This troper plays {{Burnout}} Paradise and Midnight Club: LA on the X360. What is nitro/boost in one game is handbrake in the other (usually A [boost in Burnout, handbrake in MC] or X [handbrake in Burnout, nitro in MC]). Which makes for crashing out the car in Burnout when attempting to boost (and the same when attempting a u-turn via handbrake), and accidentally smashing into a traffic or a cop car when attempting to nitro away (and thereby losing a race at a tight corner by accidentally going into the wall, instead of sliding to victory)

RatchetAndClank. KingdomHearts. Both are PS2 games, and both are two of this troper's favorite video games. They also have control schemes and gameplay that are almost complete opposites of one another. See where I'm going here?

This troper used to play Battlefield 2142 quite a bit and was pretty good at it. Sometimes, if a player sneaks up behind you, they'll try and knife you for a humiliation kill - but hit detection on the knife is terrible, so sometimes they'll miss and you'll hear the ''tink'' of their knife hitting the ground next to you. On at least two occassions later on, I was walking around campus only to hear a faint tinkling sound from somewhere, and spun around as quick as I could in a ready stance.

This troper and his ADD causes problems. Once he starts thinking real hard he just lets muscle memory take care of things, leading to a lot of things he actually didn't want to do. He once went to go get paper towels from the bathroom to clean up a spill, and instead took a shower once he reached the bathroom.

Okay, Tropers, 'fess up. How many of you start looking for the "Edit" button on ''non-editable web pages'' when you find an annoying, easily correctable spelling or grammar error?

*raises hand*

Aaaa-yup.

How many of you nearly try to PotHole a {{YouTube}} comment?

Guilty on both charges.

What do you mean, nearly?

Not only do I look for an "edit" button, I also forget that I am not in MS Word and cannot highlight/edit. Very frustrating

And how many of you have tried to use a WikiWord on IRC and half-expected it to turn into a link?

Not IRC, but a forum. She still is upset that it doesn't turn into a pretty blue link and her not-so-clever potholing skills are for naught.

The TroperIrcChannel has a bot that gives the URL for any wiki worded trope name said on the channel.

And how many of you have tried to place a PotHole in your thoughts!?

And how many of you tried to place a PotHole in RealLife?

How about using apostrophes to ''italic'' or '''bold''' or '''''both'''''?

I don't normally do that, but I've slipped up and apostrophed my italics when working on the mock-trope-page on the wiki for an RP I'm in. (We didn't think the RP was sufficiently large, public, or significant to actually put it on TV Tropes proper, but we maintain a big page o'tropes InTheStyleOf this wiki.)

When I'm talking about TVTropes (or TheOtherWiki) on LiveJournal. Every. Single Time.

And who here looks for an undo button what they mess up a drawing in real life?

BUMPERS DO NOT JUMP IN CoD 4! THAT'S HALO 3! (I use Bumper Jumper)

Not sure if this counts, but this troper will frequently make typos while writing (such as writing "switche'''s'''" instead of "switche'''d'''", or while speaking.

Did the same thing while writing an essay for Spanish class- kept meaning to finish a Spanish word, but instead adding another letter to make it an English word.

This troper has a hard time typing the word ration--no wait, ration--argh! ''ratio''.

In a similar vein, my screenname makes it hard to stop at "r" when typing things like "super".

Whenever this troper attempts to type the state motto of New Hampshire, or even ''say'' it, he always ends up with "Live free or die hard" because of that ''damn'' movie.

This Tropette was typing essays about Romeo and Juliet, and eventually had to set auto-correct to change Romero to Romeo.

This troper recently switched her coaster brake bike with a bike that has hand brakes and for a while panicked when she tries to apply the coaster brake and nothing happens.

I'm a big RPG fan, and I'd been playing a lot of ''NeverwinterNights'' and ''[=KotOR=]'' recently- both use reasonably similar control schemes, including Space for tactical pausing. I then got out ''{{Warcraft}} 3''. In the middle of a big fight, there's often a fair bit of micromanagement needed to get full use out of your casters. So what do I try to do? Why, I press Space to pause the game to give me time to get everything right. Only problem is, in this game, Space moves you to the location of the last important message...

Switching between ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''The Force Unleashed'' tends to result in a lot of Star Bits wasted.

A similar thing happens whenever I play Call of Duty before Bioshock or Left 4 Dead. As a result I often either use a plasmid or melee (respectively) when trying to aim through the sights.

This troper just wants to say that following up programming in Python with typing an essay is NOT a good idea.

This troper concurs; he can't believe how many times he's typed 'if' or 'while' and automatically typed an opening parenthesis.

This troper would like to add switching between two programming languages, especially when they're vaguely similar in syntax, such as Java and Python. After spending lots of time with Java, this troper first kept putting parentheses after "if" and forgetting to put colons in Python, then started to omit semicolons in Java.

In C, argument lists in function declarations are comma-separated. In Lisp, they're space-separated, and commas are used for something completely different. This Troper has gotten a few errors for "comma outside of backquoted expression" due to this.

*blank stare* If you heard a faint whistling sound, that was everything you just said passing over my head...

This troper can explain: Say you're calling a function f with the arguments (inputs) 1, 2, and x. In C, you would write "f(1,2,x)" while in Lisp, it would be "(f 1 2 x)"

Switching between C++ and Java is fun, too. Any object you handle in Java is automatically a pointer. This means they behave roughly the same as C++ pointers, except that you write them like they're not pointers. For member access, for example, a "." in Java does the same thing as a "->" in C++, but a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT thing to a "." in C++.

This troper find just as bad the use of << and >> for streams in C++, where Java usually uses + for concatenation. Meanwhile, Java function calls for IO instead of C++'s streams to cout and from cin, and << and >> in Java are reserved for binary shifts. Examples for the uninitiated:\\ '''To output "x = " and the value of x to the console window and start a new line in Java:''' System.out.println("x = " + x);\\ '''To output "x = " and the value of x to the console window and start a new line in C++:''' cout << "x = " << x << endl;\\ '''To append a space to the end of a String named s in Java:''' s = s + " ";\\ '''To append a space to the end of an ostringstream named s in C++:''' s << " ";\\ And even worse is the use of default constructors. "[=ClassName=] x;" (for static memory allocation) or "[=ClassName=] * x = new [=ClassName=];" (for dynamic memory allocation) in C++ calls the default constructor for a class called "[=ClassName=]", both roughly equivalent to "[=ClassName=] x = new [=ClassName=]();" in Java. Meanwhile, "[=ClassName=] x;" in Java creates a null pointer, equivalent to "[=ClassName=] * x = NULL;" or "[=ClassName=] * x = 0;" in C++. The C++ error message you get for an unneeded pair of parentheses is clear as mud, too.

This troper uses {{UnrealEd}}, Maya, and Photoshop CS3 in his game design courses. They all have mutually-exclusive interface schemes with one exception: Alt-F4. I also have to use Final Cut Pro; Macs have different function keys than Windows and only one mouse button.

Nerd rage - rising ...

OMG YES!!! Why can't they all agree that "CTRL-Z" is undo (and you can undo up the history as many times you want) and "CTRL-Y" is redo? At least all of Microsoft Office's CTRL keyboard shortcuts agree with each other...

Option(=alt)-click on a Mac = right click. Or just plug in a normal PC mouse, and...right-click.

My bike: Paddle shifters. My GF's bike: Twist shifters. Me+GF's bike=Accidental braking.

At one point, this troper somehow got the IRL motion of glancing at her watch associated with opening the menu of a video game. When exploring a new college campus, she spent a good several seconds looking at her watch and trying to remember which command would pull up the map... that she was holding in her other hand.

You wouldn't happen to be a fan of Goldeneye?

If you start doing that IRL, you ''' ''might'' ''' wanna consider taking a bit of a break from the game, hon...

This troper has been a casual ballroom dancer for several years and still struggles when she switches from any dance with smooth, light steps to any of the Latin dances.

This troper was a tetris grandmaster on the computer. Then he switched from a Widescreen laptop to a smaller one with about 75% the size keyboard. Many a game has been lost due to hitting up instead of Shift at the wrong moment, causing a turn instead of swapping out the Terimino.

Try playing ''FinalFantasyIX'' and ''Yugioh GX Tag Force Evolution'' back to back. You'll wonder why the menus are broken.

You can also try playing the XBOX360 clone of ''FinalFantasyXIII'' and ''DragonQuestIX'' back and forth. You'll be pressing A when you want to press B and vice versa, you'll also be opening the map (button X) insted of the menu (button Y) a hell lot of the time. Happy frustration!

''RedAlert 3'': Use ability with right mouse button. DawnOfWar 2: Left mouse button. See where This Troper is going?

This Troper had the same problem, in reverse. He went from RedAlert ''2'' to DawnOfWar, and spent his first three hours with the game getting massacred by selecting enemy units instead of blowing them to kingdom come.

This troper has, on multiple occasions, attempted to press ctrl-z or the like while writing with pen and paper.

Same - I've done art on the computer for years, and still find myself looking for the "undo" button when drawing with pen and paper. I've also caught myself checking the bottom-right corner of mirrors, etc. for the clock.

