Stenography Practice Tools

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Here is a list of tools that are specifically designed for use with stenography learning in mind.

  • Typey Type for Stenographers Type Type for Stenographers is a drilling and learning resource with a fair amount of practice material and detailed quantitative feedback. It includes lessons that follow the Learn Plover! book and lets you upload your own practice material. It also has dictionaries, flashcards, recommendations on how much of which lesson to do next, a break timer, a lookup tool, and a diagram generator. Beginners may want to reduce the word count and/or repetitions in the settings to make the lessons a more reasonable length. (Doing 45×3 words at 5 WPM takes 27 minutes!)
  • Steno Jig Steno Jig has a wide variety of words, sentences, etc that you can practice with optional stroke suggestions. There are several beginner drills, and a large set of vocabulary words, and sentence practice drills that you can work through to gradually learn the top 8,000 most used words. It has Learn Plover! drills with stroke hints and lookahead display.
  • Steno Grade Steno Grade is a fork of Steno Jig that aims to improve interface and add functionality. It has a built in spectra integration within its hint system and more configurable grading options. The page is in early beta but stay tuned to see updates.
  • Practice Plover Practice Plover is a newer tool and still under construction. It has a whole set of interactive beginner exercises, many with audio, taking you most of the way through the material covered by Learn Plover.
  • Qwerty Steno Qwerty Steno is a fantastic resource which has a tutorial on steno theory written by Mike Neale of the Open Steno community. It is made for use with a qwerty keyboard, without needing to download or enable Plover.
  • The Steno Grind The Steno Grind provides interactive drills for any combination of exercises from The Art of Chording.
  • Plover Dojo (unavailable) A lovely visual approach to learning the keyboard and basic chords, using a standard QWERTY keyboard, by JR, Jay Liu, and Myrntillae Nash.
  • Top 100 Words in Plover's Dictionary A small tutorial covering the top 100 English words according to Wikipedia. Many of them are briefs and this text gives some insight as to why these strokes are the way they are.
  • StenoCycle Driving game - early prototype, but does let you drill your own words and phrases.