You’re Much More Likely to Be Wrong When Composing Late at Night.
Whether it’s emailing or working on a novel, early in the morning or late at night, many people finally start nibbling at their keyboard. But if you can help, skip late-night classes and get rid of annoying mistakes and editing.
Early writers are right, according to data compiled by Grammarly , a free spelling and grammar checker . Grammarly analyzed over 1 billion writing errors that were corrected by the tool, as well as the time of their occurrence. They found that those who wrote early in the morning (4:00 am to 8:00 am) made far fewer spelling, grammatical and punctuation errors than those who wrote late at night (10:00 pm to 2:00 am). They also found that writers made the fewest mistakes in the afternoons, from 1pm to 5pm. In addition, their data shows that misspelled words are the most common misspellings when writing emails, accounting for over half of all email errors.
If you are going to write something, you can put it off until the morning when your mind is refreshed and ready to focus. If you’re more of an owl and enjoy writing at night, at least consider doing another proofreading cycle the next morning or afternoon. You can check all the data in the picture below.
Writing Showdown: Early Bird vs. Night Owl | Grammar blog