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r/speedreading on reddit is where you'll find people at that level. It's a skill that can be learned, but likely you self-taught and simply don't remember lear
by emseetech 2y ago
r/speedreading on reddit is where you'll find people at that level.
It's a skill that can be learned, but likely you self-taught and simply don't remember learning it.
- btilly 2y agoNo. Speed reading is explicitly trading off speed and comprehension. It takes advantage of the fact that we need to see a lot less of the text to pull out certain ideas than we think we do. I'm simply reading. In full.
- senectus1 2y agomostly, but comprehension speeds are something that is built into the brain and can only be improved but serious effort.
- emseetech 2y agoNot exactly. Speed reading has a lot of tactics that don't trade comprehension for speed. You said below that you pull in groups of words at once. Speed readers do that by looking at the spaces, which allows our brain to group words together. I started doing this when I was younger and got an immediate significant boost without practice and with no loss of comprehension. What does your comprehension test at? It's not uncommon for speed readers to test at high comprehension with your reading rate.
- btilly 2y agoI generally don't test comprehension directly. And the kinds of questions that I've seen for it on speed reading tests didn't impress me.
- ruthmarx 2y agoExcept for above where you say you 'read' but don't 'digest'. Reading implies digestion, if you're not digesting you're not reading 'in full'.
- btilly 2y agoExcept that I do digest. Just not necessarily while my eyes are occupied with the book.
- ruthmarx 2y agoSo...not as you read. It sounds like you claim to read fast, but then have to take extra time to digest, so if we add your digesting time to your reading time and count that total as reading time period, it's not actually that fast at all.