I touch type reasonably fast. I seem to have muscle memory for all kinds of words so in my brain it seems like I really type full words at a time rather than individual characters. Just now I was typing an email when a dialog box from an Adobe Acrobat update took focus. I was in the middle of typing and probably typed out at least four or five letters before my brain acknowledged the dialog box, which subsequently disappeared because of one of the keys I had pressed. I don't know if I accepted or rejected or made some other decision. Does this happen to you? Is it a widespread usability problem / failure that we just don't talk about?

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