• Increase Your Reading Speed
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If most of the following apply to you... • Someone else told you that you read slowly • Other people seem to read at least twice as fast as you • You read at the same pace you would read aloud Then this guide and tool will help you double or triple your current reading speed. [QUOTE=Spreeder.com]Speed reading is the art of silencing subvocalization. Most readers have an average reading speed of 200 wpm, which is about as fast as they can read a passage out loud. This is no coincidence. It is their inner voice that paces through the text that keeps them from achieving higher reading speeds. They can only read as fast as they can speak because that's the way they were taught to read, through reading systems like Hooked on Phonics. However, it is entirely possible to read at a much greater speed, with much better reading comprehension, through silencing this inner voice. The solution is simple - absorb reading material faster than that inner voice can keep up. In the real world, this is achieved through methods like reading passages using a finger to point your way. You read through a page of text by following your finger line by line at a speed faster than you can normally read. This works because the eye is very good at tracking movement. Even if at this point full reading comprehension is lost, it's exactly this method of training that will allow you to read faster. With the aid of software like Spreeder, it's much easier to achieve this same result with much less effort. Load a passage of text (like this one), and the software will pace through the text at a predefined speed that you can adjust as your reading comprehension increases. To train to read faster, you must first find your base rate. Your base rate is the speed that you can read a passage of text with full comprehension. We've defaulted to 300 wpm, showing one word at a time, which is about the average that works best for our users. Now, read that passage using spreeder at that base rate. After you've finished, double that speed by going to the Settings and changing the Words Per Minute value. Reread the passage. You shouldn't expect to understand everything - in fact, more likely than not you'll only catch a couple words here and there. If you have high comprehension, that probably means that you need to set your base rate higher and rerun this test again. You should be straining to keep up with the speed of the words flashing by. This speed should be faster than your inner voice can "read". Now, reread the passage again at your base rate. It should feel a lot slower (if not, try running the speed test again). Now try moving up to a little past your base rate (for example, 400 wpm), and see how much you can comprehend at that speed. That's basically it - constantly read passages at a rate faster than you can keep up, and keep pushing the edge of what you're capable of. You'll find that when you drop down to lower speeds, you'll be able to pick up much more than you would have thought possible. One other setting that's worth mentioning in this introduction is the chunk size, which is the number of words that are flashed at each interval on the screen. When you read aloud, you can only say one word at a time. This limit does not apply to reading - with practice, you can read multiple words at a time once your inner voice subsides. As your reading speed increases, this is the best way to achieve reading speeds of 1000+ wpm. Start small with 2 word chunk sizes, but as you increase you'll find that 3, 4, or even higher chunk sizes are possible. Good luck![/QUOTE] [url=http://www.spreeder.com/app.php]Spreeder Tool[/url] Side note: I recently tried this speed reading method of reading and it really works well so I thought I'd share it. It isn't anything new but I haven't seen any mention of it on the forums.
That's odd, I actually just found this site yesterday. It's interesting, but I didn't follow through after being able to easily accomplish the default settings and text.
I slur and stammer, so 300 is actually faster than I can vocalise it. Then my brain stutters, I end up skipping a few words, some how catch up and repeat. Goddamn it's annoying as shit. Fuck having a shit neural network.
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;43428867]I slur and stammer, so 300 is actually faster than I can vocalise it. Then my brain stutters, I end up skipping a few words, some how catch up and repeat. Goddamn it's annoying as shit. Fuck having a shit neural network.[/QUOTE] Thats the thing though, to get better at speed reading you have to manage to get yourself to NOT vocalise, and get your brain to not read it by inner voicing and thinking about it. I'm at around 1200wpm on spreed with 1 word per chunk being able to read and understand every word (although it is problematic if you blink), on 3-10 words per chunk however, i can go up to a max of about 3000-3500wpm depending ont he size of the chunk.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;43429478]Thats the thing though, to get better at speed reading you have to manage to get yourself to NOT vocalise, and get your brain to not read it by inner voicing and thinking about it. I'm at around 1200wpm on spreed with 1 word per chunk being able to read and understand every word (although it is problematic if you blink), on 3-10 words per chunk however, i can go up to a max of about 3000-3500wpm depending ont he size of the chunk.[/QUOTE] I think you're starting to read faster than my internet can transfer data.
reminds me of star trek where data was reading the computer at some point and increased the speed :v:
Problem with me and speed reading is that I'm able to blitz through paragraphs, but most of the time I don't retain all the important facts and figures that pop up.
Yeah. I can read it but I won't take it in. I only speed read if I need to, it'd be neat as a default kinda thing but it'd make me more confused about things
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;43429478]Thats the thing though, to get better at speed reading you have to manage to get yourself to NOT vocalise, and get your brain to not read it by inner voicing and thinking about it. I'm at around 1200wpm on spreed with 1 word per chunk being able to read and understand every word (although it is problematic if you blink), on 3-10 words per chunk however, i can go up to a max of about 3000-3500wpm depending ont he size of the chunk.[/QUOTE] Speed reading is great, people think you are cheating when you do it, it's crazy.
