Court Reporters, Court Reporting, Stenographers

Check out this video about the world of court reporting, A video to peek inside the world of competitive court reporting

Who’s the fastest typist in the land?

If you’re talking about the Land of Lincoln, it’s arguably Melanie Humphrey-Sonntag, who has won the Illinois court reporters speed contest for the past three years. At last year’s event she transcribed the contest’s blazing dictation—averaging 245 words a minute—with a 99.193 percent accuracy.

That’s about 4 words a second.

Or to put it another way, Humphrey-Sonntag types faster than your average auctioneer talks.