Dear lord, I'm not the only one whose done this? Funny thing though, after it happened, it made me feel more depressed than anything else: #QUOTE# Troper: (Makes a mistake while drawing. Does the Ctrl-Z motion with his fingers.) #QUOTE# *Nothing happens.* #QUOTE# Troper: (Remembers that he's not at a computer.) ''Sigh'' (Picks up eraser and erases his mistake ''manually''.)

Me in both {{Battlezone}} games (From Activision and Pandemic Studios), I have caught Myself telling a Recycler/Matriach to deploy on a Scrap pool (Which resembled geysers from the first game in which Your Recycler/Factory/Armoury deploys on)

This troper often, when he can't find something in his room, will want to press apple+space, the OS search function in Mac OSX.

This troper on the other hand, constantly prays for an crtl+F function when doing book research.

This troper became fed up with wanting a "control+F" for books after it happened so many times, that he started finding PDFs of books, so he could do exactly that. They're more common than you'd think.

This troper used that command for switching IME’s since Panther. In Tiger, that got shoved out of the way for Spotlight... and so for every new install, it's been Damn You Muscle Memory indeed.

This Troper will forever curse Visual Studio's mapping of Ctrl+W to "open utility window", due to it being the "close tab/window" button in pretty much ''everything else''.

In La Pucelle: Tactics, the Execute and End Turn commands are switched in contrast to how they're used in many other SRPGs (N1 and otherwise), often making me lose turns.

Whenever this troper goes back to play one of the ''LegendOfZelda: Oracle'' games, she always seems to get the urge to play one of the classic ''Pokemon'' games at the same time. This results in attempting to open Link's pokemon menu, and attempting to slash grass with Red's sword.

I played ''MegaMan & Bass'' via emulation before its US release. As I did with all the ''MegaManX'' & ''MegaManZero'' games, I mapped Bass' dash to the R button. When the [=GBA=] release came out, they took out control mapping, so the only way to dash is double-tap forward. It makes Bass' game unnecessarily hard.

I'm forever instinctively center-clicking links when I'm forced to use Internet Explorer, in which it brings up the directional scroller. In Firefox (which I use), this opens the link in a new tab. And speaking of IE (specifically IE6): Clicking a read link or a comment link in ''Engadget'' will always crash IE6. I've killed many a session forgetting that. Now guess what the entire district where I work uses?

Strangely, that first bit is the way I discovered middle-clicking opens a new tab in Firefox; I was trying to scroll around in an iframe, and wondered where this tab was coming from...

Firefox: Ctrl+F and start typing. If you've serched once since opening the browser, go down and to the left. IE: Ctrl+F, up and to the right.

It gets worse: depending on the browser, the text box for "Find" can appear in the lower left (Firefox), upper right (IE7/Chrome), or upper left (IE8).

For some reason, the default page-turning action on the eBookwise is the upper of the two page-turn buttons. 20 years of computers tell me that ''down'' moves toward the ''end'' of a document. This is "reverse paging" in the [=eBookwise=] settings. Why? I dunno.

well, think for a second. when you're reading a physical book, do you grab the upper corner or the bottom corner when you turn a page?

The middle of the page.

Bottom, or the page itself. That leaves this (right-handed) troper's left hand free to type.

In a ''FreeSpace 2 VideoGame/WingCommander'' mod, This Troper kept hitting the wrong key for missile launch. This is a fairly impressive testament to the success of the mod, considering it had been about seven years since he had played an authentic Wing Commander game.

If you think that's bad, try moving from the ''X-Wing'' series to ''FreeSpace 2''. By default, the button that means "Target ship in reticle" in the X-Wing games means "Fire secondary weapon" in FreeSpace.

Jonn kept finding himself flanking other units in ''AdvanceWars'', despite the full knowledge that that mechanic thing was from FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance, a game he had last played more than ''years'' earlier.

This troper is a bad example of this whenever he plays the online multiplayer tetromino game ''Blockles''. On most ''Tetris'' clones that he plays on his computer, he maps A and D to counterclockwise rotation, S to clockwise, Space to hold piece (if it exists), Left and Right for sideways movement, Up for fast drop, and Down for slow drop. Well, Blockles has a very counterintuitive control scheme: Left and Right are sideways movement, Down is fast drop, and this is where similarities end: fast drop (and he means locking hard drop, not the "firm drop"/"sonic drop" feature from ''Tetris: The Grand Master'' that he's accustomed to) is '''Space''', counterclockwise rotation is '''Up''', and there's no clockwise rotation button. This leads to misdrops involving hitting Space with the intent to hold a piece (''Blockles'' doesn't have this feature) or Up to do a fast drop. It gets worse at times when he mistakes Space for, for whatever reason, the ROTATE button. Although he can get around this by using JoyToKey to map keyboard buttons to one of his game controllers, there's only so much he can do when he has ''one rotation button!''

Play ''{{Halo}} 3''. Then play Mirror's Edge less than a minute afterwards. Then after that play Dead Rising. It will INFURIATE you.

This troper picked up ''TheLegendOfZelda: Twilight Princess'' recently after a long time, and started cursing her thumbs almost immediately. It turns out, in many games, a context-sensitive "A" button will prompt your character to pull him or herself up over a ledge when hanging onto it. In LegendOfZelda, it prompts you to ''let go of the ledge''. This contributed to many, ''many'' falls to a horrible fiery death in lava when said Troper got to the Goron Mines...

This Troper has this problem with ''speech''. If I've been talking about trees for a while, the next time I try to use the word "three" I will mess it up.

That ain't nothing. He finds himself inadvertantly using English spellings when speaking French, ''his native tongue''.

This troper did karate for quite a while. So watch how he reacts to any sudden move in his 1 meter proximity.

This troper has the same reaction, and he's never had any martial arts training. Must've watched way too many shonen anime to drop into something resembling a fighting stance whenever something unexpected happens...not that I'll stop. Strangely, I have the same reaction in video games, which often leads to a "save it for the enemy" or "I'm on ''your'' side" moment. If playing on my team, either remain visible at all time or make sure friendly fire is turned off.

This one too. He has no idea where he got it from though. 2 months of Tae Kwon Do, that was some 6 years ago. He's still advising people to not be behind me, lest he accidentally maul them.

After growing up learning Kung Fu, this troper still elbows people who enter a nine inch zone behind him. Regrettably, he can't stop it.

I had a variant of the above problem. Whenever someone places their hand on my shoulder from behind me, I will automatically pivot and smack their arm away with a downward elbow... followed by an upward elbow to the chin/nose. I barely managed to restrain myself from doing it to my 80-year-old ''grandfather'' once.

This troper did martial arts for eight and a half years, throughout his childhood and adolescence. He's been out of the game for 3 years now, but he still has scarily quick reflexes when defending himself, and the ability to do very nasty things to a person very quickly. Unfortunately, this has led to dumb playground fights having...disproportionate endings. Gotten him in a lot of trouble.

The first 3D games I ever played were flight sims. In flight sims, you push the stick forward to point your nose downward. Now I occasionally play console [=FPSes=] with my friends, on dual analogue, in which you pull the stick backward to aim down. Needless to say, every time I play I need to invert the stick, else I'll spend the whole game alternately staring at the ground or the sky. (Since I'm on someone else's console, I can't just leave it set like that, either.)

Seconded. Worse, my first FPS was ''DukeNukem3D'', which played like a flight sim, which led to many problem when switching to other games...

And on the same theme, ''FinalFantasyVII'': Highwind vs. Speed Square.

Before college, I worked mainly with [=PCs=], and the Macs at school were always iMacs - computer and monitor in one. So the first time I encountered a Mac tower, I spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out where the button was that would make the CD/DVD drive open. When I finally went to another student for help, I was directed to the "eject" button on the keyboard... that I hadn't remembered was even there.

This troper is a fan of the ''GodOfWar'' and ''DynastyWarriors'' series, which have virtually identical control setups. In God of War, being able to roll quickly to evade attacks is a major part of the gameplay, but in Dynasty Warriors 5, there is no roll maneuver, which has caused this troper to accidentally activate (and waste) a Musou Rage token while trying to roll out of the way of an enemy attack, because they're both mapped to the right analogue stick. Also, the O button is the grab in God of War, but in Dynasty Warriors, it activates your Musou attack. Yeah...

This troper's brother started playing ''TombRaider 2'' after an extended addiction to Rayman. I will never let him live down using a key on the keyboard to try to get Lara to use her hair to fly instead of the key for jumping.

I (screw "This Troper") had problems when first playing the {{MMORPG}} Space Sim ''Jumpgate'', after years of playing VideoGame/WingCommander. Jumpgate uses pseudo-Newtonian physics for ship movement, while Wing Commander... does not. As going too fast when you dock can kill you in Jumpgate, trying the Wing Commander landing routine, which is speed-independent, can become messy, particularly since cutting the throttle does ''not'' stop you almost instantly, like it does in WC. If your ship is loaded with heavy cargo, you generally can't turn tail-first and counter-thrust in time before going "splat".

