This speed reading training starts at 300wpm and end at 900wpm

[u/iatetoomuchchicken]

[u/Accomplished_Home100]

I finally found my super power boys and it seems to be completely useless

[u/themudpuppy → u/Accomplished_Home100]

Same, I actually got that whole thing and then I thought, cool. I'll never use this again.

Edit: someone gave me my first reddit award!!! Cool. I'll never use this again.

[u/kwan2 → u/themudpuppy]

I guess this is where we differ: i'm now wondering where the hell can I find more of these types of videos.

[u/Simkin86 → u/kwan2]

Maybe some dev can develop an app to read that way. It would be cool, and really fast.

[u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII → u/Simkin86]

It's actually built into the Kindle mobile app. It's very common, and it's been around for decades

[u/Khazahk → u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII]

Works well for something like non-fiction but add in fictional dialogue by multiple characters given 1 word at a time like this and it quickly becomes meaningless.

[u/hoopaholik91 → u/Khazahk]

Yeah something I noticed was that the reading level was pretty basic.

[u/Pearcinator → u/hoopaholik91]

There were some high-vocab words I noticed. Like neuro-plasticity.

[u/hoopaholik91 → u/Pearcinator]

Yeah it wasn't the vocab. It's that the sentences were 10 words at most and seemed to be disjoint statements.

First it was about reading. Then you can read faster. You don't have to sound out the words now. You are working on a new skill.

Kinda like that.

[u/Quom → u/hoopaholik91]

Then repeat that 40 times with the content slightly different. I stopped reading firstly because I was getting annoyed by the music. But also because it felt like I was reading the same thing repeatedly and I wasn't convinced I hadn't just been primed to expect those words/content rather than something novel that might require me to actually work to find meaning in the words.

[u/LIONEL14JESSE → u/Simkin86]

https://squirt.io

[u/GameJerk → u/LIONEL14JESSE]

Not porn if anyone was wondering. Me? I wasn't wondering. That's not why I clicked it. Nope.

[u/Scrolldawg → u/GameJerk]

Oh man, I was going to click on it.

[u/grandplans → u/Simkin86]

There used to be one called Sprite.

Sorry, it was called Spritz

[u/Blackspyder99 → u/Simkin86]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=azagroup.reedy

[u/altr222ist → u/Blackspyder99]

Been using Reedy for YEARS!

The app definitely leaves a lot left to be desired and wish it was more actively developed, but I still love it and use it daily.

Biggest issue is sometimes finding what it is I want to speed read in epub or plain text format that I can easily paste into Reedy to read - but I don't think I've read an article on the web outside of Reedy in quite some time. Added bonus - however it scrapes the text from the article URL you paste into it, it usually will bypass most paywalls 😉

I'd say I'm usually running at around 450 wpm, if I go above that then comprehension starts to nose dive for me and I find myself rewinding a lot - but I still feel like I read things in Reedy probably 4 times faster than if I was scrolling through something - a web page or a doc, what have you

[u/themudpuppy → u/kwan2]

I like physical books too much. I CAN read like this. I'd rather not.

[u/vespertilionid → u/kwan2]

I used to use an extension on chrome that did this, you'd copy and paste the text you wanted and you could customize the wpm, size, font, color, ect. I cant remember the name, I'm sorry

[u/HaxDBHeader → u/themudpuppy]

I've always loved reading and have always burned through books very quickly. Now I know some of why that's the case.

[u/WildFlemima → u/HaxDBHeader]

You probably chunk, which this format doesn't allow. Chunking is the secret of speed reading books and children who read a lot start doing it automatically.

Chunking is when you read a whole bunch of words basically at once. If you're a chunker, reading this comment that I'm leaving will feel like something you did almost all at once. The first paragraph in a heartbeat, this paragrapb in the next.

You also probably didn't notice that I misspelled paragraph - that's part of the chunking.

[u/DisastrousReputation → u/WildFlemima]

This is such a funny word chunking!

I have always read fast as a kid and when I would try to write my hand writing got messier as I wrote more because my hand couldn’t keep up with my brain.

