Speed development is not about writing faster. It is, more often, about encoding faster. That is, improving your ability to convert the spoken word into the outline needed before your hand can write it down.

Word groupings are the key to speed. Here we will increase from 50 up to 120 WPM over five takes in this one passage.

A good "shorthander" must have two skills- the ability to write rapidly as well as the ability to read what has been written.