It always throws me for a loop whenever I go back to play ''FinalFantasyTactics'' after playing.. pretty much any other game, really, only to find that the button that's usually "cancel" is suddenly the "select" button and vice-versa. Sure, it makes sense: O for yes, X for no, but still...

This troper can't remember how many times he was frustrated when starting a new game on ''FinalFantasyVII''. He has no idea any more with what game he trained himself into it, but ''X is yes, Triangle is page back!'' Makes the Gold Saucer minigames so much more frustrating since the instructions go by the original controls instead of the personalized ones.

This troper often has trouble with the new dualspec system in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' because his specs feature very different button configurations. He keeps pressing the wrong buttons when playing on his secondary spec because he's used to the configuration on his main spec.

Whenever this troper is forced to use Internet Explorer for reasons of compatibility, he finds himself spending a lot of time trying to use the mouse gestures that he has installed in Firefox.

Having played ''{{Crysis}}'' this troper continues to try to switch suit modes in every other FPS he plays.

This troper was recently visiting a friend who lives in Washington DC. As he was entering the area, he idly noticed a sign for the Pentagon. Hey, the Pentagon! I wonder how the Brotherhood is doing nowadays? I'll just pull up my pipboy and hop on over - DAMNIT!

A police office this troper once read about in her Psychology textbook used to train himself how to knock guns out of criminals' hands. He'd set up a scenario where a friend would point a gun at him, he'd grab it, aim it at said friend, then give it back. Then he met a criminal with a gun. It worked wonderfully, and he disarmed the man... and then he gave it back. Luckily, the criminal was too shocked to do much but hold the gun and stare until the other officers came and took him down.

There are many more stories like this floating around. Apparently, in episodes of high stress / heartrate, most people start relying on muscle memory to the exclusion of their brain. Two examples:

A private detective happens to be in the habit of dialing Information instead of writing numbers down. While cleaning his gun one evening, he shoots himself. He tries to dial 911... but his fingers dial 411. He does this ''several times over'', knowing exactly what's going on but unable to help himself.

When shooting on the range, if empty shells are expended (I don't know from guns), it is apparently customary to pocket them for tidiness. On the battlefield, this wastes time and is not recommended. Nevertheless, soldiers on the battlefield would later find shells in their pockets with no memory of putting them there.

The ''HalfLife2'' vs. ''Left4Dead'' example is a real-life story.

Camera control conflict: ''SkiesOfArcadia'' versus ''TheLegendOfZelda: The Wind Waker''.

Happens with this troper often when playing a new game after spending a long time playing one of a similar genre. Not entirely the same, but he can't under any circumstances write while singing; he ends up writing the lyrics instead.

Averted by this troper, who can remember which buttons do what on a controller and can separate TV remotes. Sadly, my dad refuses to hand me the remote when he can't find what he's loooking for.

Last time I wrote an English essay, I kept referring to things by their trope names. Would also count as a TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, if not for the fact that I not only got an A, but extra credit.

Going from SuperMarioGalaxy to VideoGame/SuperMario64 found me shaking the controller for an no-exsistent spin-jump

Also going from Mario Kart Wii to Mario Kart DS found me tilting my friends DS trying to steer. D'oh

A case of DamnYouMuscleMemory actually '''''helped''''' this troper. Whilst playing EpicMickey, he attempted a jump and nearly fell short, which would have resulted in a never-ending plummet to Mickey's death. His habit of making poor jumps and then spinning carried over from SuperMarioGalaxy to EpicMickey. Mickey's swing attack gave him '''''just''''' enough distance to catch the ledge and stop from falling.

At one point, I was going back and forth between ''EccoTheDolphin: Defender of the Future'' and ''TheLegendOfZelda: Majora's Mask''. The first is, basically, a very pretty 3D dolphin simulation, and the second has some of the best underwater controls in the ''Zelda'' series; at one point in ''Majora'', I attempted to do a quick-stop from ''Defender'' while swimming around as Zora-Link. ...Did I mention ''Majora's Mask'' is a Nintendo 64 game and ''Defender'''s for the [=DreamCast=]? - Tropers/SparkyLurkdragon

After a nostalgia-trip session of Driver and Driver 2, this troper switched back over to GTA IV. Most control differences are easy to reconcile, with one exception: L1 in Driver is sharp turn. In GTA IV, it fires your weapon. Needless to say, local law enforcement was unsympathetic.

This troper always plays one video game exclusively for a long period of time, and then plays nothing until finding another one, so certain patterns get very ingrained. A Star Wars Battlefront period (where the circle button rolls) was followed by my current passion for KingdomHearts(I). Where the circle button is ''jump''. Cue spending THE FIRST FIVE WORLDS of Kingdom Hearts trying to Dodge Roll away from an attack ''and instead jumping right into it.'' Poor Sora took a lot of undeserved verbal abuse. Bizarrely, never once did I confuse any other commands.

Non-video-game-related example: a fencing drill requiring this troper to never advance, retreat, or lunge. You could parry their attack or hit your partner if they stayed too close to you, but that was it. This troper's instinctive strategy is to jump backwards from attacks and then charge at the opponent recklessly (which isn't the best of strategies anyway). DamnYouMuscleMemory approximately every other minute. It didn't help that the instructor's corrections were, if not Crowning, at least Bejewelling Moments of Funny, causing this troper to break into unrepentant-sounding giggles despite extreme frustration.

This troper (Darkurai recently changed his control settings in The Conduit to something he finds superior due to Wiimote waggle no longer throwing off his aim. However, this led to doing what I thought would finish off the guy in front of me whose face was just shotgunned and was quickly reloading, but actually ''made me face the other direction.'' Speaking of which, trying to turn around leads to throwing a ''grenade at the wall in front of me.''

This troper has found what he thinks is the perfect PC FPS control system. He puts his movement keys in the middle of the keyboard (TGFH). With this setup, he has around 15 more buttons accessible with his left hand, instead of the 9 he can reach using WASD. Hilarity Ensues whenever anybody else tries to play an FPS on his computer, as (among other things) he canonically maps use to A, auxiliary menus to E, and weapon change settings to S and/or D...

In an inversion of the full-size-keyboard-to-laptop example on the main page, {{JET73L}} usually types with his right hand while using his left arm to hold up the laptop. Since he is rather large and his hands are sized to fit, it's more efficient to type with just one hand anyway on the 90% desktop size keyboard with keys about as third as tall as a desktop keyboard. Not so much when it comes to using a university terminal or borrowing a PC, where his figertips keep getting caught and his alt/ctrl/shift habits go out the window.

This Troper, upon picking up ''TheLegendOfZelda: The Minish Cap'' for the first time in years, she ran into a bit of a problem: The bushes in that game were too similar to the tall grass in ''{{Pokemon}} Pearl'', causing her to habitually avoid them. After a while, however, she managed to stop doing that. However, when she went back to Pokemon again after that...

Opera browser has mouse gestures. This troper doesn't use most of them, but "Back" and "Forward" are so ingrained in this troper's memory, that he always has a hard time in IE.

This Troper was arranging a song to be played on piano, and after a few days was told that it'd sound better if the left hand took the melody for part of it. I found it totally impossible and had to switch my arms over in a highly uncomfortable way to even be able to play it sounding like that at all. I happened ot not play the song for about a week, and was then able to retrain myself appropriately.

This troper, when he was regularly playing ''InitialD Arcade Stage 4'', would have no problems transisting from other driving games to that, but going from ''Initial D 4'' to another racing game ''always'' posed a problem due to the unique way ''[=ID4=]'' is played--on ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3'', for instance, he would steer too hard or attempt to tap the brake to initiate penalty cancel. Additionally, he has no problem driving his real-life car after playing most racing games for a long time, but if he's been playing ''[=ID4=]''' for a long time, he initially finds himself not turning the wheel hard enough to make a real turn. ItGotWorse when one of the arcades around his area upgraded their ''Initial D 4'' cabinet from the more common version 1.2 to 1.5, which significantly alters a mechanic involving entering a corner too fast. Needless to say, he doesn't play ''Initial D'' anymore.

Upon reaching the bottom of this page, This Troper left clicked the link, rather than right-click slight down, left click, which is open link in new tab in K-Meleon, and probably other browsers, which I usually do. I had to press backspace to get back here and edit. Damn you lack of muscle memory!

This Troper has two Volvos, both mid-eighties 240 series. One is a two door sedan with turbocharger, body bracing, strut tower bracing, thickened sway bars, Bilstein shocks, Yokohama touring tyres, four speed gearbox with overdrive and a radio that is low down in the center of the dash. The ''other'' Volvo is a completely stock base model wagon with a five speed gearbox and a radio located high in the center of the dash. My morning commute is a daily game of DamnYouMuscleMemory as I reach the wrong place for the radio, try to shift into a non-existent fifth gear, tap the top of my gearshift trying to hit the overdrive button that's on the other car or wonder when the hell the turbo's going to spin up before realizing that this is as fast as I'm going to go. Then I reach a corner and my brain forgets I don't have $1,000 worth of handling upgrades until the car starts to oversteer and lean like a galleon in a strong wind.

