Date read: January 1, 2022 → January 1, 2022 ISBN: 978-0-470-45744-3 Topic: Personal development
- in order to read faster we have to:
- stop vocalization (reading out “loud” (move lips))
- stop regression reading (going back to the text we just read)
- enlarge our perspective vision span (read more words at once)
- build up our dictionary (the more words we know, the quicker we read them)
- read aggressively - explicitly wanting to read quickly
- we read faster when reading in columns (newspapers-like format)
- speed-reader comprehends better than a normal reader because she is utilizing her short-term memory better (meaning of the sentence vs. meaning of the word)
- pacer is good for beginner speed-reader, but should be abandoned later as it acts as a distractor for the brain
- randomising letters in the middle of words had little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text
- exercises:
- read in columns (newspapers/bible-like or draw vertical lines in the book)
- read small chunks of text at one glance and increase them over time
- focus on one thing in front of you (pencil, finger..); try to see other things in the “background”; try to perceive as much details as possible of the object in the background while still focusing on the pencil/finger
- start reading line one word from the beginning and read through the last word on the line - let peripheral vision see the very first and the very last word
- how to measure:
- WPM - word per minute
- ERR - effective reading rate (WPM * comprehension percentage score)