Is my texting messing up my typing skills?

Okay, so, I don’t text too often (a few times a day day or so, it depends on who I’m talking to), but on my iPhone since the little buttons are so small it’s very easy to type the wrong word.

The iPhone auto corrects my words, of course, but I’ve noticed that ever since I have started texting, I have been spelling things wrong more often when I’m typing. I used to be a really good typist – I mean, 110wpm from when I last checked. (When I was in gradeschool I used to get bored and finish my classwork early, so my best friend was Mavis Beacon and her virtual typing class).

When I text, mind you, I type out the whole word. No “lol“s or anything, so it isn’t like I’ve been spelling things badly on purpose.