I tried a speed reading course a long time ago. I didn't spend much time practicing, partly out of laziness and partly because the technique interfered with com

I tried a speed reading course a long time ago. I didn't spend much time practicing, partly out of laziness and partly because the technique interfered with comprehension in such a way that I would end up spending double the time because I had to read the same page over and over again to get any information out of it whatsoever. Unsurprisingly, my day to day reading speed failed to improve at all. However, it seems to have made me very good at skimming and picking topics off a page. I can identify the one or two Google results I want to follow at half a glance, while people whom I know to be capable of reading at twice my speed are still reading through each headline separately. And I can run my eyes down a wall of tutorial text to pick out a couple key terms that identify the section I want to read in depth. In short: it didn't deliver the benefits promised, but that doesn't mean it was without any benefits.