I trained myself on how to speed read at age 16 by accident (when compared to a medical school friend who went to a bootcamp and employed roughly the same techn

I trained myself on how to speed read at age 16 by accident (when compared to a medical school friend who went to a bootcamp and employed roughly the same techniques). Anecdotally the depth of the material is inversely correlated with reading speed. For fluff magazine type pieces, the extra speed is helpful however if it's a textbook or anything dense, the bottleneck is usually somewhere else. Still worth doing though. If you run the math out spending 40 hours like my friend did for even a 2% speed gain is likely a positive return over the course of your life. The one downside is the feeling of annoyance when hearing anyone else subvocalize as they read. The nagging feeling of "you could be going faster!" is annoying.