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but when I first saw your post, I asked myself...is this a joke? Then I read it again and I realized what you were after (I only read the tagline).
I have been an MT for 12 yrs or so and I have used the same expander, same library for 10 of those years. I would not still be an MT if I had not had someone turn me onto an Expander and insist that I use it. As I recall, I was doing about 100 to 115 lines an hour without the expander and with a very few (about 300) autocorrects. (I started using an expander that came with a library of about 13,800 terms and began to tweak it. I have more like 20,000 now.) I went past 150 lph within about 2 weeks, over 175 in a month, over 250 the next month and then I did spend about 4 or 5 months reaching for 300 lph with the expander. I didn't get faster than that for some time because other things needed to catch up...like my "ear" and my working knowledge of medical terminology. It took time because I also was not maximizing my expander and I am still not sure that I am truly maximizing it. I could make better use of it, I am sure. I work full time and for the past 9 days' worth of work I have 16,000 lines and still need to work one more day this week. Without an expander, I would not have half that. I am just not that fast of a typist, but I am expander whiz.
There is a free expander around and it used to be this site that had it, but it isn't any longer. I have a library I am happy to share, but you'd have to put my 20,000 terms in by hand because it does not have a converter. |
Forgive me...sm - Lyndia
