🚀 **心流状态与额外心智空间：** 作者强调，提升打字效率的关键在于进入一种“心流”状态。在这种状态下，大脑仿佛进入了“打字模式”，能够更自动化地处理文字输入。这种状态能带来额外的“心智呼吸空间”，使人能够将部分注意力从纯粹的打字操作转移出来。

🧠 **主动预测与避免错误：** 在获得心智呼吸空间后，用户可以主动思考“我接下来可能会犯什么错误？”并着手“避免那个错误”。这包括识别特定按键布局的难点、设备的人体工程学限制、或是习惯性错误，并有意识地在打字过程中加以关注和调整，例如在输入包含特定字母组合的单词时格外留心。

💡 **通用化“应用墨菲定律冥想”模式：** 该技巧的通用模式为：首先进入心流状态，获得可分配的背景注意力；然后，利用过往的错误经验，预测潜在的失败点，并主动调整以避免这些失误。这种方法通过微调动作生成器来逐步优化，而不是从头重写，从而在不牺牲速度的情况下提高准确性，并将效果泛化到其他日常活动中。

🎯 **广泛应用场景：** 这种技巧不仅限于打字，还可以应用于各种需要快速反馈的技能学习，如运动、舞蹈、社交互动、绘画、音乐、速棋等。通过在操作过程中主动预判和纠正失误，可以更有效地提升整体技能水平。

Published on September 29, 2025 6:31 AM GMT

Expanded and generalized version of this shortform

Motivation: Typing Fast

Part of my writing process involves getting words out of my head and into a text editor as quickly as I can manage. Sometimes this involves Loom, but most of the time it is just good old fashion babbling and brainstorming. When I'm doing this, I'm trying to use the text editor as extra working memory/RAM/reasoning tokens/etc. so that I can use my actual brain's working memory to hold the fuzzy thoughts that lie in between those I can put into words. 

Thus, I have put some substantial effort into trying to type fast and with minimal long-term cognitive overhead. 

When I'm trying to practice typing, learn a new layout, or learn a whole new typing device, I tend to apply a technique that lies somewhere in between mindfulness meditation and Murphyjitsu. The steps are:

Start a typing test (can be better with an adversarial test) and try to go for as much speed as you can manage while still being able to do steps 2 and 3.Get into a flow state. This may take a few minutes, maybe more if you haven't done much typing testing of this form. For me, It feels like gaining a bit of mental breathing room, like my brain has settled into 'typing mode' and now I can type the words that pop up on my screen more or less automatically.
This shouldn't feel like losing focus, and in fact losing focus is if anything more of a risk at this stage. There is a gentle balance here between loosening up into a flow state and continuing to focus hard on being good at the test, and it is easy to do too much of either for this trick to work. It is much more like the mindfulness meditation experience of having background attention on several things at once than it is like spacing out. Many times I've gotten semantic satiation or distraction with all the things passing across my vision, and suddenly I'm missing every other character because I'm out of the flow state.
With the extra mental breathing room from step 2, you can divert some attention to the question "what mistake am I going to make next?" and to the task "let's not make that mistake". Things these could feel like:
"On this layout, n is where I'm used to j being, so I pretty consistently press n when I want j. I will pay special attention to words with j in them until I get this fixed.""On this device, it's anti-ergonomic to press h and f in sequence, and I keep slowing down and making mistakes on words like halfhearted or faithful. I'll explicitly practice the skill of reliably doing that quickly.""This layout makes it really fun and convenient to type words containing rst, but I sometimes get too excited and turn forest into forst or bars into barst. I'm going to try and cultivate a more detailed concept boundary that only includes the correct fun and convenient things and not the false positives.""My hand slipped/is weirdly placed/is tired, this seems like it is about to cause a mistake, but now that I'm aware of it I'll just decide to not do that."

When I get into this flow, I'm once again using all of my mental energy, but my accuracy scores go up while maintaining similar speeds, and these improvements carry over to my less attentive, routine typing to some extent. This feels somewhat like (and goes well with^[1]) Tuning Your Motor Cortex in that it is smoothing out the noise and messiness that your muscle outputs face, and getting them to be closer to optimally doing your task at hand. 

Generalizations

The more general pattern for doing Applied Murphyjitsu Meditation on a Thing is:

Get Into a Flow State: Do the Thing well enough to where you have some mental bandwidth to spare in the background. For tasks with longer feedback loops, it can be okay to only sometimes have this background awareness, and may be more feasible in highly mentally demanding tasks.Predict Failures and Stop Them: Look ahead, armed with the knowledge of places you have made mistakes and missteps before, and find places where you may make them again. Adjust your flow state so that it doesn't do that anymore, not just this time before it happens, but in general. Leverage the fact that verifying whether an action is good is easier than generating good ones from scratch to slowly tune your action generator without having to try and rewrite it from scratch.

Specializations

What can you do with this general pattern?

General Athletic/Muscular Things:
What part of my running form will degrade and when? What literal missteps will I make in this dance?
Social Interaction:
Am I about to make a careless/offensive/harsh comment about something? Am I actually meeting the audience at their point of view?
Thinking:
Am I about to think something slowly? Do I already know where this train of thought is going?
If I do, is it going somewhere wrong?
Most Skill Learning with Quick Enough Feedback Loops:
MusicDrawingSpeed chess^[2]That One Skill You've Been Meaning To Learn 

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   This type of Tuning is another layer of computation on top of the rest of this, and shouldn't be done until you get the rest down or you're practiced enough at that type of Tuning to where it is somewhat automatic. 

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   Relatedly, it has been said that one bit of opportunely timed external information is enough to decide a chess game, at the highest levels of competition, since there is a limited time budget to think, and knowing what pivotal move to prioritize with that thinking time can be critical.