This includes labor and material. You can do it yourself for $60, the cost of the materials-sandpaper, deglosser, primer, paint and brush-and earn an 80 percent saving. It'll cost more in time and money to paint the interior of the cabinets because the insides have much more surface to cover than the outside.
The average shorthand words per minute count is 225. This is the average that modern shorthand or stenographer classes require to allow students to graduate.
Factors of shorthand speed. To my thinking, shorthand speed depends upon several factors: 1. If you try to write longhand really fast, you'll only reach about 50 w.p.m. if you write words out in full. No matter how much practice you get, your speed is hampered by the mechanics of forming legible words. Most alpha shorthand systems are capable of reaching speeds upwards of 100 w.p.m. Most symbol systems can go 20-40 w.p.m. faster with adequate work; the old symbol systems, the ones intended for court work, can be cranked up to over 200 w.p.m. (For comparison purposes, average speech is about 150 w.p.m. Beginning secretaries were required [in years past] to write at least 80 w.p.m. for three or five minutes. Experienced secretaries were said to have speeds of 120 w.p.m. or more since they would be familiar with the vocabulary of their field.