Here’s my take, although I’m personally not a big fan of this method. I just couldn’t be bothered to learn it a better way because shortly after starting to learn steno I decided it wasn’t worth my time.
One way to do this is with a long sentence. If you google how to memorize steno order, you will probably get a lot of results like this. For example, one I remember is “Should The King Please Wear His Red And Orange Starry Elephant Underwear For Royal Purposes Before Lunch Gets Totally Super Destroyed By Zombies?” Each word starts with the next letter of the keyboard, with the exception of “Starry”, which is meant to represent the star key.
Another way to do this is to just memorize the letters in vertical pairs. For example, I have a friend named TK, I might imagine she has some PoWer, and she goes to talk to HR (human resources) at a company. In my experience you don’t really need a mnemonic for the vowels, so using this technique for the consonants can help until you’re able to remember where they are without use of a mnemonic.
For anyone who really wants to use a steno and not just have knowledge of the layout, it is far better to simply drill it until you just know where every letter is. Think of it like a traditional qwerty keyboard, we don’t spend time memorizing where each key is. We just train typing until we can do it without looking at the keyboard. Especially if you’re learning this to use it, if you want to get to very fast speeds with the steno, using mnemonics is not the way I’d say to go.
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Thank you very much.