If court stenographers type so efficiently, why hasn’t that become a more standard way of typing?
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Wow, I never thought I’d be so old as it say this but on the off chance you are young and have never heard of [Shorthand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand), what a stenographer does on the machine is very similar to what someone taking shorthand does in writing. Everyone has their own foibles & quirks in shorthand and therefore there is no full standard from one person to the next. Look at the shorthand examples on the link and you’ll have a good understanding why a stenographer is also not something that can easily be standardized to drone-like efficiency.
In the “good old days”, nearly every female took shorthand in high school in the USA because that was so common a needed job skill. Through about the late 70’s you included that skill on your resume to impress potential employers.
But there is a more efficient way of typing that YOU can do with a few clicks to order the high-tech revised keyboard: [Datahand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand)_ is a keyboard style that uses 5 fingers and your palm to enter keystrokes in binary rather than having a separate key for each letter and symbol. You hit up to 6 buttons at one time with that style entry system and barely move at all. They take a while to learn but once proficient, apparently one can type like lightning. I couldn’t find a current commercial offering but every couple of years , some tech company decides that it will be the wave of the future and sells a new version (at least for the last 40 years when I was paying attention). Someone is still selling them somewhere…
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