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Welcome to the Steno Wizard's Realtime Journey!






Remember when life was simple and all you had to do was make a selection on what your steno really meant? Those days are long gone.





Reporters must get themselves into top realtime form to compete in today's job market. This is my contribution toward ALL of us reaching the realtime goal.



My Steno Wizardry concept is based on the idea that writing realtime actually doesn't require magic -- just hard work, determination, and a little bit of FUN imagination.



My hope is my sharing of the ideas I've incorporated into my realtime journey will assist you in yours.



Sunday, August 7, 2011

The Numbers Game

How do you write those numbers?  Steno Wizard's method is the numbers that Steno Wizard wants to appear written out are written with the alphabetical part of the steno keyboard.  The numbers that need to appear in numerals are stroked using the number bar.  Many reporters do not care to use the number bar, but the Steno Wizard asks why not use all the keys on your steno machine?! 

Now there are some stroke-saving tips that SW uses.  For example, 11 is 1-E, 22 is 2-E, 33 is 3-E, E-6 is 66, E-7 is 77.  That's fairly common.  Another idea that SW uses is the number reversal method.  That's done by dragging in the EU letters.  For example, 87 is stroked EU78.  91 would be 1EU9. 

Admittedly, upon first incorporation, SW was reversing everything.  Ultimately, the reward was a gaining of control over numbers that get rattled off at Mach speed. 

The Roman numerals are written by dragging in the R- or -R keys with the number.  For example, 1-R is I, 2-R is II, etc.  Works very well for SW.
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