How long did it take you to get to 200 wpm with steno?
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E D
Jun 21, 2016, 8:28:54 PM6/21/16
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Im just wondering out of curiosity because I want to reach 200 wpm and I will be practicing an hour every day at least.
Mirabai Knight
Jun 21, 2016, 9:47:25 PM6/21/16
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Took me about a year to get to 200.
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> Im just wondering out of curiosity because I want to reach 200 wpm and I
> will be practicing an hour every day at least.
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:28 PM, E D <nrstil...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> will be practicing an hour every day at least.
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Joshua Taylor
Jun 21, 2016, 9:48:24 PM6/21/16
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You were probably practicing way more than 1 hour per day, though, right?
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Mirabai Knight
Jun 21, 2016, 9:55:11 PM6/21/16
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Yeah, I was doing about 6 hours a week of speed drilling in steno
school, plus 35 hours a week transcribing at work (from 160 WPM
onward), plus around 5 to 10 extra hours of practice on evenings and
weekends.
school, plus 35 hours a week transcribing at work (from 160 WPM
onward), plus around 5 to 10 extra hours of practice on evenings and
weekends.
E D
Jun 21, 2016, 11:00:03 PM6/21/16
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So around 40 hours a week you practice? I can probably get in quite a bit of time in (I work from home). So once I learn the basics, I can almost go full time on it. However, I can't go full time until I learn the basics.
Gere Mia
Jul 7, 2016, 5:43:21 PM7/7/16
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How long until 100 WPM?
Mirabai Knight
Jul 8, 2016, 7:11:32 PM7/8/16
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About six months, I think?
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Achim Siebert
Jul 9, 2016, 5:32:08 AM7/9/16
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It took a year for me to hit 100 the first time in a 100 word text without punctuation. But then I'm only exercising for a quarter or half an hour a day, maybe 2 hours on weekends. So I think with more exercise half a year would be a good estimation. It seems to also depend a lot on innate dexterity, some people may just be made for it.
As a mere hobbyist I'm more than content with my progress.
As a mere hobbyist I'm more than content with my progress.
David Friedman
Jul 12, 2016, 9:37:18 PM7/12/16
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Mirabai Knight wrote on July 8, 2016:
About six months, I think?
According to the chart it was about 80 days to get to 100 WPM.
http://stenoknight.com/StenoSchool.html
David Friedman
Mirabai Knight
Jul 12, 2016, 9:47:31 PM7/12/16
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Yes, but that was only after they let us start taking speed tests, after 6 months of theory. So I guess it was 6 months + 80 days. But I think if we had spent less time on theory and had started speed tests sooner, I would have advanced faster. We were only allowed to take two tests per week, so even if I had the speed in general, one bad take would keep me from moving forward.
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David Friedman
Jul 12, 2016, 11:27:20 PM7/12/16
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Yes, but that was only after they let us start taking speed tests, after 6 months of theory. So I guess it was 6 months + 80 days. But I think if we had spent less time on theory and had started speed tests sooner, I would have advanced faster. We were only allowed to take two tests per week, so even if I had the speed in general, one bad take would keep me from moving forward.
Oh okay, I didn't notice that it said six months of theory before that.
So the way the chart is set up there were additional tests between the (110 Lit WPM, 80 day) mark and the (120 Lit WPM, 120 day) mark but as they were below the 110 WPM they aren't on the chart.
David Friedman
David Friedman
Jul 12, 2016, 11:37:43 PM7/12/16
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I wonder also how adjustment is made for accuracy.
David Friedman
Mirabai Knight
Jul 12, 2016, 11:40:23 PM7/12/16
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Passing tests were at or above 95% accuracy.
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David Friedman
Jul 13, 2016, 12:24:01 AM7/13/16
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Alright, thanks for clarifying that.
So then when it says in the wiki:
http://stenoknight.com/wiki/FAQ#What_is_stenography.3F
"In the first semester of steno school, nearly all students learn to exceed 100 words per minute."
would that be basically after a student has learned theory?
Sort of maybe around the 1 year period that Achim mentioned.
I would think also that it could vary a fair amount with the kind of text.
I downloaded the software at the end of February 2016 and have been practicing periodically, but with no particular fixed schedule. I've been able to get to 100 WPM as long as the text is simple and short enough (say a snippet from the lyrics of a song), but for other contexts it could be a lot slower maybe say 30 WPM.
For the children's videos I was able to go faster.
Around 70 WPM for the Three Billy Goats, and about 40 WPM - 50 WPM on Aladdin after practicing a number of times.
http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Practice#Conventional_Books.2FTexts
This was using a local version of the Stenomatic 9000 where it was necessary to get every word before advancing. I took out of the name of the magician for the Aladdin one and didn't worry about punctuation.
So I think speed can vary over the kind of text and other aspects of the test.
As you said in that article steno students tended to do better on jury charge tests than on Lits although as you weren't as interested in being a court reporter those were just as hard.
"It'll do me no good to learn briefs for every variation of "at the time of the accident" if I'm not able to stroke out "in the prime of the Occident" during a history class. Because of this my jury charge tests, which everybody else seemed to fly through, were every bit as hard as my lits. But I knew if I had time to write "the preponderance of the evidence" in four strokes rather than one and could still catch what came next I was doing all right. I didn't just want to pass tests at any cost; I used the tests to figure out my upper speed limits with different sorts of material. "
David Friedman
So then when it says in the wiki:
http://stenoknight.com/wiki/FAQ#What_is_stenography.3F
"In the first semester of steno school, nearly all students learn to exceed 100 words per minute."
would that be basically after a student has learned theory?
Sort of maybe around the 1 year period that Achim mentioned.
I would think also that it could vary a fair amount with the kind of text.
I downloaded the software at the end of February 2016 and have been practicing periodically, but with no particular fixed schedule. I've been able to get to 100 WPM as long as the text is simple and short enough (say a snippet from the lyrics of a song), but for other contexts it could be a lot slower maybe say 30 WPM.
For the children's videos I was able to go faster.
Around 70 WPM for the Three Billy Goats, and about 40 WPM - 50 WPM on Aladdin after practicing a number of times.
http://stenoknight.com/wiki/Practice#Conventional_Books.2FTexts
This was using a local version of the Stenomatic 9000 where it was necessary to get every word before advancing. I took out of the name of the magician for the Aladdin one and didn't worry about punctuation.
So I think speed can vary over the kind of text and other aspects of the test.
As you said in that article steno students tended to do better on jury charge tests than on Lits although as you weren't as interested in being a court reporter those were just as hard.
"It'll do me no good to learn briefs for every variation of "at the time of the accident" if I'm not able to stroke out "in the prime of the Occident" during a history class. Because of this my jury charge tests, which everybody else seemed to fly through, were every bit as hard as my lits. But I knew if I had time to write "the preponderance of the evidence" in four strokes rather than one and could still catch what came next I was doing all right. I didn't just want to pass tests at any cost; I used the tests to figure out my upper speed limits with different sorts of material. "
David Friedman
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