Intersteno 2010

[Motsak]

Really good!! Excellent :]

I really hope I will have the 700+ this year.

714.. you did close to my last year's score.

[Motsak]

Personally, I started today evening.

I did some languages.. but I've met some problems with JAVA for Italian :/ which caused several mistakes.

627 in English (3 mistakes).
Not exceptional, but correct.
Next year, I'll really aim 660+.

[Traumer]

Dommage pour les 700, Karen
Jolis scores cela dit !

4 membres de zone dactylo aux 4 premières places, ça fait plaisir à voir !
En attendant de voir ce que feront Andrei et Guilherme.

[Motsak]

Yép ! J'ai pas été suffisamment performant ;p Trop de stress !
Enfin, globalement, le score n'est pas mauvais en soi (malgré mon objectif non atteint des 7 000 points).. mais j'en suis sorti déçu parce que, une heure avant, je venais de faire 751 cpm (5 fautes) :/ J'aurais adoré avoir ce score pour le concours mais le stress m'a pulvérisé. Seul Sean ne ressent aucune pression lorsqu'il passe des concours de frappe

Ceci dit, ces derniers jours m'ont permis d'expérimenter la frappe VP "de masse", et pour quelqu'un qui a finalement réussi à tenir les 750+ sur dix minutes, je peux vous jurer que l'effort est monstrueux ! Donc tout le mérite revient à Sean.. d'être capable de tenir une telle vitesse avec une parfaite précision.

Bonne fin de semaine !

PS : Intersteno France va mettre en place un concours francophone à la fin de l'année (nov/déc). Ce concours sera gratuit et permettra pour la première fois de réunir tous les Francophones du monde entier (donc Français, Belges, Suisses, Québécois.. et autres) autour d'un challenge commun. Bref, d'ici-là, on en reparlera, mais n'hésitez pas à y participer.

[Motsak]

Sean, have you checked out Milos' scores? Amazing! He should have trained a lot :] Crazy boy he is. He got 500+ CPM on all the languages (except 2).

(I talk about foreign languages, of course. As he did too much mistakes on his mother tongue.)

[arenasnow]

Gaining 8000 in one year is quite a lot. While I'm not totally surprised, I thought Recep Ertas would be the guy to post a score like that. Still haven't heard from him yet. Disappointed, but I'm still not gonna bother with Russian since I can't do 4700 in it in two days.

[Motsak]

Lool ;p You'll be definitely able to speak Russian =)

[arenasnow]

Hakan Kurt beat me by 179 points at the last minute, so I practiced in Cyrillic some to try to reclaim second place, but I didn't fully understand the rules so even though I typed 789 characters (and thus my characters - 50 * errors was greater than his), it didn't count because I would have needed 2400 in that language for it to count.

I know others have been burned by this rule before, but I think it is a stupid rule. If your score of characters - 50 * errors is greater than 0, it SHOULD count. It might encourage more participation in other languages too.

I don't think I could have gotten 2400 in Russian in the last day anyway since I wasn't planning to type it until I thought that just typing 180 characters would do it. Now I'm really annoyed that I blew it in English with my monitor going out and my cat wanting me to feed him for a few seconds...I probably would have broken 8000 there otherwise, which would have been enough for second overall. Oh well, it's still good enough for mother tongue.

I really do think they should get rid of that rule requiring a certain number of characters (and a certain maximum number of errors) next year though. If your errors are less than 1/50 of your characters, your score should count.

[Motsak]

It's a question of % mistakes.

For adults (so people who are over 20 years old), the limit is 0,50 % of mistakes maximum. If you get more than 0,50 %, you haven't any points.

[arenasnow]

No, I had zero mistakes in Russian. The problem is that I only scored 789 and I needed to score 2400 for it to count. Had I been credited with the 789 characters I got, I would have been in second place. There's a speed limit as well as an error limit.

[Motsak]

Ok, I understand! That explains the "78 cpm".. or something like that.
Whatever, you'll be first next year =)

[Son]

Why didn't Daniel Chen take part this year?

[Motsak]

don't know ;x we have no news from him :/
Harvard must take him toooooo much time!! :p

[gsante]

Don't forget boys (and girls but they are few... why????) that in July 2011 we are waiting you in Paris (exactly on Monday July 11, in the early morning) to show your ability during 30 minutes, typing on your computer, while reading the text already typed on paper, and, why not, using abbreviations (example with the automatic correction: you asked your software to replace ue (which is not a word in French) by Union européenne...) and so on. Please see example of former worldchampionship on www.intersteno.org / Competition. the 3 best ones (in each age category) will be on the podium. Good training.
G. Sante