This troper, while playing ''Half-Life 2'', kept trying to do ''Mirror's Edge'' parkour moves.

This troper died in the first dungeon of "Ocarina of Time" Master Quest because of this trope.

This troper's brother played waaay too much Urban Terror, which uses the usual T to chat. He then found himself writing an essay for school. And starting every sentence with t.

Occasionally, this troper will play an arcade game, but accidentally have his fingers shifted to the side, so as to be over the wrong buttons. Naturally, throwing a grenade when you needed to jump, or jumping when you needed to attack doesn’t usually end well.

This troper had worked as a cashier for a couple years before ever using the service desk register, which faces the opposite way from the store's regular checkouts with approximately half of functions reversed. Let's just say I'd be a dangerous man in a right-hand-drive car.

Same guy, years earlier, a HighSchool woodshop assignment was to modify oars to accept large knobs (off-the-shelf doorknobs) on the ends. This was for a camp for special needs kids, to prevent the oars from falling through the oarlocks. Rule Number One of rowing is "Don't drop the oars"; using a non-electric wheelchair is about the same movement except that you let go at the end. It was explicitly explained to us as a muscle-memory thing.

This troper has been playing some BulletHell games lately. In most of these made by Cave, you slow down by holding down the shooting button, which will also activate a laser or somesuch depending on the game. In the {{Touhou}} series, you press a different button entirely to slow down, which can get a bit harrowing if you need slow down and realize you're already holding down the shoot button. Also, bombs are lifesaving mechanisms, but while Touhou gives you a fraction of a second after being hit to activate them... well, most other games don't. D'oh!

''Touhou'' offers a "Slow Down" mode which has Cave-style slowdown (hold fire to activate focus mode).

''{{R-Type}} Dimensions'' + ''StreetFighter IV'' Fight Pad + A to shoot and X to release and retrieve Force Pod + unremappable controls = What? Force button is ABOVE fire button?!

This troper spends so much time screwing around on this wiki that he keeps trying to italicize stuff with double apostrophes.

He also once played Star Wars Battlefront for so long that he started instinctively tapping the dpad to reload. While playing Super Smash Bros. He also tends to ArchiveBinge on manga and webcomics simultaneously, so he always reads everything in the wrong order because of the switching.

This troper can't play ''{{NetHack}}'' on a public server, because he uses the arrow keys to move in his copy, but public servers use HJKL.

This troper used vi on linux so much at one point that whenever he tried to use Microsoft Word, he would try to save it the way you save something in vi. This led to a greet on IRC that only unix users understood: You might use vi too much if you try to save a Word document by using :w

*waves* Been there, done that, would get the T-shirt if they made one.

So does this troper. He finds himself typing :wq everywhere or pressing ^D (log out from a terminal in Linux) to exit a CMD session in Windows. Also, ending everything with a ; when programming in anything other than C.

This troper has tried to close instant message windows with ":wq" and "exit", both of which seriously confused the people he was talking to.

This troper has pretty much forced this on himself between a few games on Steam. One key does something entirely different among three different games that run on the same engine and control pretty much exactly the same, which is especially troubling because in one of those games the key in question is bound to "self-inflicted CriticalExistenceFailure".

And this, folks, is why Steam gave us the option to edit which keys we use. Of course, after playing with a certain set for a while, changing it just makes this worse.

Up until this year, every true/false test I had ever taken which was to be marked with X's and O's used the logical X-for-No, O-for-Yes setup. For some reason, this year's teacher wants hers to be marked the opposite way- X is yes, O is no. Apparently, I can sit with the test in front of me and say, "Okay, idiot, X is YES!" and then proceed to mark it the wrong way. To the point where I think, "Alice was a dictator. True. X." and still manage to write an O.

After habitually playing F-Zero GX and walking everywhere for a few months, the semester ended and this troper started the long drive home. Partway back on the highway, another vehicle gradually pulled up beside him to pass. Mentally, I hit the X button and jerked the analog stick towards the other car. This is how you '''ram other vehicles off the road''' in F-Zero GX. I took a break from that game for a while.

This trope is why dotchan prefers BLU in TeamFortress2. Years of playing video games has pounded into her head that blue = ally and red = enemy, and shooting at her teammates wastes ammo. At least as a Pyro, it means she can sometimes catch a Spy in the act.

This Troper actually has made critical fumbles due to muscle memory... in the same game. Being a Soldier fanatic in Team Fortress 2, the muscle memory's something like 'fire rockets until enemy's nearly down, then switch to shotgun and finish him off'. So while trying out the new Soldier unlocks (two of which are not actual weapons but still replace the shotgun in the secondary slot) I was often caught holding the Buff Banner, rather than the shotgun which I had hoped to pull out...

This Troper has an example that tops most others. Once, he had been having computer troubles and when he realized it basically was beyond hope without reinstalling Windows, he left the reinstall running during a 35 minute wait period, went to do some sketching (yes, on paper) and thought to himself ''multiple times'' that "I should probably save in case the program crashes again". Facepalm when he realized that ''reality'' has no save button...

Although it sure would be nice if it did, wouldn't it?

Hey, I've tried to hit command-F to search for keywords when reading a physical paper more times than I can count.

Reality needs a save button, an undo button, a redo button, and a find button. The fact that it doesn't have one has apparently not gotten through my brain yet. (Yes, I spend too much time typing on the computer. Why do you ask?)

This (brand-new) Troper is unable to play {{Marathon}} and {{Half-Life}} 2 within the same one-week (or so) period. What's really annoying is that *both* of those games allow you to fully customize the controls and I don't use the default set for either game, meaning I get hung up on the little things. Half-Life expects that you'll use the mouse/trackpad for movement, creating the most annoying discrepancies from what I'm used to in Marathon. (Left arrow is sidestep left in Half-Life; it's turn left in Marathon.) Since I got Marathon first (and Marathon started as a Mac-exclusive anyway), I used command as my run key, which created boatloads of annoyance when I switched to Half-Life, since Windows doesn't recognize the command key, forcing me to use option/alt, which is my *sidestep* key in Marathon. (To add an additional layer of annoyance, pressing command while running Windows using all my Mac hardware opens the start menu, minimising anything you happened to be doing at the time. At least it has the decency to *pause* the game before it hides it away from me because I pressed what my muscle memory remains convinced is the sprint key!)

Try and figure this out:

''Roblox'' gameplay controls: WASD for movement (also arrow keys), right mouse button (click and hold) + move cursor = camera, "/" is the prompt for chatting, numbers keys are mapped to whatever's in your Inventory (changes between games and depending on what Gear you have), and other keys change based on the level, like the Y key starts a car engine if you have a car tool active.

''Toontown Online'' gameplay controls: Arrow keys ONLY for movement, camera is locked behind player (though angles can be cycled through with Tab key), letter and number keys go directly to chat, right-clicking does nothing, left mouse button is used for the [=SpeedChat=] Menu and pretty much any other menu-based stuff, including Cog Battles.

See the problem?

After playing on her Nintendo DS for years, getting a PSP made this troper curse this trope. Since, you know, on the DS "A" usually means select and "B" means cancel, while on the PSP "X" (located where "B" is on the DS) is select and "O" is cancel. Constantly switching between them is all the more annoying, because once she gets used to one, she'll be doing that particular muscle memory on the other for at least half an hour.

Speaking of X and O, this troper has that problem going from Asian-region games to US-region and vice versa. (In the former, "O" is confirm" and "X" is cancel; in the latter, it's the other way around.) This is particularly bad in the ''DJMAX Portable'' series; of all the games in the series, only one, ''DJMAX Fever'', is US-region, causing him to accidentally make a lot of wrong menu decisions when he goes from any other game to ''Fever''.

This troper's having the same problem with Super Robot Wars MX Portable. He constantly finds himself mashing the "O" button on the Home menu to get to the game before realizing to press "X". He adjusts quickly to most control switches, though.

This troper has had "turn the lights off when you enter a room" shoved into his head for so long that he turns on the light in his bathroom then turns it off when he leaves. Said light is burnt out.

This troper once stayed the night at a friend's house, playing Link's Crossbow Training for the Wii until four in the morning (for a total of eight hours.) At that time, said friend decided to go to bed, and I decided to try my hand at Resident Evil 4, also for the Wii. Completely different controls.

This troper has done this to himself after buying a second Wiimote and using it to play both ''HouseOfTheDead OVERKILL'' and ''The Umbrella Chronicles'' GunsAkimbo. The most jarring issue is that the reticule colors for each player is reversed between the two games.

Whenever this troper plays ''StarFox 64'' and goes through Aquas, he spams the A (shot), B ([[strike:bomb]] torpedo), and R (DoABarrelRoll) buttons to BS through the stage. So when he gets to the stage after, Zoness, and forgets that his B button weapon is once again limited in stock and that he's now in the air instead of underwater...

''CityOfHeroes'', by default, uses Q and E to turn left and right and A and D for strafing. I actually like this setup, but not well enough to change every other game's keybindings to make it consistent. So, when switching to or from [=CoX=], I often find myself strafing when I mean to turn and vice versa. (I also tend to hit space trying to jump, even if there's no jump command in the other game.)

