I wouldn't be surprised if that's quite independent of handedness - I've always thought it was caused by the fingers of the left and right hands hitting the keys in the wrong order in their haste.

Possibly, but both 'teh' and 'woudl' involve the left hand coming improperly before the right hand.

I can honestly say that although I (a right-hander) rarely type 'teh' I type 'woudl' probably more often than I type 'would'...

My problem word is "Alison" - it always comes out Alsion first time around. Hmmm, "Wilson" is another - Wislon is the favourite version of that. Strange - the second is the reverse mistake (almost) of the first. (And I'm a righthander too)

I don't think I've ever typed 'teh'. How do people type it, just out of interest? I do first finger of LH on the t, first finger of RH on the h and middle finger of LH on the e. I find it hard to see how I'd reverse those by accident, as 'teh' would mean doing two LH attacks followed by a right one.

Having said that, the word I regularly mistype is 'couple', which almost always comes out as 'copule' (although I've just tried it 5 times and not made that mistake once!?!). For that I must be reversing the first and middle fingers of my RH, as I only use my LH on the c and the e.

I think I've made the Alsion mistake like ros. Can't see how I'd get 'thnaks' as I do a major shift of hand position between the h and the a. Oh, position is another one - the first i's very easy to miss.

I'm right-handed, too, btw.

And sometimes when I'm not looking U agudr n< qgikw gBS IBW Qy ie zjr pzjrt.

By 'third finger' do you mean the one next to your little finger, i.e. your ring finger?

I was using 'first finger' to mean the one next to my thumb, and 'middle finger' to mean the one next to that. I can't imagine having the last but one finger of my RH far enough over to hit the h in 'the', although I suppose if you use your RH for the t then your hand positions are quite different from mine anyway.