I saw some videos and still can’t understand, a lady just type like 5 buttons ans a whole phrase comes out on the screen. Also doesnt make sense at all what I see from the stenographer screen, it is like random letters no in the same line.
EDIT: Im impressed by how complex and interesting stenography is! Thank you for the replies and also thank you very much for the Awards! 🙂
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There seems to be a lot of arguments about whether a steno machine is *really* faster than a regular keyboard.
Here are a couple of facts:
1. Professional typists average between 65 and 75 words per minute. The record is 216 (in 1946!), and the fastest current typist reached 212, using a Dvorak simplified keyboard.
2. To become licensed as a court reporter, you have to reach 180, 200, and 225 words per minute in three different categories. It’s not uncommon for experienced court reporters to reach 300, and the official record for American English is 375. For comparison, the average person *speaks* between 125 and 150 words per minute.
Yes, it’s much faster. How? They have keys for several letters, but they don’t usually hit just one letter at a time. They’ll hit several at a time, and the combination could mean a letter, a common word, or even a punctuation mark. It doesn’t take any more time to hit several keys at once, and by inventing their own shortcuts for common words and phrases, they can save a lot of time.
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