By this point, you should be:

  • Very comfortable (if not outright fluent) in writing 3-key words/syllables.
  • Comfortable writing single-stroke 4-key words/syllables
  • Mostly comfortable writing single-stroke words using more than 4 keys with only occasional hesitation remembering which key combos are used for which consonants.
  • Very comfortable with the most common high frequency word briefs (I, you, are, the) 
  • Comfortable using the most common high frequency 2-word phrase briefs.
  • Somewhat to mostly comfortable using 3-word phrase briefs
  • Comfortable to very comfortable writing simple 2-stroke words
  • Comfortable to very comfortable writing simple words using prefix and/or suffix strokes
  • Have full understanding of steno order, inversion, inflected endings (Plover's orthographic rules)
  • Mostly comfortable to comfortable with the concepts of dropping unstressed/unvoiced vowels, consonants, syllables  ("My Fair Lady" principle)
  • Very comfortable using the most common punctuation (period, comma, dash/hyphen, apostrophe/single quote, double quotes)
  • Mostly comfortable with fingerspelling, numbers 0-9.

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