In German it's "querlesen" (read s.th. transversely, read s.th. across). I guess Russian and French people start top left and stop bottom right, while Germans

In German it's "querlesen" (read s.th. transversely, read s.th. across). I guess Russian and French people start top left and stop bottom right, while Germans start top center and end bottom center ... (at least that's what I do).