Why do I suddenly make weird typing mistakes for a while

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I get LOTS of online peitions & I notice while singing them & doing other things on computer, I suddenly go through a phase where I'll make the same typing mistake every time practically. It quits after a while & then I have another phase where I make a different typing mistake. For example when I would enter my zip-code, I would swap the same two numbers nearly every time & have to edit & it quit after a month but then I started pressing the 2 instead of the @ sign when entering my email nearly every time. Does anyone have any idea what's going on This may be related to my dyslexia but I don't know why it would change after a while

I get a similar thing quite often (FWIW, I'm not dyslexic). I think that part of it is that when we're typing, our fingers learn a "muscle memory" of certain key-presses, so that even if we're thinking of the right word and know how to spell it, our fingers just get stuck typing the same pattern each time we try to type a certain sequence of letters. It happens more when I'm tired/stressed or when the thoughts are coming faster than I can type them, so that I'm relying more on the muscle memory "autopilot" instead of concentrating on the letters on the screen. My most common one is typing extra "i"s in certain words which have consonants alternating with "i"; for example, "existing" often comes out as "exisiting". It's very annoying when you're a coder and have to get all of your variable and function names letter perfect!

for me , I think is because I type too fast and I make esimple mistakes


^ I only made one mistake then but it's not usually that mistake I usually get letters the wrong way round like TIHS

You could be rite about that Trogluddite. Thanx

I type fast two when I have an idea of what I want to say or how to put it in words & I do make more mistakes then.
I also write like that sometimes & I think the writing is related to my dyslexia but I'm fairly consistent with it, well was when I was writing in skewl. I haven't done much writing since then.