Help! stuck in 200 words per minute.

[Brigette M Goodman]

Hi everyone,
I am a student in 200 words per minute and I am stuck. I need any tips available to help me get over the slump! Thanks a lot.

[Patricia Babits]

I was in the 200s longer than I was in school for 0-200. I ended up having to get up really early before class and practice high-speed material. I realized I wasn't warmed up enough for the tests. I practiced for a half hour before I left for school. Then I started passing tests. Good luck.

[Katiana Ball]

Finger drills helped me a lot!
Practicing my hestiation words also helped some.

[Glen Warner]

Hi, Shelly.

While I'm only at about 40 wpm these days (two year layoff from my writer), I have been collecting a few tips on building speed! Here's a few links:

StenoLife Practice

Speedbuilding With Accuracy

Mark Kislingbury Sez ...

With the Steno Life link, you'll be reading a rather lengthy set of posts on different ways to practice. The link provided is to the very first page of four pages worth of questions and answers. Skim through as much as you can ... and take notes when you find a method that piques your interest.

The Speedbuilding With Accuracy article talks about applying lessons learned from piano lessons to steno.

The "Mark Sez" article explains the reasoning behind Mark Kislingbury's method of practice, and provides a solid method to put that method into practice.

Finally, it can't hurt to have some sort of practice regimen ... and over at Lady Steno.com, Katiana has some interesting ideas on that as well.

Good luck! You're sooooo close ......

--gdw
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[Shelly Scott]

Oh, great point, Kristin! I forgot to add that I also listened to 210 and 225 tapes on the way to school and back :)

[Shelly Scott]

when I was trying to get through 200 and then qualifiers, I did two things that worked great:
1. practiced every day the 300 most used words
2. started typing at least one test a day, analyzed the results to my notes, then made a notebook of words that tripped me up or that I'd written incorrectly and added them to a daily practice list.

Hope that helps, and don't give up!