Sentence examples for hit the wrong key from inspiring English sources

Balls hit the wrong key on his Blackberry and tweeted the now immortal phrase: "Ed Balls".

When, in the old days, you hit the wrong key on your typewriter, you got one wrong character.

By contrast, when transcribing message-board posts, idiosyncrasies of language should be preserved as far as possible and taken as intentional, unless in context they are obviously evidence that the writer has innocently hit the wrong key ("teh," "rihgt").

Chandronait suspects "own" probably turned to "pwn" because the p and o keys are adjacent on a standard keyboard, and gamers, during their quick typing, simply hit the wrong key.

Every time I type "novel," I hit the wrong key + out comes "nivel".

Don't mess with any files that may accidentally pop up if you hit the wrong key combo!

Even if you hit the wrong "keys" accidentally, the super-smart software considers adjacent keys — and corrects your typos automatically.

Every Sunday, I got to try what I'd learned on a real piano, but I'd be so nervous that my hands would shake and I'd hit the wrong keys.

I spend several seconds looking for the right keys to press because it's hard to tell what I'm looking at, and more often than not, I end up hitting the wrong key(s).

Programmers have devised a course of analysis that pays attention to the way we organize our sentences, the prominence and repetition of any given word, spelling and possible transposition and, of course, the keyboard layout that makes hitting the wrong key all too easy.

Even though the pianist tries to avoid errors like hitting the wrong key, such errors nevertheless occasionally occur.