Notehand and Speed

I wondered about the speed limitation of Notehand, and whether it is as bad as reputed to be. Although I’ve settled on Simplified for now, I still like to use the Notehand book for additional reading practice. Much better stuff than, “A girl doesn’t have to be a beauty to get ahead in business.” 🙂…

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A possible exercise?

A long time ago there was mention of a speed-building practice in a thread on the blog: http://gregg-shorthand.com/2008/12/19/methods-of-attacking-shorthand-speed/ (Note: Link to the _Factors of Shorthand Speed_ document now kaputt!) The idea was practicing for a long time without breaks to force the fatiguing muscles to learn how do the work with minimal effort.  I am…

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Simplified Attainable Speed Question

Yesterday I was surfing the internet and was reading the article on Wikipedia about Gregg Shorthand which I have read several times previously over the past several months. One thing that I took notice to this last time was that I am seeing conflicting info and was wondering if anyone could help clear it up….

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Progressive Speed-Building Tests

This booklet is a collection of letters and essays that have appeared in different Gregg books and in The Gregg Writer, that were compiled and marked by Clyde Blanchard to be used for dictation. Each test follows the “pyramid” method of speed building, and the first letter starts at 20 wpm. Although the selections are…

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shorthand progress

Hello everyone, I’ve been working at the Anniversary Edition about an hour every other day for a couple months now, and I’m finding my reading is still REALLY slow (1-3 seconds per form). Because both the Anniversary Manual and the Functional Method books are so dense (ie. one or two practice readings with new forms…

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A question about moving between versions

I am new to this group and have enjoyed the postings on this site very much.  I began speed writing while in grad school and recently became interested in GS.  I write allot and will mainly use GS for my own writing and occasional notes.   Thus, I began learning anniversary and then decided I…

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Teaching methods

I’ve always been been curious to know how shorthand used to be taught in American high schools or business schools. What speed and what level of proficiency were considered as standards, let’s say for intermediate courses ? I’m a conference interpreter and I learnt shorthand, not Gregg shorthand unfortunately, in a Swiss school that trained…

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Blanchard's Pyramid Plan

Clyde Blanchard devised a method to increase dictation speed, which is helpful if you are in the 60-120 wpm range, and want to increase your speed at least 20 wpm more of where you are now.  The method is called the “Pyramid Plan”, and it is based on taking additional short dictation set at a…

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