westward comments on Group Rationality Diary, December 16-31 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ThrustVectoring 20 December 2013 04:27:12AM *  5 points [-]

I am learning to use stenographic typing, and I have made enough progress to type up this post. Slowly. You have no clue how long this is taking. But I can write, slowly, and that is enough to make it easier to learn more and to practice more.

I hope to get much, much faster at this. It is a simple matter of practice, though. I am doing a lot of stopping and looking stuff up, and that is where most of my time is spent.

150 WPM is my long term goal. At that point it is better than anything I could get from a qwerty layout, even with infinite practice.

Links:

http://plover.stenoknight.com/

https://sites.google.com/site/ploverdoc/

http://qwertysteno.com/Home/

https://github.com/caru/StenoTutor

Comment author: westward 26 December 2013 10:13:23PM 0 points [-]

I know Mirabai Knight, of stenoknight. She's a great person and doing strong work in lower the cost of entry to becoming a stenographer.

Comment author: ThrustVectoring 27 December 2013 12:42:38AM 0 points [-]

The cost of entry is now almost entirely a time/focus/attention cost, rather than getting equipment and software and professional training. If I had or was a child, I'd recommend learning this - it's a valuable and useful skill, and the opportunity costs are lower for non-adults.