Whenever I speed read I tend to stop in the middle or end of a page and think, "okay what was this page about" and have to read it again.
Huh, I guess I've been speed reading practically my whole life.
I don't really like the whole fixed word chunk thing, I end up trying to predict what's in the next part of the sentence. I suppose a solution for me would be a steady scroll down the text. But so far, 2200 wpm 10 word chunks is about right for me, it's not so fast that I have to mentally catch my breath so to speak, but not so slow that I get bored waiting for it to update.
I am extremely well educated and I read like a champ.
I like the internal vocalization part of reading though :(
I thought my reading skill was at an impressive level until I did this, can barely get past 200 WPM...
300 wpm was slow to me. 600 wpm feels more normal for me, also seems to be close to my limit.
800 is fast, 1000 I can almost read but not quite.
[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]
Ol' Fiberoptic Eyes over here
When I was in school and we had a reading assignment, IE something I had to read that I probably had more interest in being shot than reading, I would just forget a sentence the instant I finished it and would have to read the damn thing 3 times. Even though I'm a fairly quick reader, my internal voice is a nazi and isn't going to relinquish control
Personally, I think I read too fast. I have been trying to learn how to slow down.
[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]
Pretty much same story here except my dad moved all the time for medical school. And it wasn't a lack of friends so much as not being allowed to watch TV or play games on schoolnights. So I would spend my days from 3pm-9pm just reading. I remember taking a lexile test in the 5th grade and my teacher having to allow me to bring books from home since none of the approved books in the library matched my lexile score (post-High school).
I can really crank up the speed but end up missing a lot of words. Comfortable for me is about 500 for good comprehension, any higher and I dump the meaning pretty quickly.
Speed reading is really useful for quickly proofreading texts for technical errors. Other than that, you really shouldn't be reading faster than you can process, especially with high-level texts. Also, speed reading takes the fun out of reading novels or fiction in general
A good way to speed read non-fiction (textbooks etc.) is to ask yourself while reading, "Is this sentence important or is it filler?" If it's filler, just quickly scan over it. If not, slow down a little and really take in what you're reading.
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[QUOTE=Desuh;43465898]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.[/QUOTE]
A good way for recollection is to annotate your books. Simple page summaries can help you recall pages and events.
[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]
you shut your damn whore mouth
3500 wpm? i can't even believe that
[QUOTE=Monkey san;43536561]you shut your damn whore mouth
3500 wpm? i can't even believe that[/QUOTE]
I can do it, doesn't necccesarily mean thats how I like to read though. and like i said, Spreed reading is way different than reading a book or a screen though.
Try it yourself and see how you cope.
with chunks of 4 i can go up to 2000, w/ 1 word i can do 1200
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