Professional general transcriptionist with ten years experience.

I use a Dvorak layout with a modified programmable keyboard, and regularly use text expanders while transcribing.

In a standardized typing test, I average around 100 words per minute at 98% accuracy.

With clear audio, I transcribe around 4000 words per hour at 99+% accuracy.

(It’s really more like 3000 an hour on average. I have pumped out 14,000 words in three hours once. I felt like that was blazing.)

Audiological and visual triggers cause fingers to twitch in well-trained ways.

Fingers hammering the keys, punctuating the words with great emotion.

…the repetitious sound of deletion, the silence of confusion, of focus, of listening and trying to understand.

Quietly and softly, the keys began clicking, once again rising into a crescendo of furious sound, of rhythm, dancing movements to create the everlasting words.

Fingers curl in anguish for what they’ve done.

The blank screen, beckoning.

The words are a-swirl, and the hands are at home.

The words appear without effort, easier than speaking.

Painting words with ten tongues.