I read this article at 450 words per minute using Readline, a speed reading extension like spritz. 450 wpm is not a lot, and it's enough to process most of the

I read this article at 450 words per minute using Readline, a speed reading extension like spritz. 450 wpm is not a lot, and it's enough to process most of the text. But it's faster than my default reading speed, and it also makes reading feel more gentle and passive. When I read articles without it (which I do most of the time) I read a bit slower. I get distracted much more often. My mind wanders. It feels a bit more like work to make myself read the next sentence. For the same reason I prefer audio books to written books, and lectures to textbooks (although I prefer to listen to both at a sped up rate.) The density of the text matters more than anything. You can not speed read a math textbook at even normal reading speed. You can read a very light or uninteresting article at 200 wpm above normal. I can listen to some audio at 2x speed, but sometimes I slow it down to make sure I have time to process everything.