How fast read book

But slogging through dense passages of text can be time-consuming, mentally exhausting, and hard on your eyes. If you want to read faster while maintaining reading comprehension, check out these seven tips. To preview a text, scan it from the beginning to the end, paying special attention to headings, subheadings, anything in bold or large font, and bullet points.

To get a big picture understanding, skim the introductory and concluding paragraphs. Try to identify transition sentences, examine any images or graphs, and figure out how the author structured the text. Strategically approaching a text will make a big difference in how efficiently you can digest the material.

First, think about your goals. What do you want to learn by reading the material? I remember seeing someone speed read in high school and always lwanted to learn. I forgot about this for a long time. Really, thanks for posting this. I need to read much faster… would save me tons of time with my website and other job. Just read about this in your book the other day.

Back-reading is a major issue when it comes to increasing your speed, so these are great tips. If you read this article, you can pretty much scrap any speed-reading book out there. This is an excellent summary, written in readable English, of what countless books on the subject with regurgitate.

This is a prime example of results vs. Just things I picked up while trying to finish schoolwork faster. A lot of very specific information here; thanks for sharing. As a person who is a slow reader with excellent recall, I look forward to trying out this technique. Does anyone have any good recommendations for a book to practice this on that meets the requirements pg, lays flat, etc.

Interesting stuff. My question is can you turn it off? After conditioning the brain to read this way, can you simply gear back down and read at a normal pace?

I ask because I am one of those people in the world he reads just for the pure enjoyment. But if I train my brain that fast is the new normal and then want to go back to regular speed, will it be a constant process of learning and then unlearning? Thank you very much.

Greetings from the Netherlands. I read your book, and this article reminded me this technique. I need to put this technique into practice. That kind of techniques clearly help you to increase your reading speed.

Basically they are the same things I teach in my speed reading courses. I think there is at least one important thing what has not turned much attention in this post, but what is vital for achieving good comprehension at high speeds.

You have to fully focus to the text you are reading. The main reason behind poor concentration is that we let our thoughts to wander away form the text.

Because of that we do not remember what we read even if we read at slow speed. Actually reading at faster pace can help you to increase your comprehension if you concnetration abilities are poor. Consider an example of driving a car. Assume that you are driving at 30mph at any empty highway. If you are driving that slow then you can shave your beard, eat hamburgers and read newspaper while driving and you will still not crash.

Now assume that you are driving at mph. Now there is no possibility to read newspaper while driving. The same principle applies to reading. If you are reading at slow pace then you can think on other things while reading.

If you are speed reading then there is no possibility to think irrelevant thought. So if you force yourself to read faster then it wil help you to improve your concentration. In addition you will benefit from practicing special concentration exercises. For example you could peform following drills:. Counting the words. Take a book and open it on any page. Count words in every paragraph. Count words only with your eyes, do not use your fingers or pencil for that purpose. If you reach the next paragraph, start counting from zero again.

Duration of the exercise is minutes. Drawing geometrical shapes. Draw a geometrical shape on the paper for example circle, square, triangle. Then draw a similar but a bit smaller shape inside the previously drawn shape. Draw it in a way that the smaller shape fits in the bigger shape, but does not touch it.

Next draw another shape inside the previous one exactly as you did before. Continue until you reach the shape with minimal possible size. Reading a boring text. Find a book or journal, which content offers you absolutely no interest. Find minutes for the exercise. Read this text as it was the most interesting thing in the world. Avoid any distracting thoughts or making pauses whilst reading. Thanks for the great article.

I have been waiting for you to blog on this subject. Now I just have to wait to see a blog on Capoeira. I guess I was too subtle.

Either that, or there are lots of believers in this thread and very few skeptics. As was covered in the links from my previous post, there is a non-trivial trade off of comprehension when reading speed is increased. Speed readers and skimmers tend to have the same level of understanding of text that is processed at the same speed, and comprehension is greatest when reading without either technique.

Facts before assertions, please. If not, limits and trade offs should be noted. However, I have seen videos of people demonstrating Photoreading on live radio, etc. Great post.

