1. Speedbuilding for Smarties A Roadmap for Success

2. 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!

3. All machine writing… Is not speedbuilding Some practice needs to focus on… –Accuracy –Endurance –Correction –Comfort –New Ground –Fun & Recreation

4. 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

5. What is practice? Writing on your machine

6. 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

8. 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!

9. 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!

10. 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

12. Questions Post any questions you have about this presentation to the discussion forum titled “Speedbuilding for Smarties.”