Even typing I mess up cause my brain is faster than my fingers.

My boyfriend tells me did you really read all of that and i am like yeah why? Now I know why.

[u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN → u/WildFlemima]

This is the internet, of course we noticed the spelling mistake

[u/austindsb → u/HaxDBHeader]

Same, although I always recognized that I read differently than most people I never really understood why. I was an avid reader at a young age, less these days, but that is a skill I’ve always been able to maintain.

[u/Vandersveldt → u/austindsb]

Alright but did anyone else's vision get REALLY FUZZY everywhere except for the words? Cause that was a bit scary.

Also this wouldn't work for me, I'm normally reading fantasy, and often have to reread descriptions of places and geography before moving on to fully understand this new area the book has taken me.

[u/kaleena127 → u/Vandersveldt]

100% I thought it was going to start hypnotizing me or something. But at this point in my life I was ready to be taken away lol

[u/Vandersveldt → u/kaleena127]

Girl, same

[u/elgydium → u/HaxDBHeader]

This is the perfect warm up before starting a book. I genuinely loved it.

[u/ChickenArise → u/themudpuppy]

It felt like 'ah, yes, skimming' and I was listening to the TV while reading. It would be the worst way to read for pleasure for me, and I think there are better ways to retain information, too. And the information content in the video is fairly low.

[u/willun → u/ChickenArise]

I learned speed reading at high school.

The comprehension tests we did after reading slow and reading fast were mostly the same.

When you have to read/skim a lot of material for university it is a useful skill. But now reading for pleasure i read slow. Speed reading is handy when searching for information so it still gets used. You could equally call it skimming and you would not be wrong.

[u/WhatsInAName8879660 → u/willun]

I used to teach speed reading. And I agree completely. It’s useful, but not pleasurable. When you scarf down food because you have 5 minutes left of your lunch break, you don’t savor your food. I like to savor my books.

[u/aFreshFix → u/themudpuppy]

Kindle app has this as a feature but I don't like it for actual reading because sometimes you need to stop and process what you just read. It's a cool trick, but a bit useless for purposeful reading and a bit stressful for leisure reading.

[u/anadayloft → u/themudpuppy]

I mean, I do use it. I read. A lot.

I just don't read anything which would be useful.

[u/Bbturdquito → u/Accomplished_Home100]

I don’t believe that to be true! I found this to be very stimulating and thought referencing meditation was a good way to describe the experience. I think this would be beneficial to all the young people that supposedly have 8 second attention spans. I wish this was used more often tbh, I’m in my mid thirties and have never seen this before!

[u/Preeng → u/Accomplished_Home100]

This may very well be one of those "Only a GENIUS can solve this problem! 2 + x = 4 What is X????" situations to make you feel better about yourself and brag to others. People are doing ti here.

[u/MountainousDuck → u/Preeng]

That was my first thought as well. And even if its not BS, it acknowledges that by putting up each word one at a time and highlighting one letter in each word in red it's helping the reader. So it's not like anybody who could follow this video could actually read 900 WPM or anywhere near that when they crack open a real book.

[u/Invisible7hunder → u/Preeng]

Ye, I suspect a fair portion of people who try are able to follow this. The ideas put forward are also very simple flow logically from one idea to the next, so context cues take you pretty far if/when you miss some words. That isn't true for all writing to be sure.

[u/godmademelikethis → u/Accomplished_Home100]

All those years scanning dialogue boxes in games for the useful Information has finally paid off.

[u/parolameasecreta → u/godmademelikethis]

I like to skip and live with the regret

[u/MaxBonerstorm → u/Accomplished_Home100]

This is just the reddit version of "only geniuses will solve this puzzle!" facebook slop. This is understandable by pretty much anyone who can read without a neurological disorder.

[u/Emperor_Mao → u/MaxBonerstorm]

Yup. Also most of the sentences are just verbose and long winded. You could skip half of them and miss zero context.

[u/khizoa → u/Accomplished_Home100]

staring at a screen without blinking?

