Anyone tried Speed Reading?

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The idea is to read 1 word at a time, and to slowly increase your speed over time. Apparently with regular practice you can climb up to 1,000+ words per minute.

Free online speed reading software | Spreeder.com

Tried a few times and although I can read faster, it takes a lot out of me. I actually feel mentally exhausted after a few minites.

250 words per min

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350 words per min

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500 words per min

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i'm a slow reader. i've never had it tested of course, but i'm simply comparing to other average people i know who may finish something in X, while i take 2-3X.

i have noticed that months later when i go to discuss a paticular section of the same book with those "fast" people, i can rattle of a series of back-and-forth quotes and they hardly remember the scene, let alone the dialogue.

for me, its like there is an inverse relationship between speed and detail. i can choose to go fast and get the basic broadstrokes, or i can choose to slow down and get the image mentally hardcoded in rich HD. i usually choose the latter.
 
What I do is I skim for the main point(s) and go from there. No point exhausting yourself over every meaningless word.

That being said, literature should never be speed read unless it was intended that way (Jack Kerouac)
 
Spritz is very interesting, and I'm interested to see where it goes.

Generally, I think reading is like fucking insofar as there are more important things than getting it over with quickly.
 
Obviously spritz comes with many limitations (like converting your reading material into something spritz can do that to) and cannot help you read faster out of the spritz viewer... But assuming the reader fits on your cellphone, or even watch for that matter, this indeed is a good tool for certain situations where you want to cram a lot of text into your head quickly.
 
Spritz is failing at the core of speed reading.
You need to capture the whole phrase not the single words. Ok you have read 1,000 words per minute but you'll retain not over 30% of content.
Speed reading is a myth without a sequence of steps of text (academic not fictional) reading. I am now at 2,000 words per minute (only PDF text not paper books) but I need 4 rounds of reading to retain at least 80% content.
 
Slightly different approach, but I like using Audibook builder to compress files so I can easily listen to them at 2x speed on my iPhone. I get sometimes up to 4 books/recorded seminars per week down the hatch this way just walking around and doing stuff around the house. Best speed reading solution I ever found and more and more books that were never available on audio before are popping up.
 
Flash4Ever said:
Spritz is failing at the core of speed reading.
You need to capture the whole phrase not the single words. Ok you have read 1,000 words per minute but you'll retain not over 30% of content.
Speed reading is a myth without a sequence of steps of text (academic not fictional) reading. I am now at 2,000 words per minute (only PDF text not paper books) but I need 4 rounds of reading to retain at least 80% content.
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Now I am curious.
Care to elaborate on your technique? Resources you have read?
 
Mind was blown when I saw this on BusinessInsider a week ago or so. Interested to see how Spritz does..wonder if this is something a large number of people will use. I'm a super slow reader, so I honestly think I would personally use it. Feelsbad
 
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