> The best for me is if a column is narrow enough that I don't really have to move my eyes side to side to get all the words in the column. Interesting. I'm th

> The best for me is if a column is narrow enough that I don't really have to move my eyes side to side to get all the words in the column. Interesting. I'm the opposite way. Part of how I speed read is being able to quickly back-track if I detect that I've failed to notice something important. Filling the reading surface with text means that I almost never have to scroll around to locate what I missed.