Welcome to Magnum Steno

I'm Mark Kislingbury, and it's great to see you here!

Purpose of this site:

Three tools that you can achieve your machine shorthand goals:

• First, there is the book "Magnum Steno: Write Short - Write Fast!" This book is like a "Ph.D." course in WRITING SHORT! It's $249 in our store, and students and previous customers get a $50 discount. Call 713-837-6595 for the discount code to enter in the store. THIS BOOK IS SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES and like everything on this site comes with 100% satisfaction guarantee!
• Second, we have the Magnum Steno Club! This amazing club costs only $29.95 a month, with no minimum, cancel any time. It provides hundreds of videos of me dictating three categories of videos: speed, briefs, and instructional. Practice daily with me and quickly become one of the best reporters and captioners in the country. Call 713-837-6595 or write me at rtexcellence@aol.com for a FREE one-week trial of the Magnum Steno Club!
• Third, I am presenting Magnum Steno Seminars around the country. (Each one is NCRA-approved or pending approval) Currently I have few scheduled due to preparing a huge project which I hope to announce soon.

In addition, I am available for personal consultations. I have helped hundreds via e-mail and telephone to resolve their problems and achieve their goals, at no charge.

Also, I personally answer your e-mail questions. I'm here to help you! rtexcellence@aol.com.

Every single thing you ever pay for at Magnum Steno, Inc., COMES WITH A 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE OR YOUR MONEY BACK!

Sincerely, Mark Kislingbury

Questions?

Call Jordane at 713-837-6595 or write her at ! Or write Mark personally an e-mail: . See you soon!

ATTENTION Students and previous customers, call in to get your DISCOUNT code when buying the Magnum Steno book!

About Magnum Steno

Are you a court reporter, captioner or student of either one of these careers and want to become better, faster, more accurate and the best writer you can be? Are you unsure what exactly is holding you back from writing faster and always keeping pace with the speaker, and unclear about how to become faster?

Mark Kislingbury

Mark Kislingbury is the Guinness World Record holder in speed writing and is the fastest, shortest writer in the world. Mark is now sharing his techniques with court reporters, captioners and students around the world. He has the answers you are looking for to be able to write faster, shorter and take your career to the next level. If you truly want to become one of the best court reporters or captioners in the business, and are willing to practice diligently, you've come to the right place.

The biggest problem that most reporters and students have when writing, is in being able to get the speaker's words down as quickly, and as accurately, as possible. The most dramatic way to improve your skills is to be able to 'write short', by using as many abbreviations and 'briefs' as possible. This reduces the number of separate machine key strokes you need to make, by learning how to combine groups of keystrokes, much like a chord on a piano, allowing you to get groups of words or information down much faster, so you can keep up with the speaker.

Although many successful reporters and students use some abbreviations, they usually rely on fast fingers that can achieve a high number of keystrokes, and therefore words, per minute. However, their ultimate speed will always be limited by the number of strokes needed for each word. Also, the pressure of always having to write so fast is stressful and can cause finger and joint problems from the repetitive strain. Reducing the number of strokes per word simply makes the job so much easier, less stressful and better for your health.

Writing Mechanics

Let's look at the mechanics of reporting spoken words in a court or lecture situation. As you listen to the speech, there are two factors that limit the speed and accuracy with which you can report them. The first is simply how fast you can write; how many keystrokes you can make per minute. You can train and practice to make your fingers move faster, but there will always be a limit to how fast you can physically hit the keys to write words and abbreviations. Secondly, you can abbreviate the words as much as possible, reducing the number of strokes you need per word, allowing you to get more words down per minute. By combining these two skills, you can achieve maximum speed and easily keep up with any speaker. More importantly, you will be able to later transcribe or read back your notes with an extremely high degree of accuracy.

Mark Kislingbury is living proof that these skills can result in incredibly fast reporting. Mark has honed his skills to such a level, that in 2004, he set a new Guinness World Record for speed writing. In just one minute, he wrote an amazing 360 words, at 97.23% accuracy. To do this, he combined great writing speed, 4.8 keystrokes per second, with dramatically abbreviated words. In his record-breaking minute he used just 0.8 strokes to signify each word.

Many court reporters and captioners realize that these are areas in which they need to improve, but although they are willing to put in the time and effort to practice, they don't know exactly what they should do to be able to write faster and shorter. Without guidance from an expert and the right techniques, practice will unfortunately not produce the desired results. Many well-known techniques for writing faster and shorter only produce slight improvements or are ineffective, causing reporters and students to simply give up and fall back into their old habits.

Mark is dedicated to sharing the revolutionary, methods, which allowed him to clinch the world speed record, with his fellow reporters, captioners and students. He can teach you both how to train your fingers to move quicker, and how to reduce the number of strokes you need to get each word down accurately and combine strokes to record more shortened words at once. It seems amazing that such shortened words can allow such accuracy, but Mark's method will teach you how to easily memorize abbreviations to the most common words, allowing you too to achieve great speed.

Mark personally guarantees that you can benefit from his methods. He is 100% certain that they will help anyone whose job or occupation involves having to quickly get down the spoken word, keeping up with the speaker at all times. Mark offers training in his methods in several simple ways; just choose the method of learning that suits you best, and start writing faster today!

'Magnum Steno: Write Short, Write Fast!'

First, there is Mark's book, 'Magnum Steno: Write Short, Write Fast!', his 'Magnum Opus'. This book not only gives you details of all the techniques that make Mark a ground-breaking world record holder, they also present them in such a way that you'll learn effortlessly, have plenty of material to practice with and be writing shorter and faster in no time! This incredibly detailed book is really the equivalent of a Master's Degree in writing short, and all returning customers receive a $50 discount.

The Magnum Steno Club

If you are more of a visual and aural learner, who wants to be able to study and practice with direct video and oral guidance from Mark, there is the 'Magnum Steno Club'. Just $29.95 per month gets you unlimited access to hundreds of videos Mark has painstakingly made about his methods and practice techniques, so you can study with new material every day, any time. Mark is so sure that you'll love the club, he'll even give you a week's free trial before you commit! Just email him at rtexcellence@aol.com, or give him a call today.

Personal Seminars

Finally, Mark regularly gives personal seminars all around the country, to small select audiences of court reporters and captioners, who are eager to learn and receive personalized advice. Just contact Mark for details of up-coming seminars.

Whatever method of learning these revolutionary techniques you choose, Mark is personally committed to your success. He will always be available by email or telephone for personalized support.

Let Magnum Steno and Guinness World Record holder Mark Kislingbury help you get writing shorter and faster today. Discover the great benefits that short writing could bring to your career. Your only regret will be that you didn't do it sooner!