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i also can't read w/o the little voice in my head, but it is an interesting idea. is there a website to test reading speed + comprehension? i'm thinking someth

by dilap 11y ago

i also can't read w/o the little voice in my head, but it is an interesting idea. is there a website to test reading speed + comprehension? i'm thinking something w/ like an auto-generated story of fixed elements ("a pig and a horse visit the blue house on the hill", "a donkey and an ostrich cross the bridge over a river"), or maybe just a sampling of a large corpus of real text of similar level. you get timed on how long it takes you to read it + given a basic test to see if you actually absorbed it. would be interesting to get some numbers, and also see if these (mythical?) non-subvocalizers really are faster. i think i could see it maybe working, but i also feel like the words would be taking a whole new path through my brain. almost like a new language.

soperj 11y ago
The way I'd describe non-subvocalization is how I would describe the way my brain understands french(which i speak fluently) and german(which I don't). With French I don't need to translate anything into english to understand its meaning, where as in German I have to translate most stuff to english before having any understanding of the sentence. I don't have to hear a voice inside my head telling me the words, I just sort of understand what the text is telling me.
dilap 11y ago
@soperj very interesting, definitely does make it sounds like people who dont' subvocalize have in some sense learned reading as a 'native language'. (reply up here because i guess i hit some hn karma limit on replying or something :/.)