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Professional Teeline daily practice

Meet the Pen-twister.

A short, weird little passage built around one Teeline principle. Your daily shorthand shot: concentrated, slightly awkward and over quickly.

Your daily shorthand shot.

Short, focused and deliberately a little weird. One concentrated exercise today, then a different one tomorrow.

Today’s Pen-twister

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Pen-twisters are deliberately a little weird. Each passage is packed with examples of one Teeline principle, so natural prose comes second to concentrated practice.

Choose your practice time

Untimed

Write once for accuracy, or repeat the passage until you decide to stop.

Record today’s repetitions

Count only complete passages. Save your best result for today.

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Three ways to use it

One concentrated shorthand shot.

Write it carefully

Complete the passage once, concentrating on the featured principle and keeping every outline easy to read back.

Repeat for fluency

Choose one, two or three minutes and complete as many accurate repetitions as you can before the sand runs out.

Read it back

Cover the English and transcribe your Teeline notes into longhand. Speed is useful only when the notes remain readable.

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