Learning steno

The entire philosophy of stenography is fundamentally different from typing; it is phonetic and based on situational awareness of each phonetic chunk in the sentence as a whole. The stenography translator capitalizes sentences for you.

It's said that it takes six months to a year of practice to get to speed, but that speed is truly impressive. Words per minute on a QWERTY keyboard top out at around 120; on Dvorak, around 140. Voice to speech runs at about 180 wpm. Stenography permits the entry of English text at speeds between 240 and 300 words per minute!

So. You learn with:

• The Practice page on the Wiki
• Mirabai's steno lesson series (still short)
• Using Fly, if you're on Linux, and God willing, soon if you're on Windows
• Stenotypy, published in 1915. Things have, in fact, changed a lot since then.
• Hover Plover games, once they're written.