In the evening, as soon as he returned to the dormitory from the cafeteria, Li Ran took out a strange-shaped keyboard from his bag, which was big and square, and the keys on it looked like fingers, with only about two dozen keys, and he pressed it quickly and crackling.

"So, what kind of keyboard are you?" Wei Yuanyuan came over when he heard the sound, leaned on the back of Li Ran's chair, and asked with long eyelashes. Ma Yinuo and Zhang Jiening also quickly gathered around curiously.

"This is a stenograph, haven't you seen it?" Li Ran looked at them strangely, "There are courts and arbitration tribunals!" ”

"I haven't seen it, haha." Ma Yinuo thinks this keyboard is very fresh, and it looks quite honest.

"I've only heard of it, but I've never seen it, so it looks like this. A stenograph, with so few keys, is faster than typing on a typical keyboard? Zhang Jiening is also the first time to see this kind of machine.

"The fastest stenographer can type 500 words per minute with this machine, and the speed of ordinary people can reach 200 words per minute, which is already very fast, and this can be done faster than the speed of speech. I can't play that fast now, and the masters have to train in isolation for six months until they have muscle memory. They have become proficient in recording the trial, and they can keep up with the speed of everyone on the scene. Li Ran said while demonstrating to them, "This input method is different from the ordinary keyboard, using a syllable code, no need to enter letter by letter in turn, you see, you can hit with both hands to directly out the word, and, when encountering commonly used phrases, you can use the abbreviation code to directly come out of a bunch of words." ”

"Wow, that's so fast!" Although Li Ran is still at the elementary level, the speed at which words come out on the screen is enough to shock the roommates.

"Look at you who haven't seen the world before!" Li Ran looked at their admiring expressions, smiled and shook his long ponytail: "I'll tell you about it!" We usually use a standard keyboard, and we can only hit one key at a time, and we must enter the letters in turn. To enter Chinese at a rate of 120 words per minute, you need to make at least 240 keystrokes, or 4 keystrokes per second, which is almost impossible for ordinary people to do. This data,Put it in the usual pinyin input method,It has to be assumed to enter the word of "washing" such a single rhyme,If you enter the word "ch" 'u' 'ang' 'bed',It's even slower。 ”

"This kind of stenographer is a multi-key simultaneous method, both hands and one click, you can complete the input of two syllable codes, only need to hit the key twice per second, you can reach the speed of entering 240 words per minute." Seeing that they were about to break their fingers to count, Li Ran directly said the comparison results, "The speed has been doubled, and the physical strength of typing the keyboard has been reduced by one-half." The main thing is that this increase in efficiency is something that everyone can do. Because doing two keystrokes per second is physiologically permissive. ”

"Well, how did you come up with the idea to practice this?" Maino asked.

"Make money! Court hearings need shorthand recording, arbitral tribunal economic cases need shorthand recording, and the minutes of the people's congress meetings often find someone to shorthand, and you can earn thousands of dollars by doing part-time work. Li Ran can always know something that others have never heard of, "Now that you are taking the court examination, if you have the skills of stenographing, it is especially easy to be admitted, and all courts lack stenographers." ”

"Ah, yes, yes! My undergraduate classmates said that their arbitration tribunal sent 30 people to learn shorthand, and one of them came out, and now as long as there is a hearing, they will rob that person and give them a special allowance. Zhang Jiening, an undergraduate student, went to work in the arbitration tribunal and talked about it.

"If you type every day, you won't be able to do anything else! If you only type in the court, can you still sit in the position of a judge, and will you always be a clerk? Wei Yuanyuan asked a key question.

"Yes, I've thought about it too, but I can't plan that far now, so it's good to be able to enter the court." Li Ran typed out his words at the same time as he spoke, "Even if it weren't for the fact that he only did typing work, he might not be able to become a judge, how difficult it is to be a judge now." ”

"Why would the courts still need to type shorthand? Convert speech into text, you can use your mobile phone to achieve it, and you can speak at the same time. Maino said confusedly.

"Yes, now that technology is developing so fast, will stenographic be eliminated by AI?" Wei Yuanyuan was not afraid that this sentence would make Li Ran unhappy, and between roommates who had a harmonious relationship, they didn't have to bother to speak.

Li Ran really didn't care, and even typed out what Wei Yuanyuan said. She took off her hair and pulled her hair back together, saying: "The teacher who taught us said that the accuracy rate of stenographic work is only effective if it is above 98 percent, and anything less than 98 percent has no practical significance, and the task cannot be completed. At present, the speech-to-text technology is not so mature, the error rate is too high, and the time taken for manual error correction is too long. ”

"However, it is only a matter of time before AI technology replaces typing, and when the time comes, the stenographer industry will still disappear." Wei Yuanyuan still felt that it was not worth the time and effort to learn this skill.

"I hope that day will come a little later, I haven't practiced yet, and I haven't made any money yet. It cost me more than 5,000 to buy this machine. ”

"Huh? No way! It's so expensive, it's just a keyboard! Wei Yuanyuan's big eyes widened.

