Fact · Typing and writing speed
360words per minute
Mark Kislingbury set a Guinness World Record in 2004 by writing 360 words per minute on a stenotype with 97.23 percent accuracy.
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, Guinness World Records, 2004, Record entry.
Open the original- What it measures
- A realtime stenotype record set at an NCRA convention.
- What it does not show
- A short burst under test conditions, not a working rate.