Do not go back to traditional [=FPSs=] after playing Fallout 3 for a long time. I was playing Left 4 Dead 2 while screaming "Y IS NOT JUMP! WHY IS Y NOT JUMP!" and confusing the heck out of my friends.

This troper's family has two silver Chrysler Town & Country vans, 2000 and 2002. The parking-brake-release on the 2000 model is in the same location as the HOOD RELEASE on the 2002 model. Cue swearing, getting out, and slamming the hood back down (luckily I have never opened it twice in a row... yet.)

On the subject of parking brake releases. Guess what's in the same place as the clutch on my other car. Clutch goes all the way in to disengage, so I can start the car. Parking brake goes all the way in to lock the wheels in place.

Another car related example. My father's car's hand brake is to the right of the driver, like in most right-hand drive cars. My mother's car's is on the left side. The levers for the wipers are also just the other way round (up vs. down). I mostly use my father's car, so this happens a lot on the few occasions I do use my mother's car.

This Troper is quite reluctant to try out fighting games on MAME because of how whacked the control schemes get, hell, getting ultimate mortal kombat 3 to imitate my MUGEN control setup was a bitch in itself.

In my school district, we must wear ID badges at all times. This leads to habits of fiddling with them all day at school, and constantly checking to make sure they're there. Many people (including myself) will forget them for a day or so, and never notice they're gone. But everyone I know will freak out for a second when they reach for their ID and can't find it outside of school, like at the mall, or out to eat, or asleep in bed. I've even had times when I've exited the shower and reached for my ID badge and freaked. I'm not even wearing clothes, and I expect it to be there.

Must be too many NotWearingPants dreams ;p

This troper frequently has trouble navigating menus in US-region PlayStation games. Why? In nearly every other video game system ever made, the button for "confirm" is immediately to the right of the "cancel" button and usually a little ways up. This standard was even maintained in Japanese PlayStation games. So why the frak did the numbskulls at SCEA change it for the US?

There is no sprint button in Fallout 3! Pressing the left stick makes you ''crouch''! Seriously, that's happened to me too many times for me to remember. I end up taking damage that I could have avoided but didn't because I thought I would sprint away while instead I was crouching.

For reasons this troper cannot comprehend, on either side of her up key is a € key and a $ key (the second is doubly weird since shift-4 does the exact same thing). Trying to scroll up in a document and finding a string of $$s or €€s. It's incredibly annoying.

No, it doesn't matter what game I play, but if it's on a console and involves fighting I ''will'' press my left index finger for Free Run. The consequences are often fatal.

This troper's most frequented forum recently switched the order of two sub-boards, one of which she checks occasionally and the other all the time. True, the change was asked for because another pair of similar sub boards which this troper neglects is in that order, but she still winds up at the former board more often than she wants to.

This troper unlocked the Mirror Mode in Mario Kart for the Wii - every track I'd previously done, except a mirror image, meaning ''every turn was switched from left to right or from right to left.'' So those tracks I could practically do with my eyes closed? Totally backwards. All i could think of was this trope.

A few tales from this troper:

Growing up as I did in the DOS era, I got it ingrained into my head that CTRL and ALT were the keys to do something in platformers. Usually jump and fire. Then came the Windows key. I got so frustrated at calling up the Start menu that on any game that would let me, I remapped what had previously been mapped to CTRL and ALT to Z and V, because they were roughly the same distance apart.

This troper has actually managed to avoid having windows keys on his gaming keyboard. When I can't resist any more I will do to my keyboard what I did to that of a friend who was also fed up with hitting the windows key in games. I'll remove the windows key with a screwdriver.

There is a version of the Berkeley Tools for Windows. Once placed in the system32 folder, these little programs allow use of some simple Unix commands in the Windows command prompt. After getting used to typing 'ls' everywhere, including in DOSBox, I would always get tripped up by having to type 'dir' on machines that don't have it. On the other hand, now, Windows PowerShell allows ls automatically.

I got into CoD 4 for a few months. I had remapped Melee to mouse button 4 on my Logitech MX518. And then I went back to Team Fortress 2 for a while. Several times, I expected my medic to whip out the bonesaw with a single click.

This troper has developed the unfortunate habit of trying to CTRL+F books.

Same.

This troper died to Killer Croc several times in ''BatmanArkhamAsylum'' because he kept pressing the "Use" button rather than the "Detonate" button, and didn't realize what was happening for a few minutes.

How many times have I tried to press the Y button to use my bike on a GBA Pokemon game, after having played Platinum for a while? Likewise, how many times have I tried to use the bike with Select on Platinum? The answer is: a fucking lot.

This Troper usually wears a family heirloom ring, and fiddles with it constantly. I left it at home one day by accident, and several times during the day I ended up touching my finger and trying to twist a ring that wasn't here.

This Troper, having gone from WarioWare Smooth Moves to Twisted, took an embarrassing amount of time to figure out you had to press the A button to jump in Wario Man's boss stage. Curse becoming used to physically carrying out the action!

This troper once tripped on a bus because the bus usually went before he sat down. Whenever a bus driver waits for him he stumbles about halfway through the aisle.

I work at a Netflix hub (the place where the [=DVD=]s are shipped to and from) as a ripper (the poor fuck who has to spend hours a day ripping the mailers). After a few weeks of doing this (to the point that I can do it without thinking AT ALL) the machine that sticks the [=DVD=]s in the mailer broke, so we were asked to stay later to pick up the slack (for extra pay, of course). The problem was that I was so used to throwing the mailers out that I had to stop myself from throwing away ones that were meant for you assho... I mean, fine folks. To go with this incident I actually said "damn you muscle memory!!!" (although I felt better when I saw that everyone else was haveing the same problem, at least I wasn't just stupid).

They've got ''people'' doing that?! I always figured there was a machine.

I enjoy KnightsOfTheOldRepublic and {{Morrowind}}. In KOTOR, space pauses the game, left click moves you forward, right click makes the cursor visible and allows you to click on your inventory/etc., tab switches party leader, and caps lock does nothing. In Morrowind, space is "use item", left click is "attack with melee/range/magic", right click brings up the in-game menu, tab does nothing, and caps lock is the walk/run button. Sort of frustrating if I switch between the two.

Same troper here, but whenever I type "Morrowind", I instinctively want to type "morrowing". This happens a lot with typing.

Try swapping from a vehicle that has the gearshift as a lever behind the wheel (Mazda B2500 truck), to one that has it at the console on the driver's right (Kia Sedona van). I kept turning on the wipers while trying to put the latter in Drive.

This troper has the same problem, but with different vehicles (switching between a minivan and sedan). Oddly enough, her minivan is the one with the gearshift behind the wheel.

How about waving your key fob at your ''brother's'' house?

Going back from Japanese arcade controls to American ones. Suddenly, the stick is taller, has a bigger throw, and moving it along its edges feels too smooth. Also you're now standing up instead of sitting, which makes you hold the stick at a now-awkward position.

This troper tried to play some ''{{Quake}} Live'' after having played ''{{S4 League}}'' for a few weeks. Notes to self when playing QL:

Machineguns are weak.

There are no {{Critical Hit}}s.

Your melee attack does not cause you to charge around nor can you perform special jumping attacks.

This is first-person, not third-person.

My sister apparently thought that she could open doors that she needed keys to as long as she had the key, meaning that she thought that she didn't have to actually ''use'' the key, because of video games. I myself have tried pressing the R button to block or dodge in Kirby's Adventure after playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and tried holding the R1 button to run faster in Kingdom Hearts after playing Sly Cooper.

Playing Pac-Man on today's Google logo. Who doesn't have a strong muscle memory of how to play that?

Going from IWBTG to Mega Man X on an emulator...I'm still trying to teach myself that I cannot double jump in Mega Man X.

I have an odd, non-gaming-related example: I often briefly switch mousing hands and don't bother to reassign the mouse buttons, so I'm used to clicking with my middle finger when I mouse left-handed. When I intend to keep using my left hand there for a while, I remap the buttons and then find myself constantly trying to click with the wrong finger.

On any given day, I will drive both a left-hand drive manual transmission, and a right-hand drive automatic. At ''best'' this means making my stick shift car cry when I try to start it by hitting the brake and turning the key.

This troper started using the 'alt' button on his Windows 7 machine at home as the 'ctrl' button after working in a university research lab that uses Apple computers exclusively. It's not too bad, but it will take me a while to get used to both. Another time, I accidentally used the right-click as the scope button while playing Halo 2. On my machine, the right click is assigned to grenades for Halo 2, but I had spent the past month on Crysis, where the right click was assigned to scope mode. What was originally supposed to be an easy kill turned into a hilarious suicide.

Seriously, I get hit by this so much: when driving once, a shower hit, so I switched on the wipers in my car. I was driving another car a week later, and it rained again, so I went to switch on the wipers. In the other car, pushing the column ''down'' activates them (whereas the car I regularly drive requires that the column be pushed ''up''). Instead of clearing the windshield, I got a blast of wiper fluid, which made things worse.