"Because there are royalties!" Li Ran stroked her baby machine.

"It's really cool to type fast! Regardless of whether it can be replaced or not, there are many skills that are not pressing! When he thought that his 30,000-word paper hurt his hand, Ma Yinuo was really envious.

She sat down in front of her computer and pondered that if she had to train for six months to learn shorthand, it would be really difficult for her to achieve, but it was indeed too inefficient to type pinyin letter by letter. I thought to myself, "If someone can come up with a shorthand method, will there be other ways to improve it that are a little easier to use?" ”

Ma Yinuo searched the Internet and found that there are really many ways to shorthand. There are those that require a special keyboard like Li Ran's stenograph, and there are also those that can be achieved with an ordinary keyboard. The easiest to get started,Is a kind of Pinyin input method,Compared with Pinyin,The usual Pinyin input method is called Li Ran mentioned"Full Pinting。

Under the spelling input method,Playing "double" word needs to knock "s" 'h'' 'u''a''n'''g' these six health,Larry input method is to use U Jian instead of SH,Use D Jian instead of ang,So,Hit "double" word only need to hit "U" and "D" two keys on it. Even if the associative thesaurus of spelling is strong,You don't need to really finish all six letters,But because Larry can also use the associative thesaurus,And the rhythm is fixed two keys out of a word,Typing sentences must be faster,More accurate。

"This Larry input method is really good! Not to mention typing fast, this neat and perfect rhythm is simply a blessing for obsessive-compulsive people! Ma Yinuo hurriedly shared with her roommates the new world she had discovered, "Wow, it turns out that many people use Larry, why haven't I heard of it before." ”

"It's not gossip, it's not attractive, and the media doesn't bother to report it." Li Ran also came into contact with other shorthand methods when learning shorthand,Said,"When the shorthand competition,In addition to us using a shorthand recorder,There are also people who take an ordinary keyboard to compete,There are five strokes of input method,There are also people who use this Larry input method。 But compared to our stenographer, it's almost impossible to win, we have the efficiency advantage of the keyboard, even the same hand speed can be twice as fast as theirs, and their hands are more tired when recording for long periods of time. ”

"You don't have to type as fast as you do, as long as it's faster than you do. I want to learn this,I read the Internet and said,Full spelling to Larry,A month to be proficient. So why don't you use Larry? Ma Yinuo, who had checked the information, began to use terminology when he spoke.

"Wouldn't that have to be practiced for a month? For most people, a week is a threshold. ”

"You're so philosophical about that!" Maino said with a smile.

Think of action,Ma Yinuo immediately downloaded the Larry keyboard program,Practice on your own computer,And called Wei Yuanyuan and Zhang Jiening together:"Let's all practice shorthand recording,Jiening,Yuanyuan,Let's practice this Larry input method,In the future, we will type in the dormitory fast!" How handsome! ”

Wei Yuanyuan and Zhang Jiening were just shocked by Li Ran's superpowers and happily offered to join.

The next day,Ma Yinuo printed three copies of the keys corresponding to the Larry program,Give Wei Yuanyuan and Zhang Jiening one each,Help them paste it under the computer screen。

Since then, whether Ma Yinuo changed his paper or sent WeChat, he changed to Larry. When I just changed the input method, it was particularly difficult, and I had to find the corresponding button for every word, and I was so anxious that I scratched my ears and cheeks, and I was upset. But after a week, she had mastered the scheme and rules, but it was still difficult to form muscle memory of the position of the buttons.

She asked the other two, "How are you doing?" I have to stare at the keyboard now to type. One moment at the screen, the other at the keyboard, it's still slow. ”

"It's so sinful, type, I have to go back and forth against the watch you printed for me, I declare that I have given up." Wei Yuanyuan was anxious, and he couldn't bear to stumble while typing and chatting.

"I'd better learn it after a while.,It's a lot slower to write papers and change the input method.,If you continue to write like this, you may not be able to finish it.。 Zhang Jiening picked up the form and said with a smile, "I treasure this watch you gave me, and I will carry it again when I have the opportunity." ”

A month later, Maino was able to type proficiently in Larry.

Later, when she printed the memo of the consensus points in black and white on the spot and handed it to the negotiator to sign, so as to prevent the other party from regretting after getting off the negotiating table; When her colleagues had not left the conference table, she had already sent the meeting minutes to everyone's email address for confirmation on the spot, in case the departments were prevaricating after the meeting; Every time, when she gives full play to the "world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable" in the workplace, someone will always ask her in surprise how she did it.

Ma Yinuo will not hesitate to tell others,As long as you practice the Larry program,Anyone can type so fast。 However,Those who envy her to complete the task quickly,Each can find a reason why they can't practice Larry,For example, voice input will eventually replace typing,For example, they have left school for so many years and have worked hard to learn things,For example, it should be enough to practice hand speed with full spelling,In short,Ma Yinuo has never met even a person who can endure for a month in order to gain shorthand skills。

As Li Ran said, for most people, a week can be regarded as a threshold.