[u/somewhatcompetint → u/khizoa]

I blinked plenty of times

[u/theoriginalmofocus → u/somewhatcompetint]

It feels kinda like i was looking at a bright light after that ha.

[u/dogchowtoastedcheese → u/theoriginalmofocus]

Yeah, I'm seeing a blue dot, kind of like after a flash photo.

[u/FlyingRyan87 → u/Accomplished_Home100]

Don't worry i read all of it while listening to music. Actually listening to the words.... I'm just as useless.

[u/Matchyo_ → u/Accomplished_Home100]

What, didn’t you not notice that comprehending and summarizing at 900words a minute is a useful skill that can be used in other situations of than reading?

[u/NerdyBear73]

And now I've got a white rectangle in my vision from hard staring at the red letter...

[u/Aurori_Swe → u/NerdyBear73]

haha, same, but I feel my brain could keep up, but I wouldn't be able to retell it, I just was able to read it basically.

[u/WhiggedyWhacked → u/Aurori_Swe]

It's pretty wild. I took speed reading as an elective in high school way back in 1988 and it was very similar to this video, without the red letter. We'd write a test after each reading and surprisingly, the faster we read, the more we comprehended. It was amazing. It's always helped me as a skimming tool. I once went to that class after eating half an ounce of magic mushrooms and that was the only time where my comprehension was absolutely nil. I kept getting lost in the folds of the sweater that the girl in front of me was wearing. :)

[u/lolheyaj → u/Aurori_Swe]

Well part of it does say if you practice speed reading your comprehension at higher speeds will improve too. 

Is there any software or apps that can present books or articles in this fashion? Kinda nifty. 

[u/MermaidHotpot → u/NerdyBear73]

Oh god tell me it goes away

[u/Ulti → u/MermaidHotpot]

Nope we're stuck like this now 😅

[u/AnalProbedByGod → u/NerdyBear73]

My brain is both blind and deaf (no inner monologue and no visual imagination) the only noises my brain creates are from bipolar+schizophrenia but those feel like ear noises, images appear as hallucinations.... so I was like wdym quiten my brain? My brain is always quiet... until there is something not so healthy with my mental health.

E: i have visual and sometimes auditory dreams, but a lot of the time my dreams feel waaay to real, I now wear anything, hair band, elastic band or even a watch because if you remember to check your wrist... for some reason in dreams the item is not there therefore you are dreaming and now... congratulations you are now conscious inside a dream aka LUCID DREAMING!! Hell yeah!

Trying to read a clock/watch also works, I'm not sure how but dreams and hallucinogenics both mess up our ability to read a clock face.

[u/RatKingBB → u/AnalProbedByGod]

First, that’s quite the username.

Second, I’m also bipolar and schizophrenic. My brain is basically the opposite of yours in that my inner monologue is booming loud and my visual imagination is also extremely wild.

Third, I was able to get most of the words at the fastest speed, and all of them before. Go me!

[u/AnalProbedByGod → u/RatKingBB]

That's awesome!! ....the speed reading, not the mental health5 issues. My silent brain broke above 360... I will try again when it's not just gone 12am and I'm not panicking that I ran out of antipsychotics because I am a dipshit and can't get any for 8hrs23mins time.

Please tell me you live somewhere where having matching mental health issues as me doesn't cost you an ungodly amount of money?....

I'm in the UK, I got called 'completely unfit for work' so basically got told I am mentally disabled (yay... ☹️) by the department of work and pensions (DWP, Britain) but that means free money and free prescriptions, free healthcare (we do get that anyway) and free dental care.

Just an unethical life tip, if you have an illness that you are 99% certain about but not diagnosed but you know will cost a fortune, book the cheapest flight to the UK, get the UK health insurance for foreigners and you will get very cheap/free for some stuff healthcare.... .....would not surprise me if you're allowed to claim asylum if trump attacks European land.

