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I learned recently that to read faster your eyes should move LESS. Your eyes are constantly twitching and that makes reading slower. You can’t stop that but you

I learned recently that to read faster your eyes should move LESS. Your eyes are constantly twitching and that makes reading slower. You can’t stop that but you can reduce it by moving your eyes less. At least that’s how I understand it. So how to do it? Take a page/column of text and break it up into 3 smaller columns. Do this either in your head or physically on the paper. Then look at the center of the first column but read all the words on the first row with your peripheral vision, without moving your eyes. Do the same with the next column and the next until you’ve finished that row of text and move down to the next row of text. Repeat. It took some practice and at first I was slower, but much sooner than I expected I became a faster reader than my wife, who has always been much faster than me.

akadeb 6y ago
That's cool, thanks for the response! So the idea is you only move your eyes to three columns? Do you also find that you gather the same amount from your reading?
- auslegung 6y ago
  Yup that’s the idea, your eyes should only move 3 times per row of text. I read quite a lot, both fiction and nonfiction, and I’m getting the same experience just faster. I’m not losing comprehension, retention, or imagination, though when reading fiction I’ve never spent much time trying to imagine scenery and whatnot, even when reading sci-fi/fantasy. So maybe if you really spend time and effort picturing in your mind what’s happening on the page, maybe you’d lose that but idk, the human brain is incredibly fast