I did speed reading at Sylvan when I was younger, and I was really pretty good at it. The only problem, is that during the tests which tested your comprehension

I did speed reading at Sylvan when I was younger, and I was really pretty good at it. The only problem, is that during the tests which tested your comprehension I was able to surmise the answers based on tropes & assumptions rather than actual comprehension. I could get 100% on the tests of maybe 25 answers, strictly based on tropes and assumptions. To be honest, this might have killed my love of reading fiction. To this day, I can get to pages into a book and begin making major assumptions about the rest of the book (usually it will be close enough), so when my assumptions start playing out, I abandon the book, or skip to the last chapter to find out if I was right (more often than not, the trope plays out.) If I were to continue to read it, it becomes more of a chore than something enjoyable. I don't know if this is a result of my speed reading classes, or not...but it's something I just tied together after reading this. I do enjoy reading history or things based on opinions, biographies, etc; which are much much harder to speed read. But I do wonder, just how much of speed reading is assumption and reliance on tropes...which underscores two problems, I believe, in both speed reading and in writing.