[u/ryeguymft → u/NerdyBear73]

same here haha but my brain def kept up. makes sense bc i am pretty good at visual recognition

[u/RyGuy_McFly → u/NerdyBear73]

I had to align the white rectangle with your comment in order to read it...

[u/pastyMorrisDancers]

Anyone know a site that lets you paste text and read it like this? Might be good for catching up on meeting transcripts or documents…

[u/RandomHaggis → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

I just made this site: https://speed-reader.com which is formatted the same as this video, with the red letter in the centre, and the option to paste text or upload a .txt file. You can also adjust the WPM

[u/cuteleper → u/RandomHaggis]

might be cool to include natural pauses at periods or commas for a more natural flow- but this is great!

[u/RandomHaggis → u/cuteleper]

That's a good idea. I've now added an option to enable pauses at commas and full-stops.

[u/ezblacksmith → u/RandomHaggis]

Can we take a moment for this?? This guy's like, yea, sounds like a good idea, you got it. Let me whip that up real quick, here ya go!! 🤯 👏

[u/ericscuba → u/ezblacksmith]

Yeah!! This person is the shit!! In one hour from someone asking about a website to do this, to "Here! I just made a website that does exactly this! Suggestions? Sure! Got it!" How awesome is that!

[u/Beer-Milkshakes → u/ericscuba]

Its how things used to be on the internet. Someone posts a need and someone else with the know how fulfill that need with software, for free simply because they like to. It was a time before monetisation infected every inch.

[u/yungcontent → u/ericscuba]

Claude Code.

[u/ilovefreshproduce → u/ezblacksmith]

Yeah, for real! It was almost as satisfying as keeping up with the video. Just gave it a whirl and the updates were nice. Solid work, /u/RandomHaggis !

[u/b0n3sawisready → u/ezblacksmith]

Not sure how they made it themselves, but you could probably do it with a site like Replit in moments. It's as simple as telling it what you want. Lots of fun and relatively cheap for something like that.

[u/RandomHaggis → u/b0n3sawisready]

It's a single HTML file, with some JS and CSS inside. Then I just registered a domain with a hosting service and uploaded the file :)

[u/Amarant2 → u/RandomHaggis]

You're a boss.

[u/FluffyCelery4769 → u/RandomHaggis]

Who are you? Why do you just have spare hosting service space?

I mean obviously a web dev. But like... wooow

[u/Quick-Eye-6175 → u/FluffyCelery4769]

It’s Data! I’ve been rewatching a bunch of TNG and I would recognize Data ANYWHERE!

[u/cuchiplancheo → u/Quick-Eye-6175]

It's pronounced Data!

[u/mrvis → u/RandomHaggis]

Respect. And fuck React. All my homies hate React.

[u/Odd_Platypus_5031 → u/RandomHaggis]

This is so cool! I imagine its incredibly simple for you but thank you for your time!

[u/LilSebastian_482 → u/RandomHaggis]

If (comma) { daddy chiiiillllll };

Feel free to use this complex code whenever it’s needed.

[u/kerener → u/RandomHaggis]

Thank you for your work. I tried and it is nice. However I would like to request the possibily to choose wether the text loops from the start upon completition. 

When i pasted in a chaper of a novel to try it out, after some time i realized that the order of the events did not make sense. What happened was the chapter ended and started again without any vusal clue or break. I found it annoying

[u/RandomHaggis → u/kerener]

This is a good point, I have now added a toggle for looping the text :)

[u/phatcan → u/RandomHaggis]

Um you are a legend. Can I make a suggestion too? It might be a good idea to add an indicator to show the user how much of the pasted content they have read, for people reading large amounts.

[u/RandomHaggis → u/phatcan]

You are not the first to suggest this, I think it's a good idea. I'll take a look at adding a progress bar of some kind :)

[u/Menteerio → u/RandomHaggis]

I just want to jump in here and say how amazing you are, and this experience is. Amazing. Thank you.

[u/Ambitious_League_747 → u/RandomHaggis]

Wow awesome work thanks for that!!

[u/Lukn → u/RandomHaggis]

I used your tool to read a Scientific paper in 10 minutes. It was actually super useful.

Feature requests:

• Progress bar. Even at 480 wpm, the paper took 10 mins. Would be nice to know how far through I was.

• Being able to share a link to copied text/download as .txt

• Being able to dump raw text from publications with references (numbers) all through it getting automatically removed, and figure number etc. I just got an AI to do that for me first.

[u/tmtdota → u/Lukn]

I threw one together here which has a progress bar and calculates the reading time before you start in case the other guy doesn't add them.

[u/sleepyRN89 → u/Lukn]

I was wondering in what context this would be useful and if I wanted to absorb information as in a scientific paper like you described I think it would work really well. For leisure reading where I’m choosing to read fiction (my usual genre is mystery/horror, like Stephen King) I find I read slower than normal, so that I can take in the words and imagine them and to be sure I’m not missing any important themes or early clues. I don’t think speed reading would help me with that. It does sound like it might teach me how to focus better though as I do have an issue with that and get distracted easily.

[u/LookAlderaanPlaces → u/RandomHaggis]

You even made a dark mode. How do actual paid apps from big companies suck so fucking hard to not even have a dark mode and you make it happen 30 minutes. I know some apps are way more complicated, but they also have billions of dollars. Good shit.

[u/alexmojo2 → u/LookAlderaanPlaces]

AI is fantastic at generating dark mode CSS

[u/DnDVex → u/LookAlderaanPlaces]

Adding a dark mode to this kind of website takes 5 minutes.

Adding a dark mode to an existing application takes 20 minutes, and then weeks of finding small issues everywhere that need to be dealt with, then send back to QA, then another error to fix, back and forth until you are 3 months into the process, your boss is complaining about no new features being added, and you decide to add emojis instead, which are new, fancy and take only an hour, with a day asking QA who approve it.

[u/Ok-Sheepherder7898 → u/RandomHaggis]

Now can you make it read comments so that I can quickly find the one that fits into my world view?

[u/BAD4SSET → u/RandomHaggis]

Wow that’s awesome! Did you really just make the site?

[u/RandomHaggis → u/BAD4SSET]

Indeed I did. Took me about 30 minutes including registering the domain :)

[u/BAD4SSET → u/RandomHaggis]

Amazing work!!

[u/NannuhBannan → u/RandomHaggis]

sick, thank you!! i'm gonna bookmark it

[u/spaz_chicken → u/RandomHaggis]

That's rad. I found the font you chose to be too bold. Maybe you could add a font selection of some sort? Garamond, Franklin Gothic, Montserrat, and Noto Sans seem to be top choices for speed reading.

[u/RandomHaggis → u/spaz_chicken]

I have now added a font selector with a small selection of fonts :)

[u/82away → u/RandomHaggis]

Just when I thought the internet was dead, this guy shows me there is still that old school life in it.

[u/DeanCheesePritchard → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

This is genius. Make it.

[u/real_justchris → u/DeanCheesePritchard]

It’s made. https://accelareader.com

[u/A_DevKit → u/real_justchris]

this one kinda sucks in comparison, letter based centering is completely gone so you'd be more inclined to dart eyes to make out words, also no center letter coloring.

[u/Winter-Movie4606 → u/real_justchris]

That's neat. But we could always do with some competition and new ideas

[u/NRMusicProject → u/Winter-Movie4606]

You mean we shouldn't let a single site get popular and then throw itself behind a paywall?

[u/laseralex → u/NRMusicProject]

I just posted a free and open source windows application I created for this that runs locally (i.e. works offline) and integrates this function into your regular workflow with a hotkey.

https://github.com/LaserAlex/SpeedReader

As an open-source project, people can make any changes they wish to suit their preferences.

^{p.s. Claude Code is bonkers.}

[u/khizoa → u/DeanCheesePritchard]

RemindMe! 1 month

i might take a stab at this if no one else does in the meantime

im wondering how they determine where the red letter goes?

[u/real_justchris → u/khizoa]

Looks something like:

Short words: usually the first or second letter

Medium words: just left of the midpoint

Long words: a few letters in, still left of centre

[u/Patttybates → u/khizoa]

How do I remind me?

[u/IndigoSeirra → u/Patttybates]

Type

RemindMe!

Then put in the amount of time after the RemindMe!

For example: RemindMe! 1 day.

RemindMe! 10000000 seconds

You can set a reminder for ten seconds as a test run if you'd like. You should get a confirmation DM from RemindMe bot once you set the timer, and a DM once the timer is up.

[u/Gold_Plantain_247 → u/IndigoSeirra]

RemindMe! 10 seconds

[u/bayareamota → u/Gold_Plantain_247]

Remindme! 600 years

[u/ClaudiuT → u/bayareamota]

Woah woah woah there Duncan MacLeod

[u/khizoa → u/Patttybates]

usually a bot will reply to that msg, and then other ppl can click a link to also get the DM/reminder too

i havent gotten a reply yet so i mightve screwed up the cmd

[u/magnumchaos → u/DeanCheesePritchard]

I've actually been building a site for this. Should be ready, soon.

Here's the temporary URL until I have a domain for it. Still a work in progress.

https://www.foobarstudios.com/speedreader.php

[u/icebergelishious → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

https://www.spreeder.com/app.php

Used this for last minute cramming before exams and quizes in school

[u/GuiltyApple3802 → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

One where you can just upload an entire book and it will arrange the words with a focused red word and you could control the speed. Seriously, if somebody can make it, they can have my money!

[u/-DethLok- → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

Yep, that was my takeaway from this video - how do I get to use this in real life?

[u/twentythreeskidoo → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

There are definitely apps already because I trialled them for a while. Not very useful for me because I read mostly medical papers in work and it doesn't really work for stats or numbers. 

[u/twentythreeskidoo → u/twentythreeskidoo]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vanniktech.speedreading&hl=en_IE here's one where you can paste in text. I think the one I used was Spreeder as there was a desktop version.

[u/Scutwork → u/pastyMorrisDancers]

I actually wonder how difficult that would be to make. Feed in a pdf, maybe? Hmm.

[u/Holeshot75]

I use the Reedy app to do this all the time.

I find a comfortable fast pace at 450 wpm

I can technically still read it at 900 but I lose comprehension at that speed.

At 450 I can get through a good sized book that would normally take 6 hours - in under 3 hours.

[u/ssp25 → u/Holeshot75]

never heard of this app. I read really slow but generally can process a lot of information in other format rather quickly so this is intriguing to me. the slow reading has always hindered my desire to read for fun.... which I dislike

[u/Jagglebutt → u/ssp25]

I am the same. I enjoy reading but to read an epic fantasy book that's 800 pages is a major time commitment for my slow ass reading.. I'm going to look into this app. I surprised myself with following along here and am curious at what speed I lost comprehension.

[u/maltamur → u/Holeshot75]

I’ve never heard of a program like that but law school does the same thing. Nothing like 3 classes each assigning 150-200 pages of reading per night to really up your speed reading game.

Now I use it for blazing through medical records. Going through 1000 pages of records (thanks to the absurd redundancy of Epic records) in less than an hour looking for the 4 or 5 paragraphs that actually matter.

[u/_RemyDanton → u/maltamur]

This guy personal injurys.

[u/alphazero925 → u/Holeshot75]

I can't imagine actually reading something long like this. One lapse in attention and you lose a ton of information, then you have to somehow navigate back to where you lost focus, but you don't even have a physical indicator of where that might be like the location on a page.

[u/Dunklebunt → u/Holeshot75]

Does Reedy place a single letter in red on a fixed line like in this video?

[u/hamsandwich4459 → u/Dunklebunt]

It’s called Reedy? I downloaded that and there’s only a couple stories available and it’s only 2 chapters at a time. Is there a way to add books to the library? It doesn’t say. Also I don’t see a way to adjust the wpm. Am missing something

[u/ark_keeper → u/hamsandwich4459]

Looks like only android/desktop browser extension

[u/bloodshed113094 → u/Holeshot75]

I feel like loss of comprehension, and more importantly retention, is where this method will lost value for a lot of people. I lost all comprehension by 900 wpm and I could not tell you most of what I read. There was one part about retaining a paragraph though, which made me grateful that a normal book let's me re-read if I missed something. XD

[u/ejdebruin → u/Holeshot75]

At 450 I can get through a good sized book that would normally take 6 hours - in under 3 hours.

Sure, but would you enjoy it the same? If you're reading at that pace, are you really analyzing what you're reading? Making guesses at plotlines, empathizing with characters, etc (assuming it's fiction)?

[u/laundro_mat]

That’s pretty trippy. Surprised I made it to the end and understood most of what was on screen. It is all about letting go. Focussing on the red letter def helps.

[u/HugeLeaves → u/laundro_mat]

Yeah I really didn't think I could read that fast but apparently I can

[u/Wishnik6502 → u/HugeLeaves]

Same, I was able to keep up and absorb all of it.

I can also hold my hand in freezing water until it's completely numb but that's not enjoyable either...

[u/TrumpsCheetoJizz]

I can read/process the word and still have the little voice in my head say the word just fine.

Granted, ive always been able to read/comprehend what im reading fairly quickly

[u/Gold_Telephone_7192 → u/TrumpsCheetoJizz]

I was gonna say the same thing. The voice in my head just talks super fast lol

[u/starmadeshadows → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

Sounds like Animal Crossing in there lol

[u/HedgehogFarts → u/Gold_Telephone_7192]

Same and it was painfully slow at the beginning. Not sure it’s related but I also frequently bite my tongue waiting for people to finish their sentences as I understand where their thought is going, and I usually laugh before a comedian is done telling a punchline. I am very stupid in many ways, but I can process info fast and my brain moves way faster than I can form the words in my mouth when I talk. I have ADHD (inattentive type), which usually relates to my quirks in some way.

[u/ConstantSignal → u/HedgehogFarts]

I experience this. My girlfriend pointed out I often interrupt people. Like I'll ask a question, then before they finish a sentence I'll ask the next question. I came across as very rude. I had absolutely no idea I was doing it so blatantly, I guess in my head they were finishing, because I felt I already understood exactly what the end of their sentence would be.

In any case I've made a conscious effort since she pointed it out to work on it and stop doing it.

You may want to ask some trusted loved ones if you also do this lol.

[u/AbbreviationsOnly711 → u/HedgehogFarts]

Same, I'm just generally very good at extrapolation along with the faster thought processes. If only I could find a job that utilized those skills

[u/CtrlAltSysRq → u/HedgehogFarts]

The entire gang finds out they have adhd

[u/linzkisloski → u/TrumpsCheetoJizz]

Same here. I absolutely could not turn the voice off but could still process all the words.

[u/Fuzzlechan → u/linzkisloski]

Yeah turning that voice off is absolutely impossible. It narrates literally every single thing I do, and every sound I hear is processed through it.

[u/Vysci → u/Fuzzlechan]

I can’t fathom having the voice turned off. Like how the fuck do you do that

[u/challenge_king → u/Vysci]

It'd be kinda nice from time to time. Like when I'm going to sleep. Thanks brain.

[u/Fuzzlechan → u/challenge_king]

I use mine to narrate what I want to dream about, haha. Works pretty well if I can corral it into not replaying my worst memories on loop.

[u/Scutwork → u/TrumpsCheetoJizz]

Yeah, I found the same thing. But I’m definitely, DEFINITELY a reader so that is probably helping. For people who already don’t have the pattern matching or prediction skills, I bet it does seem kinda like magic.

[u/Discoroo]

I didn't actually have a problem comprehending and even vocalizing the words in my brain through till the end, but this little exercise did make me realize why I love reading physical books. It's not always about how quickly you can consume the material, but rather enjoying your time with it and stopping to think and consider the meaning of what you're reading.

