For some reason I’ve always found the word ‘Javascript’ difficult to type. Javascript misspellings riddle my code, theres pretty much a 25% chance I will make one whenever I type <script type=”text/javascript”>. (I already misspelled it once just typing this)
So I decided to make a page devoted to misspelling this word, because I’m certain there are others like me out there.
Ways I misspell Javascript
Chart and percentage breakdown
- Javsacript : 31%
- Javascrpit : 24%
- Javascirpt : 18%
- Javscript : 16%
- Javscaript : 8%
- Javscraipt : 3%
- Javababe : <1%
Quantifying the misspellings
Estimating the times I type “javascript” each week, between my web dev work, email, IM and blogs brings me to somewhere around 40 a week.
Most times I notice right away if I’ve misspelled Javascript, and I fix it on the spot. Figure the reaction time plus the edit totals 1 second. However, every 8 times or so I don’t notice the mistake. There’s a 50% chance that it will happen in IM or email, and cause no error. However figuring out the error, fixing it and reloading the browser takes on average around 30 seconds (I work in Firebug so it goes quickly 
).
So now for the math. To figure out how much time is lost when I misspell Javasccript it’s just:
7/8 * 1 second for the times I notice immediately + 1/8 * ( 30 seconds * 50% chance I won’t notice it AND it causes a code error ) )
or:
7/8 * 1 + 1/8 * (30 * .5) = 2.75 seconds lost every time I misspell Javascript
Time lost annually
Now multiply this by the number of times I misspell it in a year:
2.75 seconds lost * 25% chance of misspelling * 40 times misspelled each week * 52 weeks in a year = 1430 seconds each year!!!!
Sure that’s only 23 minutes a year, but who’s counting?
Tags: analysis, javascript, spelling, webdev
