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Speedbuilding for Smarties A Roadmap for Success

Speedbuilding for Smarties A Roadmap for Success

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Speedbuilding for Smarties

A Roadmap for Success

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What is Speedbuilding

• Training your brain to – Process more and more information in a given

period of time, and– Use it to control motor action (steno or voice

strokes) – Efficiently

• The “Cardio” of your practice routine!

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All machine writing…

• Is not speedbuilding• Some practice needs to focus on…

– Accuracy– Endurance– Correction– Comfort– New Ground– Fun & Recreation

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Your Job as a Student

• Speed build Successfully– Increase your “writing” speed– Reveal what happens to your writing when

you increase your writing speed• Make errors and reveal them

– Take successful corrective action– Build endurance – Assess test readiness

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What is practice?

• Writing on your machine

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True Speedbuilding…

• Take small increments of dictation• Start from a “position of strength”• Repeat the dictation/writing at successively

higher speeds– To “goal speed”– Beyond “goal speed”

• Analyze writing• Do corrective exercises• Repeat the process

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What happens when you speed-build properly?

• Put a pattern of doing the material correctly in short term memory

• Your brain can use this pattern to guide you when it’s trying to process information coming in at a faster rate than its comfortable with

• Your brain tries to help you copy your lower speed “good” writing at the higher speed!

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What happens when you speed-build improperly?

• Put a pattern of doing the material poorly in short term memory

• Your brain can use this pattern to guide you when it’s trying to process information coming in at a faster rate than its comfortable with

• Your brain tries to help you copy your mistakes at the higher speed!

• Speed development takes longer and is much harder, especially at higher speeds!

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Realtime & Accuracy?

• Proper speedbuilding will keep…• Your realtime ready level 20-30 word per minutes

behind your threshold testing level…• Throughout your speedbuilding career.• Allow you to bring your “good writing” up to goal

speed faster

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Questions

Post any questions you have about this presentation to the

discussion forum titled “Speedbuilding for Smarties.”