboard and just find my way around. I do not know where the keys are but my brain does. It is kind of interesting that I can know type without looking at the keyboard.
Now I wonder what else my brain knows that I am yet to re-discover.
Do any of you have come across this kind of experience and do you know how can I unlock that part of my brain?

Apreche

It's called muscle memory.

MrRoboto

I guess its just muscle memory... same happens with the guitar, at some point you don't think string 1 fret 3, you just know it. So its not something you "unlock" it's just something that happens after certain amount of repetition.

Erwin

I guess I just have to practice, practice and practice then :P

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How to unlock your subconscious?

God, worst topic description ever. I seriously felt like punching you in the face when I read the title, then just slap you when I read the first post. >_> Silly goose, muscle memory is not locked, or do you have difficulty breathing, walking, running, cycling, picking up objects, etc. All you have to do yes is practice, I learned typing on an old-skool typing machine, with all the letters (and numbers, and I don't know what else), blotted out with a coloured sticker. All you could learn from looking at the keyboard was which keys to hit with which finger, which was pointless since trying to keep your fingers on the homerow and trying to type a key with the wrong finger does not feel pleasant. Also, Das Keyboard II.

Omnutia

"How to develop muscle memory" would have been a better title. You could trigger a stroke which might cause your brain to work differently but, you would be triggering a stroke. You could also try going to sleep.
I would be interested to know how I seem to get better a drawing if I leave it for long periods of time.

kiwi_bird

This is what makes playing instrument possible - muscle memory.

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I would be interested to know how I seem to get better a drawing if I leave it for long periods of time.

Oooh, ooh, I know this one, sort off. If I remember correctly this is because you have unlearned your bad habits from previous drawing escapade, but have retained the good habits you build up over time. Also, your eyes have not stopped working, you have been able to study your surroundings more than you had before (sillier explanation).

George Patches

Muscle memory. Humans have the unique ability to get better at something by doing it repeatedly. I'm typing this by only half looking at the keyboard. I drive stick without every taking my eyes off the road.

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I drive stick without every taking my eyes off the road.

If you took your eyes of the road you wouldn't be able to get a drivers license.

George Patches

I drive stick without every taking my eyes off the road.

If you took your eyes of the road you wouldn't be able to get a drivers license.

Yes...I mastered shifting without looking in about 20 minutes.

Bronzdragon

Muscle memory. Humans have the unique ability to get better at something by doing it repeatedly. I'm typing this by only half looking at the keyboard. I drive stick without every taking my eyes off the road.

besides, you can find a stick by grabbing in mid air until you find it, and then you know which gear you want because... there are only like, 5 or something.

We had to do this sort of thingat school, and damn it's hard when you aren't typing real sentences, or words for that matter.

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We had to do this sort of thingat school, and damn it's hard when you aren't typing real sentences, or words for that matter.

It's a bullshit method. To really practice typing you should be typing real texts, paragraphs of texts.

George Patches

We had to do this sort of thingat school, and damn it's hard when you aren't typing real sentences, or words for that matter.

It's a bullshit method. To really practice typing you should be typing real texts, paragraphs of texts.

That gets you into the habit of typing certain word combinations. I can't tell you hpw many times I've wanted to write "that" and start typing "the."

Funfetus

That gets you into the habit of typing certain word combinations. I can't tell you hpw many times I've wanted to write "that" and start typing "the."

Seriously. And for some reason, whenever I try to type "large hadron collider", I accidentally type "large hardon collider".

Geo

That gets you into the habit of typing certain word combinations. I can't tell you hpw many times I've wanted to write "that" and start typing "the."

Seriously. And for some reason, whenever I try to type "large hadron collider", I accidentally type "large hardon collider".

Churba

That gets you into the habit of typing certain word combinations. I can't tell you hpw many times I've wanted to write "that" and start typing "the."

Seriously. And for some reason, whenever I try to type "large hadron collider", I accidentally type "large hardon collider".

I know exactly how you feel....

Mosquitoboy

That gets you into the habit of typing certain word combinations. I can't tell you hpw many times I've wanted to write "that" and start typing "the."

Seriously. And for some reason, whenever I try to type "large hadron collider", I accidentally type "large hardon collider".

I know exactly how you feel....

Why does your muscle memory want you to type hardon? Do you type this often, and if so... what websites do you frequent. Actually please don't tell me, I don't think I wanna know.

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That gets you into the habit of typing certain word combinations. I can't tell you hpw many times I've wanted to write "that" and start typing "the."

That means you have to type more. Has nothing to do with word combinations, it has to do with the words just being similar. And then it just means that you type 'the' more often than 'that', i.e. your fingers are more used to type a 't', then an 'h' and after that an 'e' instead of an 'a'. Funfetus and Churba seem to type the letter combination 'hard' more often than the letter combination 'hadr'. Which makes perfect sense.

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Why does your muscle memory want you to type hardon? Do you type this often, and if so... what websites do you frequent. Actually please don't tell me, I don't think I wanna know.

Damnit, I should've refreshed before posting. Answer is in the previous paragraph.