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I skimmed Skimmed really fast looking for something related to the title

• lsc 9y ago
  It's interesting; none of the 'speed reading' wisdom has worked for me. When I 'skim' I seem to be way slower than most people who 'skim' - even though I'm quite competitive when 'reading' - but I also seem to usually have some idea of what the text was about, while I find it is quite common for people skimming to not have absorbed much at all from the text. That's interesting too, because I find that in 'reading' my reading comprehension is not better if you compare me to others who have the level of education implied by my profession. When I skim, my focus is on reading faster, pushing myself through the document, and I let my unconscious deal with what information is dropped. It does move things along much faster than 'reading' at regular speed, and it does lower comprehension, but it does these things in a sort of incremental way. Most of the time when I've read about 'speed reading' it talks a lot about consciously managing that information drop, and managing where your eyes go, which for me, slows me down quite a lot, and usually ends up making my retention all but useless.