This troper can screw herself up when switching between playing SecondLife and WorldOfWarcraft. I try to jump with the spacebar, log out by typing '/camp', or try to drag the camera around in SL, and I look for my camera-panning buttons in WoW. Not to mention I used to have a bit of trouble switching between the 4 different classes I have level 80s of, but I've gotten the hang of it now. However, the problem will probably pop up again when I roll my Warlock and Warrior in Cataclysm. Off the computer muscle memory, it took me a few days to stop trying to tuck my hands into the front pouch on my school uniform's sweatshirt once we got out for summer.

I got royally screwed by my guitar teacher, when he made me play Bach's prelude in D minor (BWM999), a piece that I already knew WITH COMPLETELY NEW FINGER POSITION.This is akin to trying to forget to eat with your hands and relearn it with your feet

One that many people who have reason to be armed can relate to: This Troper was in a cafe, talking to a Royal Marine (on leave). Because the cafe had no umbrella stand, there was a walking staff (OK, fine, ''my'' walking staff) propped up against a table. It fell over with a loud bang; both he and I half-turned, half-started to dive for cover, while reaching for weapons that weren't there. The kicker? ''I'' was reaching for a sword...

Same troper: I've also developed some idiosyncratic stances and gestures as a result of learning to manage a cloak in a crowd, as well as other anachronisms of dress. The most telling (but not most obvious) is my left hand automatically tries to rest on/control a sword hilt, making me look like a southpaw gunslinger from a SpaghettiWestern, while my right makes frequent "flicking" gestures either to my side or behind my back

This Troper was writing a rather long paper using [=LaTeX=]. Then he had to finish a piece of work he had started on [=OpenOffice=]. Cue him trying to use [=LaTeX=] commands on [=OpenOffice=].

Me too!

This troper has on several occasions managed to get [=LaTeX=] syntax and Wiki syntax mixed up. Needless to say, this gets very ''very'' frustrating.

The serverroom at the place i work has a special door handle rigged to a fire alarm. If you want to get out you just have to type in a security code an pull the door, not the handle. If you do pull the handle down, you can get out but there is an immediate fire alarm. Very annoying

Do not attempt to play Left4Dead and then ANY ResidentEvil game. Especially with a Wesker fan girl who threatens to throw you out if you grumble about the completely unintuitive controls. Goddammit, I should not have to come to a dead stop and then use two buttons to shoot.

When unable to find an object in real life, This Troper will often find herself standing motionless while trying to remember how to bring up the Search function. She is still waiting for the internet to catch up to her little habits...

This troper has a related habit. When reading printouts from webpages or anything else where certain selections of text are printed in a different color (especially blue), this troper will try to tap the blue text with his pen, perhaps expecting something to happen.

This troper used to only use the PS2 she shared with her sister to play Kingdom Hearts II, which uses one of the buttons to jump. When she switches to playing {{Tales of the Abyss}}, which doesn't have a jump command, she had a very difficult time adjusting.

This troper drives a Pontiac Grand Am. His wife drives a Ford Focus. On the Pontiac, the ignition is located in the dashboard, between the steering wheel and the stereo/AC controls. On his wife's car, the ignition is on the steering column. So, if you, accustomed to the Pontiac's interior, were to blindly try to stick your key into that spot on the Ford's dashboard? You'd end up putting the key directly into the ''DC electrical outlet''.

Isn't the Focus one of those cars with a reverse lockout ring, as well?

After watching Youtube videos for hours on end, this troper will wonder why in the world she can't pause a show while watching normal TV. Sometimes it gets even weirder: once she was listening to her father talk, and he said a funny line-and she wanted to go back a couple of seconds and listen to it again.

The same troper also hated switching from TwilightPrincess on the Wii to TwilightPrincess on the GameCube (She was playing her main game on the Wii, and helping a friend out on the GameCube). Not only are the controls different, but everything is flipped--so instead of going through the door on the left side of the room, she'll go through the door on the right side.

This troper has played enough Dwarf Fortress that he will try to scroll more quickly in documents by holding down the shift key.

This troper set up her laptop so that her left mouse key works as a right mouse key and vice versa since the right mouse key no longer works. It takes a few moments for me to remember that most computers use the right mouse button when I'm not using the laptop. Another thing is that this laptop no longer has a working comma and period key so she must copy/paste in order to use those punctuation marks. She will find herself doing so even if she's on a keyboard where those keys work. Luckily this troper is getting a new laptop soon...

This troper once went from playing {{Xenosaga}} 2 (which uses the the circle, square, and triangle button to attack in battle, while the circle button ''selects'' on the menu) to playing {{Persona 3}}, where the X button selects and the circle cancels in the field, while, in battle, the square button allows you to skip your turn, and the triangle turns on "Rush", a tactic that has everyone automatically attack with their weapons. Needless to say, she screwed up ''a lot'' of battles in Persona.

This troper saw a Police Officer on patrol casually wander in his general direction. He must've been playing too much Hitman, because his thumbs were reaching for those friggen buttons like mad.

When This Troper was a toddler, her uncle and his best friend liked to take her places in their pick-up truck. (Girls would come up to them to say "Aw, what a cute baby!" and they might get a date for the weekend.) Since this was the "good ole days" before seat belt laws and car seats, I would often stand in the seat between them and they'd grab me whenever they came to a stop. One day, they happened to have a young lady sitting in the seat I was usually in....

This troper recently got fed up with how electric razors take such a long time to shave his face and still leave about 5-10% of his beard completely unharmed. He recently started using blade razors for the first time, only for his face to come out as a raw, bleeding mass of flesh ''every single time'' because he just cannot stop himself from pressing as hard as he used to. He also can't go back to electric because shaving this way is so much quicker.

This Troper had two cases of this trope

I had been using using programs such as GIMP and Inkscape which uses middle click + drag to pan around the image I'm editing. When I use Photoshop, I repeatedly middle click and drag the image to no avail

The second case involves me using Blender 3D, which uses shift-middle click + drag. After using Blender for a while, I always mistakenly use shift-middle click + drag in Inkscape which is the actually zoom function. AndThatsTerrible!

Some time ago, I was unable to shoot someone in ANY FPS with a sniper rifle. Dammit, I done everything right! No wind... And I aimed upward to compensate for gravity... Except I wasn't playing Sniper Elite. And I always shot any gard three times from point blank range in Splinter Cell.

When I play any RTS with a commands pannel that I can activate with hotkeys, I always use (with an AZERTY keyboard): AZERQSDFWXCV, according to the position of the button in the interface. But they use the first letter from the command. Unlike Blitzkrieg.

Don't try to play SuperSmashBros after playing Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. The latter has a system based on "grazing" through bullets by pressing either the dash or double tap left/right. So, imagine me, confused why didn't Pikachu grazed through Fox Lasers...

In any fighting game, I usually ajust the shoulder buttons for quick combos. And example would be Soul Calibur III: L2:A+B L1:A+K R1:B+K R2:A+G. When I went to go play tournament style at this one place, I got owned because I wasn't using my should button style. Hell, THEY DISABLED THE SHOULDER BUTTONS! I managed to get fifth, but I was still pissed because the first round I lost was because I couldn't quick grab.

When I use Seamonkey instead of Firefox, I always think that clicking the tab at the end of the tab bar will bring up a new tab, like it does if Firefox. But in Seamonkey, the same button CLOSES the current tab. I think I'm opening a new tab, and i just hosed whatever i was reading before. Insert trope name here.

Hello. I've been on TV Tropes for a four-hour session, because I attempted to go to Google Translate and instead of typing 'translate.google.com', I typed 'tvtropes.org', and hit Enter. Aaaaugh.

This troper spent quite a bit of time in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep viciously Strike Raiding the nearest inanimate object when she only wanted to save her game. Why? Because in [=KH2=] and [=Re:CoM=], whenever green suddenly appears on your Command Menu or on the field, you push Triangle and something (usually) good happens. And in BBS, the commands such as save, examine, etc. are in green, but you use X for them. Pushing Triangle just uses a Deck Command.

Same game, different troper with a different problem. Switching between the story modes makes this troper forget than the three characters don't all have the same abilities, such as gliding or certain dodge moves. It was particularly frustrating finishing one storyline and starting another with a different character with none of the moves or abilities the other did (or not yet anyway).

This troper has a terrible habit of wanting to, and more often then not, pitching objects when he holds them in the palm of his hand. Also, when needing to throw things, I instinctively throw them like a baseball.

SlyCooper has a good control scheme that's intuitive - mainly because it's so similar to other platformers. Unless you've recently played one of the sequels, in which case you ''will'' find yourself cycling through special moves instead of, you know, actually ''doing'' anything.

Anytime I screw up in Real Life with my left hand on a flat surface, it will slide down in a futile attempt to press ctrl+z.

This troper has repeatedly gotten immensele frustrated due to his fondness of two specific games: Vampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlnes and Jedi Academy. Their quicksave and quickload keys are reversed, which, when alternating between them to often leads to horrible moments after particularly tough battles of "phew, that was insane, gotta save... NOOOOOO".

