11 imgur comments <| sep |> You forgot how soulstones can also be used to obtain monsters . It ' s pretty relevant since the map completion bonuses involves Miho soulstones . <| sep |> Dare me to ask this girl out . <| sep |> I do LD in a lay circuit , so your mileage may vary . But , that being said , I ' ve never heard of anyone using a separate alphabet , even in policy . To be certain , I do use shorthand extensively I might not write down a full word until I ' m trying to make the 2 ar sound pretty and have extra time , or if the word is really short . Otherwise , everything is shortened Justice becomes a capital J , police officer PO , etc . Everyone has different shorthands , just whatever works for you , but usually you should be relatively familiar with the arguments enough to write the tag and a subpointswarrantsimpacts , and in policy you should usually have cards or blocks to respond with I mean , you should in LD too but especially policy since you have so much time . Bottom line , the better way to speed up flowing in my opinion is to just practice your flowing . Instead of learning a whole new alphabet , figure out some shorthand that works and practice writing fast . Flow a rap song , a ToC round , your partner reading your case . It ' ll help a lot more .