Stenography (as I understand it) is a method of recording the spoken word in places such as courtrooms and on television.

I am a court reporting student so I spend a lot of time using a Stenograph, which is basically a fancy computer-typewriter hybrid, and practice to write with a goal of 225 words per minute. For context, the average person types at 40-60, people often at a computer type at around 80-100, and the fastest typist in the world typed at roughly 230 WPM.

Woah, that's fast! How does the average stenographer write faster than the fastest typist in the world? I don't know!