In vi I keep typing Ctrl-x Ctrl-c, and in Emacs I keep typing :wq!

This troper taught himself to read and, by extension spell off of books that were either '''a)''' Published and/or printed in the British Isles (I have british copies of the first five ''HarryPotter'' books) or '''b)''' were printed and/or published in Canada. (And the library had ''Adventures Of Tintin'' books that were basically the european english version) So naturally they have the British and Canadian spellings, also when we were learning how to type in schools, I was already good at it but the software was basically alternating between English and British spellings, probably so we wouldn't rely on muscle memory to type or something, but I still developed it anyways. Also, some games like ''RuneScape'' are European. So naturally, I have a tendency to use some British and Canadian spellings, so even in my creative writing class I was asked why I had stuff like "Colour", "Glamour", "theatre", "Dialogue" (This one is often given a pass; I notice), or "Offence/Defence" in my stories and my response is pretty much DamnYouMuscleMemory.

In FinalFantasyII through to FinalFantasyV, casting a spell on a group of allies/enemies was done by pushing the D-pad left or right, depending on who you're casting on. FinalFantasyVI changed it so that you have to push the R Button to group cast, leading to this troper believing that group-casting was removed from the game altogether.

This troper just upgraded from an second-gen iPod touch (which he's had for two years) to a fourth-gen model. It's just similar enough in design that he hasn't really gotten the hang of the sleep button being on the opposite side and he keeps putting his index finger over the camera on the back; The old model had a plastic pad in the exact same spot that he used to idly scratch when holding the iPod.

I do this a lot, especially with writing, as I sometimes automatically write something if another word i use more often is spelled using the first few letters, I have also been known to write my username and password (for forums and stuff) instead of name and date on school work. Also I find myself looking for the undo button in real life when ive done something.

Left Trigger? The hell is that? ''Oh'' you mean L2!

Explanation: I grew up on goddamn Sony Playstation; I will ''never'' make a full transition to "Trigger" and "Bumper."

Also: WHY THE HELL IS GRENADE ON 'BACK' BUTTON IN MASS EFFECT?! WHAT KIND OF RETARDED CRAP IS THAT?! *pause* AND WHAT THE HELL IS THE 'BACK' BUTTON ANYWAYS?!

In ''MarioKart Wii'', A is the accelerator, Right Shoulder is dirft, and Left Shoulder uses items (using the Gamecube controller). In ''Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing'' on the Xbox 360, Right Trigger is the accelerator, Left Trigger is drift, and A uses items. Going from the latter to the former resulted in a lot of "WHY AM I NOT MOVING?"

Any ''TeamFortress2'' player, when watching a video of said game, will move their mouse around to try and watch their back - when it's not even them.

This Troper plays both Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead 2. He also has to keep reminding himself that you cannot look down your weapon sights in ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 2'' and can't melee with the butt of your gun while expolring the wasteland.

I went from Fallout 3 to Call Of Duty: Black Ops. I kept instinctivly trying to use VATS. To make it worse, I decided to go back to trying to beat Executive Order on veteran (I was stuck partway through when I stopped before).

This troper, whenever he tries to type Kagami (as in Kagami Hiiragi), ends up typing Kagamine instead.

This Troper once spent an afternoon watching his brother play ''MetroidPrime'' with some friends. It was his first ''Metroid'' game, so he constantly confused the "shoot" and "jump" buttons. In an effort to help, we all chanted "B is jump" every time he jumped. It never really got old.

I've been recently Googling a lot of minecraft stuff. When I was trying to get to Tvtropes I accidentally typed in Tvcraft...

This troper has quite a few ones:

He has a netbook which don't have the '?' and the '/' keys, you need to press AltGR + Q and AltGR + W respectively to get them. Even when he uses his laptop-turned-desktop with external keyboard/mouse, he keeps using those keys for '?' and '/'.

He uses an HP calculator in RPN-mode for most of his university work, and gets baffled whenever he has to use a non-RPN calculator. Similarly, anybody trying to use his calculator gives up after a while.

Most Linux desktop environments use Alt-F2 as the "Run" dialog. Windows uses Win+R. Do the math. Happens to him whenever using Windows. Also, trying to switch virtual desktops (it's a shame that Windows doesn't have this feature by default).

Wait, "jump" is ''what?'' It's ''L1?!'' That makes no sense, HalfLife! And '''slow down''' already, Gordon! God, you'd think he'd never heard of walking!

This is the HalfLife PS2 port, by the way.

Just recently I have come to find out that from the right side of the screen, I am barely able to execute a {{Shoryuken}} command in StreetFighterIV and MarvelVsCapcom2 after years of playing other games, let alone non-Capcom fighters (I often find myself accidentally jumping forward/backward). With MarvelVSCapcom3 just around the corner, I seriously hope that this isn't a bad sign.

Both the Windows command prompt and the Unix ''bash'' shell offer the ability to run a "for" loop on a bunch of files. The syntax is ever-so-slightly different between the two; Windows adds an extra percent sign and parentheses, while Unix throws in some semicolons instead. This troper uses both [=OSes=]... and always screws it up one way or the other.

This troper downloaded the demo of the WiiWare game And Yet It Moves; I spent the entire demo pressing A to (attempt to) jump. (I've deleted the demo--mostly because of this trope--but I think Z was actually the jump button. The A button for AYIM "froze" the scene and allowed you to "rotate" the scenery by tilting the Wiimote.) On a similar note, this troper also downloaded the demo of CaveStory, and kept trying to go into doors by pressing Up on the Wiimote's control pad (doors are entered by pressing down in that game). Finally, the laptop that this troper got for Christmas doesn't have a port I can put my external mouse into (it's not a USB mouse), but I keep reaching over for said mouse anyway when I want to move the cursor/scroll down/what have you. Also, the Fn and Ctrl keys are switched around from where they were on my last laptop, and the Delete key is ''two keys over to the left'', and Pg Dn is on this laptop where the Delete key was on my last one.

Thanks to a recent AxisPowersHetalia online event that required the refreshing of the page several times, this troper hit F5 inside of Print Screen like she intended when wanting to take a screenshot on the front page of the website.

When writing someone's name, I attempt to tab-complete it, even if I am using pencil and paper. It's a habit I have picked up from countless hours on IRC.

This trope doesn't just apply to keyboard shortcuts. It also applies to file names when switching from DOS to Windows 95 and later. This Troper ran afoul of TheProblemWithPenIsland during the transition from DOS-style naming of files to full use of long file names. Why? Well, one stage in the transition is stopping abbreviation of words, but still not using spaces. Cue an unexpected snarky remark from the recipient when sending a PNG file of a screenshot from Series/DoctorWho as reference material to an artist when the file was named "doctorwhoref.png".

This troper plays lots and lots of {{Role Playing Game}}s. Most [=RPGs=] have the Menu button mapped to the Triangle/X buttons depending on the console by default (in this case, PlayStation and Nintendo consoles). Many ShinMegamiTensei games tend to screw me up by mapping the Menu button to the Square/Y button, and even the ones that DO use the default button also screws me up! Oddly enough, games that use the Start button as the menu (ie. every Kingdom Hearts game, GBA [=RPGs=]) don't have the muscle memory effect on me.

This troper plays a fair amount of FPS games, mainly ModernWarfare2 and Black Ops. Recently, he just tried out Bad Company 2 on an internet cafe computer. And what was 'use' in the former two games is 'chuck grenade' in Bad Company 2. Whenever he tries to access a supply crate in BC2, he chucks a grenade before he gets it right. x.x

This troper uses Windows for gaming and Mac for everything else. Annoyance ensues when he wants to look something up on the Internet during a gaming session and starts hitting Command-based hotkeys. On another note, switching from Chris to Sheva was quite disorienting at first. You would think that a little thing like moving from the left side of the screen to the right wouldn't be a problem. You would be wrong.

When playing Dead Space 2, this troper remembers what frustrated him most in the original. "Kinesis" and "use medkit" are the exact same button, the former only requires the player to be aiming to activate. However, when a swarm of Necromorphs are suddenly bearing down on him, panicked button mashing ensues. This often leads to three or four medkits activating while his frantic brain attempts to figure out why spikes aren't flying. He will also find himself accidentally hitting B during perfectly calm moments, using up an incredibly rare and expensive large medkit to heal a sliver of missing health. B also happens to be "melee" in Reach. If a Necromorph gets too close for comfort, I heal instead of beating it back.

Also, back before the computer containing all of his Oblivion data was consumed by a virus (days of game time lost, sadface), he used to play it for long periods of time. Shift was "block" and tab was "open inventory". Shift-tab, however, minimized the game. He would be locked into combat with a final boss for a quest (mods FTW), realize his health is dangerously low, and open up the inventory to heal. He would often do this while blocking an imminent attack. Cue game freezing and minimizing, a process that took at least five minutes.

