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More effective than what? Nobody types fast enough to transcribe a lecture verbatim, you would need 400 chars per minute or so.

macintux 6y ago
I've known a former journalist who could type ~150 wpm. I don't doubt he could keep up with a lecture.
panopticon 6y ago
400 CPM is only 80 WPM using the normal `WPM = CPM / 5` formula. Most of my coworkers are well past 80wpm (we played a few of those typing games during the shelter-in-place order), and stenographers or court reporters generally average above 200wpm with some in the low 300s. Anecdotally, I never had an issue transcribing college lectures when it was just spoken word. My problem was when the professor started to write on the board. Diagrams and stuff were always obnoxious to transcribe quickly, but that was before the days of the iPad and such.
- fuzzfactor 6y ago
  By the time I got to the university I was using a premechanical[0] Rapidograph fountain pen to take lecture notes on high quality paper where I wrote down everything the professor wrote on the board, everything they said, and everything I thought about it at the time, especially something that might make a performance difference. I don't know how it compares to an ipad, but it was great because there was less friction and latency compared to a pencil or ball point pen. It did change your writing since you had to hold it almost vertical, not as big a change as the increased speed though. With a thin tip you could make small detailed diagrams. [0] like this: https://www.blackrockgalleries.com/product/vintage-rapidograph-no-2-pen-19277.html https://www.blackrockgalleries.com/product/vintage-rapidogra... Note: does not actually take a cartridge, it's a suction plunger assembly for liquid ink uptake, attached to the color-coded tip-size indicating band. You may want a thinner tip than No. 2 and ink having different viscosity, solids content, and drying rate than used for engineering drawing. not like this: https://www.kohinoorusa.com/rapidograph https://www.kohinoorusa.com/rapidograph not even this: https://twitter.com/yesteryearsfp/status/1016296550736293888 https://twitter.com/yesteryearsfp/status/1016296550736293888
opan 6y ago
600cpm is quite realistic, 400cpm would not strike me as outrageous in the least. Do some tests on 10fastfingers to see where you're at, it lists both cpm and wpm. I will say there are issues aside from speed, though. Sometimes it just gets overwhelming keeping up and you may freeze up for a sec.

macintux 6y ago

I've known a former journalist who could type ~150 wpm. I don't doubt he could keep up with a lecture.

panopticon 6y ago

400 CPM is only 80 WPM using the normal `WPM = CPM / 5` formula. Most of my coworkers are well past 80wpm (we played a few of those typing games during the shelter-in-place order), and stenographers or court reporters generally average above 200wpm with some in the low 300s. Anecdotally, I never had an issue transcribing college lectures when it was just spoken word. My problem was when the professor started to write on the board. Diagrams and stuff were always obnoxious to transcribe quickly, but that was before the days of the iPad and such.

fuzzfactor 6y ago
By the time I got to the university I was using a premechanical[0] Rapidograph fountain pen to take lecture notes on high quality paper where I wrote down everything the professor wrote on the board, everything they said, and everything I thought about it at the time, especially something that might make a performance difference. I don't know how it compares to an ipad, but it was great because there was less friction and latency compared to a pencil or ball point pen. It did change your writing since you had to hold it almost vertical, not as big a change as the increased speed though. With a thin tip you could make small detailed diagrams. [0] like this: https://www.blackrockgalleries.com/product/vintage-rapidograph-no-2-pen-19277.html https://www.blackrockgalleries.com/product/vintage-rapidogra... Note: does not actually take a cartridge, it's a suction plunger assembly for liquid ink uptake, attached to the color-coded tip-size indicating band. You may want a thinner tip than No. 2 and ink having different viscosity, solids content, and drying rate than used for engineering drawing. not like this: https://www.kohinoorusa.com/rapidograph https://www.kohinoorusa.com/rapidograph not even this: https://twitter.com/yesteryearsfp/status/1016296550736293888 https://twitter.com/yesteryearsfp/status/1016296550736293888

opan 6y ago

600cpm is quite realistic, 400cpm would not strike me as outrageous in the least. Do some tests on 10fastfingers to see where you're at, it lists both cpm and wpm. I will say there are issues aside from speed, though. Sometimes it just gets overwhelming keeping up and you may freeze up for a sec.