Whats the average? I can do about 600 wpm. Didn't even notice the chunk size, can do 4 at 1200 with good retention of what I'm reading.
I just skip every other word. Doubled my WPM without the need for any fancy classes or training, OP. Finally I can read every single Gor novel, there's time now...
I can understand everything up to 1500wpm with one chunk, though I might miss the odd word above 1300wpm.
When I read a good novel I enjoy taking it slow however, because I always like to visualise it all and play it out in my head. But this is a handy skill for less creative reading definitely.
[QUOTE=<man>;43437799]When I read a good novel I enjoy taking it slow however, because I always like to visualise it all and play it out in my head. But this is a handy skill for less creative reading definitely.[/QUOTE] Imo, any quality book takes thought while reading. If you aren't forced to think then it probably isn't worth reading.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;43429478]Thats the thing though, to get better at speed reading you have to manage to get yourself to NOT vocalise, and get your brain to not read it by inner voicing and thinking about it. I'm at around 1200wpm on spreed with 1 word per chunk being able to read and understand every word (although it is problematic if you blink), on 3-10 words per chunk however, i can go up to a max of about 3000-3500wpm depending ont he size of the chunk.[/QUOTE] can you read a 100 page book in like 1 minute [editline]7th January 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=SigmaLambda;43433370]I just skip every other word. Doubled my WPM without the need for any fancy classes or training, OP. Finally I can read every single Gor novel, there's time now...[/QUOTE] I can any book in less than a second. read the first word and the last word book complete [editline]7th January 2014[/editline] also this site doesn't work very well for me. If I try to edit the settings and increase / decrease the WPM it just puts all the text into one lump on my screen and I have to restart the page.
You can speed read but you need to make sure you're processing what you're reading
[quote]can you read a 100 page book in like 1 minute[/quote] Must be really fucking small pages or big fucking text then if only 12 words are on a page, plus you have to factor in the time to turn pages over. I also have a weird method of reading actual books where i see all the words in an entire paragraphs all at once (or at least, depending on the book, formatting etc etc several lines that would equal a paragraph), then go over it again catching all the important/critical words. Havent timed myself but i can usually read 4-6 pages a minute comfortably, although that really depends on the book, writing style etc etc. Reading using that spreed and reading words on a screen/books is entirely different though, so I'm probably better at reading using spreed than regular reading.
It really does depend on the type of writing though. When I read the Count of Monte Cristo it took me much longer because both it was a older style of writing, and was rather complex.
This website seems kind of buggy, whenever I want to retry at a different speed all of the text comes up at once and I can't play it.
600WPM was max i could read, some of them were unclear because English is not my mother language so i don't immediantly remember it's meaning. Well i type about 70-102 WPM, but this was a real challenge to keep reading the text without missing any of it. Can't belive some people type fast as this text goes.
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;43451139]This website seems kind of buggy, whenever I want to retry at a different speed all of the text comes up at once and I can't play it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it seemed to fuck up recently. When I used it when OP was first created, it worked fine. Now I can't change word chunks for some reason
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;43451139]This website seems kind of buggy, whenever I want to retry at a different speed all of the text comes up at once and I can't play it.[/QUOTE]Yeah it happens all the time and I have to refresh the page to fix it. The max I could do was 1000 WPM, at 1200 WPM I was missing words.
Always felt like I was a faster typer and reader than most around me, just never measured it haha
I feel like I'm retarded. When I read a book I already forget what I read on the previous page so I constantly go back. And after I am finished with it I can barely recall it. Help.
You know what I think I already have it.
I feel as though when I try and scan my eyes across a line of text faster than what is my normal pace, I end up skipping words. I've been ramping up the speed on this so I'll see how it goes.
I developed my speed reading skills because all I did when I was a kid was read. When I was in sixth grade I was reading near the college level, which might be impressive but that's because I had no friends to occupy my time with. My family moved a lot because of my dad's job so I could never really keep any friends until high school.
I always found 5th grade reading tests unfair, because we had to read aloud and I had already learned to speed read, so I'd try to talk really quickly to catch up with my thoughts.
[QUOTE=Amez;43477995]I developed my speed reading skills because all I did when I was a kid was read. When I was in sixth grade I was reading near the college level, which might be impressive but that's because I had no friends to occupy my time with. My family moved a lot because of my dad's job so I could never really keep any friends until high school.[/QUOTE] 5th grade they used to do accelerated reader (AR tests) on the kids at my school. They had to stop doing it with me because I maxed out the scale they used. [editline]9th January 2014[/editline] Of course my house has more books in it then small libraries I can see why I maxed it out. I can't tell you how many times I started reading a book at like 2 pm and read nonstop until 4 AM.
I tend to read slow due to the fact I have mental slowness, I don't even read often as i end up getting brainfarts and half the time I can't process any information that I just read into my head sometimes, making me not understand what i just read half the time and have to re-read.
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