![]() Plover – open-sourced Steno for the masses ![]() You can use a predefined or create your own custom dictionary of shortcuts to type even faster for commonly used words, e.g, O-T-P-F > Occupational Therapy Practice Framework.So this eliminates the time and effort used when entering spaces with the spacebar. A similar thing happens with steno when you type a word. When a word is typed, it automatically inserts a space in anticipation of the next word. If you have used SWIPE gesture typing, it is kind of like that, or autocomplete on mobile devices. So it is much faster overall if you make mistakes too. With a stenotype, you just press the asterisk, *, with either hand and it deletes the previous word. When you make a mistake, e.g., such as wanting to delete an entire word because you change your mind and want to use another one instead (not necessarily a typo), you have to hold down backspace on a QWERTY.Multiple keys can be pressed simultaneously (like chords on a piano) to type out words even faster, 2 for most fingers, and 4 for right the pinky (at least that’s how I understand it).Instead of all 26 letters as keys, there are only 22 on a stenograph.Even playing the piano involves more movement as you move up and down the scales (I don’t know how to play the piano, but that’s what it looks like you need to do). In other words, the fingers also do not need to expend as much physical effort due to moving around and can pretty much stay in place in their original position.This saves the number of keys needed, and therefore, the need for your fingers to potentially need to cover more keyboard real estate. Example: to type cat, you would enter K-A-T on a steno keyboard (instead of needing a key for the “C” in cat).It uses a phonetic system for typing out words, instead of typing them out literally every letter by hand.How Steno keyboarding works and why it is awesome If this theory is true, this means that QWERTY was not really designed to type fast, as commonly used letters in the English language are actually off the home row and require your fingers to travel (thus slowing down potential typing speed compared to it belonging on the home row). One theory for the QWERTY keyboard layout was due to a need for a system to prevent the mechanical lock-up of the strikers due to the close succession of adjacent often used keys that were high on the Bigram Frequency of usage? In other words, the QWERTY layout was used to avoid hardware issues and the keys physically getting stuck. The steno keyboard layout (in Blue), overlaid on a traditional QWERTY keyboard (Black). Turns out, they use an entirely different keyboard layout, like how the DVORAK keyboard layout is different than QWERTY. But I wanted to know what gave stenographers the advantage. While I imagine that I should theoretically type faster than on the MacBook Air’s keyboard, it is not likely to be close to that 180wpm of the professionals. I also have a mechanical keyboard that I rarely use because I primarily work on my laptop for its portability. While most would consider that moderately fast, there are many keyboard enthusiasts that type way faster on QWERTY on hardware such as mechanical keyboards. I just clocked under 100wpm at 99wpm on TypeRacer on a MacBook Air. I don’t know about you, but that is F-A-S-T! According to, the average typing speed is 40wpm. Archived from the original on March 10, 2006. Some stenographers can reach 300 words per minute.” “Closed Captioning Web”. “In order to pass the United States Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the categories of literary, jury charge, and testimony, respectively. Just how fast can court reporters and live closed-captioning transcribers type? I wondered to myself, how do these people type so fast? This was my first time reading a court hearing which was transcribed by a court reporter (also known as a stenographer). Not much has been known about the details of the conservatorship of Britney Spears leading up to the court testimony on Jthat was published online. During my research, I had to separate rumors from opinions from facts. I am in the process of publishing a post about Britney Spears and my thoughts on her situation from an occupational therapy perspective. I am talking about stenography and Plover for a replacement to QWERTY keyboard typing. This time it involves virtually no investment but a lot of time, dedication, and practice, but the benefits are potentially well worth the effort. I went down a deep rabbit hole and am participating in a new occupation.
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