Internet Contest 2012

This year we celebrate the 10th edition of the Keyboarding championship by Internet. It will take place from 10th April to 11th May, registrations open from 5th March untill 25thMarch 2012

10 years of growing improvements

in quality and quantities!

Mehmet Kurt (Turkey), Axel Moerman ( Belgium), Petr Hendrych (Czech Republic) after their partecipation at our Internet contest 2011, were also successful at the World wide Championsip in Paris 2011 , writing a 30 minutes' text with only few faults.

Why you havd not been with them? Intersteno internet contest is the most important international championship, attended by more than 1000 participants who compete in 16 languages. A big community who can be your friend now and in the future, as they are the one of the previous Congresses who became friends.

It is surely evident that a professional approach in keyboarding is a basic competence useful in any kind of schools and help to fullfill the growing demand of producing documents with the aid of computer.

The goal of this competition is to foster proficiency in the use of the keyboard and to engage young people in fair and healthy competition with their peers all over the world.

Moreover this ability, both in mother tongue as well as in foreign languages, will be an important asset for professional life which can easily be certified by the diplomas got from successful participants.

Grading in accuracy and speed are done according to internationally agreeded standards, based on long experience and intensive investigations.
Each competitor can compare his results with those of other participants of the same age category not only in his native language, but also in as many as 15 foreign languages.

Thanks to this competition, schools are able to show their presence on the Web, at international level about an ability useful at any learning level.

The contest consists of ten-minutes of text entry, using special software available on the website www.intersteno.org
(in Java and ZAV formats). It is open to students from public, private schools or associations and for seniors (21 years and over) who register through their Intersteno National group.

Results are ranked according to the following age categories:
• children: up to 12 years (born in 2000 or after),
• pupils: 13 - 16 years (born in 1999, 1998, 1997 or 1996),
• juniors: 17 - 20 years (born in 1995, 1994, 1993 or 1992),
• seniors: older than 20 years (born in 1991 or earlier).

To qualify competitors must perform within the following limits:

Two types of championships:

• Mother tongue: competitors write in their mother tongue.
• Multilingual competition: competitors take part in 2 or more of the 16 available languages on the Java & Zav software. Only one attempt per each language is allowed.

Participation fees

• 5 euro for participation only in the mother tongue,
• 7 euro for competitors writing in two or more languages.
• The fee must be sent before 5th April 2012 . Please contact the Intersteno representative in your Country or, if not available in your country, please send the money directly to: