Shorthand users - what are your stats?

Hi all.  I was just playing around with my ShortHand program and noticed the stats button and it has been keeping track of my percentage typed and how much time it saves. 

It was at 32% that Shorthand typed for me, and it saved me over a year of typing since 2005.  LOL. 

I reset it and it was at 42% with just 3 reports.  It will be interesting to see what it will be Monday evening!

• Shorthand users - what are your stats? - mtmtmtmtmt
  • I did this, what did it say your speed was? - Tessie
    • It said my speed was at 600 characters. (sm) - mtmtmtmtmt
      • I could but do not type that much now - Tessie
  • Mine is 63%! nm - RI
    • Yea but are we getting paid for all those lines in SH - grasshopper
      • I average between 80% and 81% - LOVE Shorthand

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I'm not sure if this will help you or not but it can't hurt to check. 

On the autoreplace options page in ShortHand there's a box called "options" after the line for Use Alt+Ins to add current word to dictionary. Click on the options and make sure there is not a blank space in the keyword suffix box. 

It used to make me nuts because every time I created a new shorthand entry it would put a space and . behind it and I had to manually delete them.  I did that for 5 years before someone told me about that suffix box and sure enough the space and period were in there. 

Hope this helps. 

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find this especially annoying at the end of the sentence when I have to backspace to put in a period.  Do you just constantly backspace or do you know how to avoid this without typing in that command {@nospace}for each shortcut?  Sure would appreciate any help.  I am so tired of backspacing. 

immediately following the slash and have it expand.  For example if I needed to transcribe mass/sebaceous cyst, is there a way to use my expanded sebaceous cyst without having to back space after I type the slash mark?  TIA

But you know, the companies probably do charge more for stat turnaround of work so it makes sense if MTs are being hired for the purpose of doing stats that their line rate would be more.  There would probably be a 2 hour TAT required for the work. and the MT would have to be available regardless if there was work "just in case".  I asked the question because a friend of mine has been working for a company that pays 2 cents a line more for stat work (taking her cpl from a normal of 10.5 to 12.5 cents just for stats, and to 11.5 cpl for urgent reports that I think she has 5 hours to do) so I was wondering what the going rate was for MTs doing stat work only.   I asked around about the company advertising 14 cpl  for the stat work and couldn't find anything bad about them. 

Personally, I love the pressure...almost feel like I'm needed for a few minutes there ;-)  Sick, I know. 

I'm also an on-call person on nights and weekends every other week or so and I honestly really enjoy that...THAT I get paid extra for and that gig is SWEET!

I try to stay with reputable sites that tend to be more objective, or search in the journals such as JAMA.

Here's what the National Institute of Mental Health's site said - put it at 2.9%.

"Stimulant use among U.S. children ages 18 and younger had increased sharply from 0.6 percent in 1987 to 2.7 percent in 1997. By 2002, however, the estimated use was only 2.9 percent, suggesting that the rate of use has leveled off. Use was highest among 6- to 12-year-olds (4.8 percent), and lowest among children under 6 years old (0.3 percent). The low rate among preschoolers was also the most stable, countering fears that preschoolers' use of ADHD medications is escalating"

The reason why older kids have a higher percentage of using medications is by then the parents have chased down all the "natural" remedies and supplements and tried taking out sugar-- and found they don't work in the vast majority of cases.

;yo = -year-old

;py= -pack-year

etc...

This is quite interesting...it is too long to post here but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the statistics.  Thanks!

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