I've written notes during the lecture at the same speed as the lecturer with Word 2007 in the last year I had math in uni. This worked surprisingly well since W

I've written notes during the lecture at the same speed as the lecturer with Word 2007 in the last year I had math in uni. This worked surprisingly well since Word's math typesetting requires a lot fewer \ and {} than LaTeX and you immediately see what your current equation looks like, eliminating a lot of guesses around proper bracketing, etc. With pure LaTeX I think I couldn't have done it, despite being somewhat proficient with the language. (I've scribbled diagrams and other images by hand and done them properly at home, but the text and math parts went fairly well in real time.)