
CCRA-NJ 2023 Speed Contest: Rich Germosen Wins!
On Saturday, April 29, 2023, the CCRA-NJ held the Writer Workout Workshop, CCRA-NJ's first in-person CEU event since 2018 at the East Brunswick Library. We had two hours of CEU content: a steno swap/metronome instructional hosted by Karen Friedlander, followed by one hour of live high-speed dictation. Afterwards, attendees were able to participate in the CCRA-NJ 2023 Speed Contest consisting of one 5-minute 280 word per minute Q&A live dictation.
There were seven contestants and five qualified at 95% or above. The following are the results:
The 2023 New Jersey Speed Champion is Rich Germosen.
1st Place – Rich Germosen with 29 errors at a 97.929% accuracy rate.
2nd Place - Patricia Frank with 30 errors at a 97.857% accuracy rate.
3rd Place - Karen Friedlander with 42 errors at a 97.000% accuracy rate.
4th Place – Devon Gerber with 53 errors at a 96.214% accuracy rate.
5th Place – Diane DiTizii with 55 errors at a 96.071% accuracy rate.
The CCRA-NJ gives a special thanks to Woody Waga for sponsoring this year’s first place prize. We also say thanks to Diane Belmonte, JoAnn Haberkorn, and Doreen Massaro for dictating at the Writer Workout Workshop, as well as everyone who was in attendance.

Congratulations to the contestants!

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