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Speed reading is a skill you can learn; it just takes practice. I can't imagine doing this with any book I'm trying to enjoy, though—successfully interpreting t
by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Speed reading is a skill you can learn; it just takes practice. I can't imagine doing this with any book I'm trying to enjoy, though—successfully interpreting the semantics correctly isn't the same as letting it "hit you", if that makes sense. For highly dense texts (think e.g. Kant) I can't imagine actually understanding anything at that kind of speed—at best maybe you could memorize it and process it later.
- robocat 2y agoI suspect you can lose the skill too. I used to be a fast reader. I tried improving my Spanish by reading Spanish books and I would subvocalize the words. After that I lost my fast reading skill in English.
- freedomben 2y agoHow do you go about practicing? Do you just try to push yourself faster? I notice that my error rate (reading words that aren't there) goes way up if I push myself to go faster. If I'm reading something that is easy to guess at then it might feel like I'm blazing through it with good retention, but if the words aren't what I expect then it ends up being quite counter-productive
- lupire 2y agoNot quite faster, but skipping more. Speed reading works well on texts that are highly redundant with internal "error correction". Try reading a YA novel quickly (the content motivates you to go faster :) ) and then try to read a physics paper at the same speed.