write 300 words a minute. He practiced with assiduity, but do the very best he could, he could only reach 297. It was a good story, it was well told, and it interested several of us mightily. Therefore we took pains to run it down, and found that it came from California. "I have tested my own speed," said this shorthand writer, " and find that when feeling well I can do about 165 words for a considerable length of time. I think I am a good man, and I know that a man who can average 175 words a minute for an hour is first-class, There may be a dozen or fifteen in this town who can do that, and perhaps there are forty or fifty who can do 150 words a minute. Although very many women have come into the business and are quite acceptable for business work, and for various other forms of dictation, yet when it comes to long straining work like court work and reporting long speeches, they have not the physical strength. I should say that it would take about two years for a person who is well fitted as to temperament and structure of the hands to become an expert writer of shorthand. When a young man who has practiced five or six mouths tells me he can do from 125 to 130 words a minute I conclude that he can really get away with about sixty or seventy-five, and experience has shown that my conclusion is usually right."
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