This troper has experience with this trope taking place in ''one game''. Capcom has been running a MarvelVsCapcom3 event across the country to hype the game up, and one of the biggest things they show is an arcade cabinet - really a pair or hard-wired sticks with a hidden PS3. The problem is that for some reason, the buttons had a habit of changing between matches. What was initially Light/Medium/Launcher/Heavy became Medium/Heavy/Light/Launcher. Not only that, but sometimes one of the assist buttons would turn into a dash button instead. Enter this troper. Generally pretty good at fighting games, went for like a 30-game streak on the machine. Suddenly, the buttons change, my brain doesn't get the message fast enough, and I'm off after one game. GODDAMN MUSCLE MEMORY.

I have this issue with ''{{Blood}}''. I use the default binds for controlling, which gives me issues when I need to crouch, because Blood is the only non-CallOfDuty FPS I have where crouch is the C key. Oddly, I don't have the same issue with alt-fire being on middle mouse instead of right mouse, but it's probably because that's the same case in KillingFloor (which has the nice effect of making both games' double-barreled shotguns work the same way).

Also I'm having this problem now that I'm trying to get back into ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''. My original Gamecube controller is broken, my wireless one sucks, and I can''not'' play the game effectively with just the Wiimote or it plus Nunchuck, so I'm pretty much stuck with the Classic Controller, which puts attack on the rightmost face button, special on the bottom, and quick-grab on those tiny z buttons at the very top of the controller. Up until I reconfigure the controls so special is left, attack is bottom, and quick-grab is just R, because that is the exact moment my brain decides I actually became used to the default setup for the Classic Controller. Cue me jumping when I want to smack people and grabbing at the air when I'm trying to block or dodge. And that's not even getting into how sensitive the controller's analog sticks are compared to, say, the Dualshock 2 I'm used to.

Me again, and once again ''Killing Floor'' related: after buying the game a year ago and always playing at pings averaging at least 100, I noticed when I played on a LAN server with my brother the other day that I could barely keep him healed from long range, because the medication dart from the [=MP7=] was now actually hitscan like it's supposed to be; I kept compensating for lag that wasn't there. This was especially troublesome because he was playing Berserker and frequently required healing. Eventually I switched to Sharpshooter and just shot things dead before they could surround either of us.

{{Prototype}} uses Shift for running and gliding and Space for jumping. BatmanArkhamAsylum uses Space for running and gliding, jumping is largely automatic, and Shift is only used for certain combo attacks. Switching between the two is...awkward.

This Troper learned the hard way that switching the controls around in certain emulators will end up screwing you over, even if they are better suited to the game you're pirating/playing.

This Troper had the issue while still playing both Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk simultaneously: He'd often get the locations of the various landmarks mixed up. It's made even worse if one or more of the same neighbors are also living in both towns at the same time.

In WoW, the achievements screen is mapped to Y by default. For Rift, I'm stuck with H for now. Not that I give a hard damn about it as I'd rather play a game that doesn't have cheevos, but I occasionally check the achievements screen every so often (rather than opening up the raid screen as the Y key does).

Hello. This troper (Frostsabre) again with another real life example. My A.P. Euro classmate would ask so many questions with the teacher on tests (example being "on number 24, what do you mean by substantial?") that he referred to our math (precalculus) teacher as (Mr [insert history teacher's name]) when he asked him a question. The reply? "I don't think he has heard that question."

My car (a Chevy Cobalt LT) has power steering. A few years ago said power steering went out (which was a common problem, mine just did it before it was popular). As the main page says, it's much harder to steer with no power steering after so long with it.

When I was learning to drive, my teacher cited that very fact as the reason why he used a non-power steering car for at least the first few lessons.

When I took it in to get it fixed my parents let me use the van I drove in high school. My Cobalt's shifter is by the center console. The van's shifter is by the steering wheel. Also, the van is (obviously) bigger than the car and thus drives differently.

This troper thinks Ctrl+C is "copy". It certainly isn't on emacs. He must be the only CS-related person who doesn't want to marry Linux.

This troper once walked into a dark room, and instinctively reached for his F key (the flashlight button in Half-Life). The thing is- it wasn't a game, there was no F key, and I felt like an idiot afterwards.

When I switch between my PC Laptop (Dell Inspiron 1500, I think) and A. Anyone else's different-model PC; or 2. My Dad's Mac, I tend to push the wrong buttons (ctrl+c does nothing on a Mac) or miss buttons. There's also the stupid decision Dell made to switch the shortcut buttons and the "F#" buttons, resulting in having to push the "Fn" key when I'm playing an emulator and need to quick-save with "Shift+F1."

As well, when switching between Dissidia and KingdomHearts: BirthBySleep, I start screwing up because in Dissidia, I use the D-Pad to move, and in BBS, the D-Pad moves the Command Menu. It also works out inversely, as the Analog Nub moves the characters in BBS, while, with my preferred configuration, the Analog Nub moves the camera in Dissidia. Cue me just starting a battle against a high-level monster and I'm moving the camera while getting killed instead of running away.

Tip: When going back to play one's old PS2 platformers, make sure you stay within one series at a time and play something different during the transition... and if you're going to replay JakAndDaxter, RatchetAndClank and {{Psychonauts}}, do ''not'' play them in that order. It's like doing trying to do English homework, then Japanese, and English again.

I never learned how to touch-type; I've simply used the hunt-and-peck method for so long that I can rely on muscle memory without needing to keep my fingers on the home row. The trouble is, muscle memory remembers more than just where the keys are; it remembers what movements to make for particular words, and has a tendency to go on autopilot once I've begun typing a word. I therefore trend to come lacrosse is a bit strange when I don't have time to spell-cheque.

I often surf TVTropes on my iPad. The problem with that is that spoilers don't show up when highlighted. I got around that by copying a spoiler I wanted to read, pasting it into the Note app, reading it, then deleting it. Guess what happens when I paste something into a note I want to keep...

When I got the Jump Ultimate Stars game on the DS, it took me a while to get the controls down, as A=jump, and B/Y= attacks, and the down button in the D-pad was guard. Soon I got the hang of it, but while playing Super Smash Brothers with my friends, I realized just how much I screwed myself over when I kept pressing A to jump back up the ledge and pressing down to shield.

This troper is a small-boat sailor and an instructor at a sailing camp. When she gets in the car to go home she has to think very carefully about turns, because ''the car wheel is not a tiller''.

I used to play a lot of StarWarsBattlefront before switching to ModernWarfare 2. So a lot of the sniper-type missions end up with me pressing the grenade button (RB on the Xbox 360), thinking I'm firing (R1 on the PS2, same position as RB on the Xbox), and dying in a hail of Russian gunfire.

Sudden motion tends to trigger a block reflex in this troper. Helpful for fighting games? Yes. Helpful in RealLife? It's a bit more mixed... the kicker is that I don't know how I developed that reaction. Also, I happen to know a DoubleSubversion of this: I ctrl-S pretty much every time I finish a sentence in a text editor out of habit. Then I open Gmail and type a relatively long email (still only a few lines). Hit ctrl-S out of muscle memory. The subversion is that this shortcut actually ''does'' let you save in Gmail. The double-subversion is that you almost never need to save an email anyway since you almost always type them in one sitting. Surprisingly, I don't do this on any other site...

This troper, when putting aside a magazine yet still holding it, often moves his hand over it so it doesn't go into "screensaver mode".

This troper just experienced one while trying to play the classic Movie tie-in game TheLionKing. He has always played the Genesis version of the game, of which the "roar" button is A, which is the furthest left button on the gamepad. He just played the SNES version, and on that version, "roar" is also mapped to A, which unfortunately happens to be the rightmost button. Also on the Genesis version is that the "jump" button is mapped to C, which happens to be the rightmost button. On the SNES version, however, the "jump" button is mapped to B, which happens to be the "middle" button. HilarityEnsues.

This is the main reason This Troper has only played both KingdomHearts and JakAndDaxter on the same day once.

This troper has one from''zOMG!'': she has two different accounts with different ring sets.in a different order. For example, the healing ring on one account is in slot #6, while the other one has an attack or buff ring there, resulting in either useless buffs or accidental attempts at self-injury when trying to heal. She also has a non-game example: switching from [=OpenOffice=] (on her computer) to Word (on school computers). "Alt-E-P... what the huh are you doing?" Also, she once had to work with a keyboard that had the little nub thingy not on the F and J keys, but on D and J. Got a little annoying.

This troper has this problem when walking to classes in high school. Her schedule is memorized by the way she walks across campus to each class. The good part about that is that she can often zone out and not realize where she's walking, and end up at her next class while also forgetting just ''what'' that class was. The bad part is that if she has to go to the same place in one day twice (our school's laid out by section), she will repeat the previous step and end up in Science again instead of going towards the Math room like she was supposed to, again without thinking of just what room it's ''supposed'' to be. Another side effect of this is that whenever parent-teacher conferences come around, she has no clue what room number the classrooms are.

This troper has recently started playing Kingdom Hearts. Thing is, she played 358/2 Days before (well, about half of it, before her save file went poof), and her first thought when playing the PS2 game was: "why did they have to swap the buttons?". Another example is trying to use English words in a conversation in Polish (troper's native language), as she usually spends most of the time reading/typing English, and actual real-life conversations are rare.