Distinction
I have discovered, at least in myself, a clear difference in the flow of my thoughts while typing vs handwriting. It is hard to put a finder on exactly what it is that makes the experience unique for each style of writing, yet each experience is distinct.
Having a note called “Handwriting” that explores the difference between handwritten and typed notes might imply that there is, or should be, a note titled “Typing” or “Computer input” etc. However, in this context, this note will serve as our sole repository for this thought.
Mind Connection
It wouldn’t be a stretch to hypothesize that the pathways the brain uses to command fingers to press down in repeated patterns with relatively high rates of accuracy WHILE processing thoughts and information, are at least tangentially different from the pathways that it would use to move your wrist in (not any less accurately) in tight and precise looping motions and processing thoughts and information.
So the question is, “How deterministic is the method of signal transference from brain to hands in affecting human experience of their own thoughts?“. Additionally, “Does that difference produce interference/modulation fields in our actual thought patterns or how they might be ordered and processed in the mind?“. And finally, “if the differential in method for conveying thoughts to a medium like paper or a keyboard in the brain is effectively zero, then is the perceived experience only different because we decided its different? Or is there something deeper to the perception of internal and external realities based on lived experience than simple signal transference routes from brain to body and vice versa?”
Anyways, here is my MonkeyType score as of right now. Ha Ha.
I am not the fastest typist, but my accuracy is pretty good and I can crank out about 89 wpm if I really focus. I have not done any type of measurement for my handwriting, but I do prefer to write in cursive which helps with speed.