There was mention of a student at USC that read 85, wpm. He was tested on a micro-fiche machine, as page turning was the limiting factor. But I can assure you it works, if you keep with the drills.

I hope other people get this and get it to work. How well does this work for non-native languages? Any research on whether this is of use in language acquisition? It is true that we can force ourselves to speed up by fewer fixations, and larger groups of words for each fixation. BUT, for good readers, this is only a minimal gain. Well, we learn to read by reading aloud to parents, at school.

The habit never leaves us without special training. We read at roughly the same speed at which we speak, somewhere give or take around WPM. Well, how fast can we think?? As your posters pointed out, there are deaf people and other rare individuals that have learned how to stop talking to themselves as they read.

Their reading rates are amazing, over WPM. This amazing speed can only be achieved by a completely different approach. Please let me know if you come across any useful methods for eliminating sub vocalization.

When you come across a word you do not know. You will stop and reread the words around it to understand the context it is being used. This is another way to increase your speed when reading. Bigup for the nice summary! Ever used speedreading softwares like Acereader? In order to do that, you need to stop reading and think. Just gave it a go. Enounce is an example of this type of software, and I use it to watch opencourseware lectures, for example.

Anyway, my question for Tim and everybody: still working on an advanced notetaking system to UP the comprehension from all this reading, and now listening. Any suggestions? Than you Tim. I appreciate that you bring us practical and useful information. Are we really in that much of a hurry. I appriciate the skill for sure, but it seems like it would be just adding stress to my already stressful life. By doing this it allows you to comprehend multiple words at a time where as when you sound them out you can only move as quick as you speak.

Thanks for this post! I just posted a week or so ago asking about speed reading in some other post of yours. The pacing method works well, but when I start using your method of fixation looking at every 3rd word in I become unsure where I should start and end the pacing of my pen.

Should I start from the third word in and end at the third word out as well? Since I am only looking at 2 words, why am I pacing across the entire line when it defeats the purpose of moving your eyes as little as possible? The pacing calls attention and your eyes move along with the pen rather than just jumping to the two words they are supposed to be perceiving.

This reaaally confuses me because the two suggestions seem to be contradictory. Is this normal or am I going waaay to crazy with the pacing? Lastly, can you recommend any drills that can help me improve my horizontal eye span?

Or is this something that cannot be improved? Thanks so much for this post, speed reading is something I really want to learn to do properly and this is very helpful! Problem cured — hopefully. I still have to give these tactics a go. Out of curiosity, how do these techniques and the protocol overall apply to non-English texts? Have you been successful at replicating the results in other languages? Y ou may also size the window of your browser to adjust column width. Reading is becoming more and more important in the new knowledge economy and remains the most effective human activity for transforming information into knowledge.

This seems surprising since most readers, actively reading work documents, newspapers, magazines, books or the contents of a computer display are practicing daily for at least one hour. With such an intense training everyone should be close to top performances.

Unfortunately, this is far from the real situation. The average reader is five times slower than the good reader.

Things are even worse if we consider reading efficiency as well as speed. Thus, an efficiency ratio of seven divides these two categories. Compare the results of the average reader to other areas. We may imagine a sprinter practicing every day for several years on the running track and then just calmly walking for a race. We can also picture a racing driver never exceeding 30 mph or a pianist playing every day of the week for 20 years and only able to play music like a beginner.

Unfortunately, since the age of 12, most readers do not substantially improve their efficiency and never reach their full capacity. Every computer-user who is also a slow typist is aware of the benefits he could obtain with a typing course, but nearly no one suspects the much higher profits he could reach by improving his reading comprehension and speed.

The rapid improvement of voice recognition may gradually make typing virtuosity obsolete since a good typist performs well under the speed of speech. My best audio speed is somewhere at around 2.

So I can easily get around words per minute and have a close to perfection comprehension. The primary tool that I use to stay productive and efficient is using GipsyTime , the free to do list. Sign up now.