I’ve been overshooting micro-rewinds on fast talkers and lose my place. I’m on Express Scribe with an Infinity IN-USB-2 pedal, skip-back set to 700 ms, and I’m averaging about 1,150 words per hour with roughly 3.8 corrections per 1,000 words on surgical consults. Most misses cluster in long problem lists and rapid ROS sections. backtracks per minute spike from 2.1 to 3.4 when the speaker speeds up. I try to keep playback at 1.0x because speeding past that increases mishears for me. 500 ms vs 700 ms skip-back has me kinda second-guessing what actually matters for staying in rhythm.
700 ms is a pretty hefty shove for a micro-rewind. With fast talkers, it’s like tapping rewind on an old cassette and jumping a whole sentence instead of a phrase. I’d trim it to a flick: 500–600 ms tends to land you right before the word you missed without bouncing you back into old ground. You’ll spend less time re-finding your place, which usually nudges WPH up and trims those correction blips. Do you have a short play pre-roll on resume, or are you hearing audio cold each time?