On speed reading: I read faster than anyone I've ever met, and I definitely disagree with 1+2. I don't read linearly- most words are superfluous to understand

On speed reading: I read faster than anyone I've ever met, and I definitely disagree with 1+2. I don't read linearly- most words are superfluous to understanding the subject at hand, and you really only need to scan the whole paragraph for important nouns and verbs to understand its meaning. Reading while pointing my finger at the line would slow me down a whole lot. And before people go off on me for not understanding what I'm reading, or not properly enjoying a good book, fine, it's possible. But it doesn't seem to have hurt me. I was always the best English student as a kid, got 99th percentile on both the SATs and GREs on the verbal section, did well on my exams, went to an Ivy League, etc.