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the biggest tip that i picked up on how to read faster is this: eye movement is the bottleneck in the i/o process. your mind will process the words fast, you'
by noodle 19y ago
the biggest tip that i picked up on how to read faster is this:
eye movement is the bottleneck in the i/o process. your mind will process the words fast, you're losing all of your speed on moving your eyes across each word and focusing on them. learn to use your peripheral vision more.
on each new line, instead of focusing on the first word, focus on the second, but use your peripheral vision to read the first. finish up the line in the same way but backwards. you'll find you'll be reading markedly faster already, without really losing any of the meaning, context, or beauty of language.
you can speed it up even faster by taking the same technique to an extreme, but i don't like to do that, myself.
- elagothro 19y agoThis is very similar to how I learned to speed read, except that I learned to speed read by reading two lines at once. I admit that it is difficult to get used to, but for reading non-technical documents or for something other than pleasure, it is quite effective.
- whacked_new 19y agoEye movement isn't the bottleneck. I mean, reducing fixations will not increase comprehension. Sure, your eye takes time to move, but each saccadic jump takes less time (and is immensely precise with its jump, so it's a pretty optimized process) than that of text recognition to comprehension in your brain. Peripheral vision serves as priming mechanism. You can better prepare your mind to piece together relevant words and form meaning, but don't expect it to support reading like the center of gaze.