Fact · Typing and writing speed
360words per minute
Guinness World Records lists Mark Kislingbury of Houston at 360 words per minute with 97.23 percent accuracy, set at the NCRA's 2004 summer convention.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“achieving 360 words per minute with 97.23% accuracy, at the NCRA 2004 summer convention on 30 July 2004”
Fastest realtime court reporter (stenotype writing), Guinness World Records, n.d., Record summary.
Open the original- What it measures
- NCRA is the National Court Reporters Association. The record is for realtime stenotype writing, which means transcribing live as the speech happens.
- What it does not show
- A single 2004 result, with the accuracy tied to 97 percent. It shows what is possible for a record attempt, not what a working reporter sustains each day.