Open Steno Project (Plover): Typing At 300 WPM?

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Court reporters have used stenography for over a century to write at over 200 words per minute, faster than most people speak

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Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphē or graphie (writing).

via OP link and Wiki on "Shorthand"

edit: There's also another project called the "Charachorder" for example: https://www.charachorder.com/

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Stenography often requires you to press 5 or 6 keys at once, and sometimes as many as 16.

I don't have enough fingers to qualify as a stenographer.

haha, sounds impossible, right?! It becomes possible because you put your fingers between two vertical keys, so you can do it with the 4 fingers on each hand on the home row keys (asdf jkl;) - try for example putting a middle finger between "E" and "D" on a keyboard and pressing them both at the same time

edit: you could hit more keys by putting your finger in the middle of four of them

That's all great, but with a little practice, anyone can type 300 wpm, even without stenography.

WPM or KPM? The unofficial world record seems to be 293 WPM.

Good point! And sorry, my bad. I was confusing 300 WPM with KPM. 🫣