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In my personal experience just inhibiting subvocalization resulted in increasing my reading speed to around 300 wpm. With other techniques (using peripheral vis
by vpeters25 11y ago
In my personal experience just inhibiting subvocalization resulted in increasing my reading speed to around 300 wpm. With other techniques (using peripheral vision to read multiple words per "shot") I got to around 440 wpm. All this based on the tests in the book I used.
The book[1] claimed you could reach up to 1200 wpm by doing all the exercises, I never got to finish all of them.
[1] "Superlectura veloz" (fast super-reading) - Carlos Quiroga
- wapapaloobop 11y agoThere seems to be some ambiguity in the term 'subvocalization'. Should it refer strictly to (A) the internal monologue, (B) micro-movements of speaking muscles, or (C) both? Correct me if I'm wrong, but my suspicion is that parsing and comprehension of text would be impossible without A. But also that A is slowed by B; thus reducing or eliminating B is beneficial.
- vpeters25 11y agoThe book I used on speed reading claimed subvocalization (internal monologue) was a "bad habit" that can be eliminated with practice. As far as my personal experience, it does.
- lhopki01 11y agoIt is almost certainly the internal monologue. I can read in two ways. One in which I have the words in my head as I read them and the other in which I just 'comprehend' entire sections of sentences at once. In the second there is never an internal monologue just comprehension. The second method lets me read most books in an evening, not sure what that works out in wpm but I was always significantly faster than anyone else at school at reading.