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Shorthand typing is by sounds (think syllables) and is the typing you see in court cases on TV. As Michael indicated below these typists are called stenographers and use the same phonetics (sounds) that children with reading difficulties (e.g. strong dyslexia) are thought how to speak with when they cant learn to pronounce words by natural implicit learning (listening to others and then vocalizing what they hear) or by reading and then vocalizing the sounds the letters should make

This is a much faster way of typing than Normal Typing Speed which measures typing speed of typing subsequent individual letters to type a word due to the fact that there is more than one letter in a syllable so in essence you are typing multiple letters at the same time.

The top speed for expert typists mentioned in answers below are fairly accurate

Shorthand Typing Speed - 300 WPM

Normal Typing Speed - 100 WPM
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