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Speed Reading?
Rhino
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Anyone do it and have it actucally work?
Right now I'm trying two different "Systems".
Evelyn Wood speed reading and EyeQ
In short, my reading speeds increased a little and still practicing. I'm still under 1K and have a diminishing reading comp over 600 wpm or so. I've been doing both for awhile now and kind of stuck at the moment and not really making much, if any gains. In fact the last two weeks I've had a slight decline.
Anyone do this? What's your reading speed and comprehension (if tested)? What book/system do you use? Are you breaking 1K wpm in normal reading?
Right now I'm trying two different "Systems".
Evelyn Wood speed reading and EyeQ
In short, my reading speeds increased a little and still practicing. I'm still under 1K and have a diminishing reading comp over 600 wpm or so. I've been doing both for awhile now and kind of stuck at the moment and not really making much, if any gains. In fact the last two weeks I've had a slight decline.
Anyone do this? What's your reading speed and comprehension (if tested)? What book/system do you use? Are you breaking 1K wpm in normal reading?
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I'm fairly fast reading normally - just timed myself on a 6200 word short story - finished in 12 mins 40 secs, approx 490 words a minute.
How easy are these courses to pick up? you doing a night class / learning from a book / pc software?
There's more that can be done, but those are the basics that need to be dealt with first before doing things like only focusing on three points in a given line of text and letting your peripheral vision fill in the blanks.
In the end, it really takes practice. There's not really a magic formula or trick to speed reading.
What type of "reading" are you looking to improve upon? Doing more reading in general is good, especially if it is the type that interests you, but as Dalboz pointed out, practice is what really improves reading speed and comprehension.
The two courses I'm trying are above. One is a book, the EW and the other is a PC Software (EyeQ). Both are at least 5 years ago, I got them at a thrift store.
I 100% agree; but never been taught how to read without subvocalization. It just doesn't make sense. I see the words, but they don't mean anything to me unless I subvocalize them.
Yea, I read every day. During the day I read/study either a "Learning To Learn" book, my EW Speed Reading, a Math book and a Latin book. Most of them can be more studying or doing problems then actual reading.
Also I then read out of a book about Saints, the Bible and a Buddhist book.
At work I ussually read technical documents and/or news stories off the internets.
At night when I get home I read a "story" type book. Right now I'm reading a book about the history of Elizabeth. It reads more like a fiction/novel. I just finished "Dr Jekell/Mr. Hydge". So at night, the material is pretty easy reading.
When I have free time, I ussually hit a Grim's Fairy tale, since they short, easy to read and fun.
So, it's a good mix of technical, study work and easy reading "story" formats.
I've heard of some tricks for at least making yourself aware of it. One is to count to ten out loud while you're reading, which occupies the speech center of the brain while you are trying to read. I never liked this method though.
I'm still working on it, but what I'm working on is just making my eyes go over the page faster than I can read it "out loud" in my head, and see if I can slowly disconnect the speech part of my brain from my reading, basically retraining my brain. It's helping, but it's slow, mostly coming in bursts.