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| Speed Teacher Step TwoThe first step helped you establish a steady rhythm. That, alone, will be a great help.
The second step is very simple. It will help you stay up with the dictation. If you work on this step, you will have improve your rhythm (Step 1) and reduce the number of words that you carry (Step 2).
Step One used five words on the screen and the Top 100 drill.
Step Two will use the Top 100 drill, but the number of words on the screen will be reduced.
To understand the benefit of the drill, set the Speed Teacher controls as follows:
Number of Words = 10
Speed = 200
Now click start. The words are on the screen for only a short time, but you have enough time to read all of them before the screen changes to the next one.
Now change the controls to the following:
Number of Words = 1
Speed = 200
Click Start again. The drill is still at 200, but with only one word on the screen at a time, it makes the drill seem extremely fast. To read all of the words, you have to quickly read each word as it appears.
If you were doing this drill, you would have the exact same amount of time to stroke each word, but with one word on the screen at a time, you would have to react immediately. Learn to do this, and you will not trail behind the speaker as much as you did before.
And if you do not trail, then you will not be forced to drop.
Here is the pain-free way to conquer this step.
Set the drill on Top 100 words.
Set the number of words at 4.
Set the speed at your normal speed.
When you can successfully complete each screen, don't increase the speed like you did in the Step One. This time, you want to reduce the number of words.
So when you are ready, reduce the number of words to three and continue drilling.
You may want to give this step a little extra practice. If your brain wants to revolt against learning how to do this drill, it usually will put up its fight here. If you can learn to do three words, you should have no trouble with two and one.
Eventually, you will be drilling on two words and then one word. Once you do that, you are ready to change the speed.
When you decide to raise the speed of the drill, you may find it very useful to increase the number of words on the screen.
For example, suppose that you have successfully written 100 wpm with one word on the screen.
If you go straight to 110 wpm with one word on the screen, you will probably notice the increase in speed.
But if you go to 110 wpm and increase the number of words to two or three, you may not notice any difference at all.
You probably won't have to increase the number of words farther than that. In fact, if you increase the speed to 110 wpm and increase the number of words on the screen to five, you just might find that the 100 wpm drill with one word was much harder to do.
So what you do is you work on a speed until you have reduced the number of words on the screen to one.
Then you increase the speed and the number of words on the screen.
And then you work on that speed until you reduce the number of words to one.
Then you raise the speed again.
Do the drills exactly as you were told in Step One. That means that if you do not finish each screen before it changes, then you lower the speed. And you only raise the speed if you do successfully complete each screen.
Take a break between drills. You need to relax your brain.
Don't cheat yourself. You don't have to be perfect at all times, but these drills teach rhythm and reaction. If you just barely complete a speed, you may be better off if you stay at that speed for a little while.
By the way, ignore the speed. As you learn to write with rhythm, you will think that you have gained speed. What actually happens is that you will not hesitate as much and that will give you more time to write other words. In other words, you will be writing at the same speed, but you will be writing more strokes per minute because you will not have the hesitations. So concentrate on writing correctly, rather than at top speed.
Oh, one more thing: ignore the speed. When you learn to write with one word on the screen, you will greatly increase your reaction time. When your reaction time increases, you will find it easier to stay up with the dictation.
And since you don't fall behind as much as you did before, you don't drop as many times as you did before. The result of that is that your test scores have improved. And once again, it is not the result of learning to write faster. It is due to learning to write better. So let me say it again: Concentrate on writing correctly, rather than at top speed.
That's all that there is to Step Two. No matter what drills you use in the future, you should always use the drill in Step Two. It is excellent.
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