I think writing with shorter nails is quieter, as you would expect it to be. It almost seems like my fingers make a squishy sound on the keys now, though. I noticed during my drill practice that I have a real problem writing "-SH" when I mean to write "-CH." I definitely didn't feel like I made any progress on my two minutes together today, but for this last minute, I picked up on something that Gregorio mentioned on depoman. He was talking about how to pass tests, and he said that during practice, you should always make your last take a good one, and write it at a speed you're comfortable with. Of course, I've heard that many times from different sources, including other people on the forum and my professor at STLCC. I never actually did it, though.
People always seemed to say the reason was so that you would leave feeling good about your practice, no matter how poorly you actually did that day, and I always thought I was strong enough that I didn't need that. My professor also put it in terms of "writing for control" after speedbuilding, but I basically write for control the entire time, so I didn't feel like I needed to do that, either. But when Gregorio talked about it in terms of helping pass tests, I decided to give it a try, and I really like it. It's really nice to be able to write the thing that I just spent an hour failing to write, because after failing for a week (or three) straight, I start to feel like it's something that I'll never be able to do, and even though it's at a slower speed, it makes me feel better to be able to write it. I don't think that had anything to do with me getting that last minute so fast (comparatively) either, though.
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