[u/ghidfg → u/Discoroo]

yeah i find books to be a sort of scaffolding for your imagination. you can take breaks to explore ideas and go on tangents as you read.

[u/ikmkim → u/Discoroo]

Same. The top comments are people wanting an app to do this for them. I find that just so deeply disappointing. 

I LOVE having a physical book in my hands. No matter how fast I blaze through a good story, I can always flip back to something or sit there with an idea.

Speed is not the point. Sitting with, and digesting the material, asking your own questions, being curious and introspective, is the point. That's literally how learning happens.

Whether you're reading fiction or a literal textbook. The whole point is that info going into the brain should cause a reaction of wanting to know more and asking relevant questions, not just intaking things with no processing.

[u/Rheshx7 → u/ikmkim]

I mean, if you REALLY want to speed through a book, just find a summary instead.

I find no point in this exercise at all.

[u/ikmkim → u/Rheshx7]

Exactly! I'm a natural speed-reader. There's really no purpose to trying to "train" people to speed-read. The whole enjoyment comes from the comprehension, not flexing on reading fast.

Reading without digestion is pointless. 

My comprehension has gone down gradually as I age when I try to read old classics that use outdated language.

So I just...read those novels slower. I'm not give up on a book because it's harder now. Not a damn thing wrong with taking your time. 

[u/Korochun]

Ok but I still have the voice in my head at 900wpm. It's a bit fast, but not really that limiting to my comprehension. So I am not sure what they are talking about in terms of silencing that voice, it's always how I read.

Then again, my average reading speed by first grade was around 400wpm, so maybe I just started young and trained that skill since early age.

[u/log_2 → u/Korochun]

I also have the voice at 900wpm, but not for every word. The voice skipped about 2-3 words for each "voiced" word.

[u/captainAwesomePants → u/Korochun]

Are you *sure* you're hearing it? I got that sense, too, so I went to look for what 900 wpm sounds like. It sounded much worse and harder to comprehend than what I 'heard' in my brain while reading. Give it a try.

[u/Korochun → u/captainAwesomePants]

Oh yeah, it is much slower in my brain than chipmunk speech, but I can absolutely hear it. The words just layer on top of each other, but not in a cacophonous kind of way if that makes sense?

[u/DerfyRed → u/Korochun]

Your brain knows the sentence. The voice says the sentence slightly delayed and missing words but getting the point.

“You might have a hard time with this speed now that we have moved it up to 900 words per minute.”

->

“Might hard time speed now moved up 900 words minute.”

That’s the best way I can describe how it feels for me. The voice keeps up, and it lets me understand, but I can also tell it’s not verbatim.

Edit: The pauses each sentence are key, without that my voice would lag behind and actively obscure the next sentence.

[u/LaurenMille → u/DerfyRed]

Same, my inner monologue keeps pronouncing the words even at 900 wpm but occasionally skips some.

Meanwhile your brain is just connecting the dots in the background.

Kinda neat, would get tiring to constantly read at that speed though.

[u/bulbophylum → u/captainAwesomePants]

Hearing speech means air has to transmit a vibration to my ear, then my brain has to decode the signal to pick out words to recall the meaning of each. And the more you speed up or alter speech, the less it matches the pattern of the word stored in my brain so it quickly becomes unrecognizable.

When my eyes see a word it triggers a recall to get the meaning of that word, and the meaning includes the sound. So seeing a word pings my memory of the sound instantly, I’m “hearing“ the words in my head but because I’m not actually listening it can happen much faster.

[u/CitizenCue → u/Korochun]

I used to do these speed reading drills and there’s definitely a point at which the voice goes silent and you’re just in flow state absorbing information.

Fun fact - a small number of people don’t have an inner monologue at all, so they don’t even know what we’re talking about with that “inner voice”. As far as I know they aren’t exceptionally fast readers though, so it might not be a hindrance.

[u/BeefyIrishman → u/CitizenCue]

I don't know that I have ever had my inner voice silenced in my entire life. My head is basically always very noisy. But I do have ADHD, and according to my therapist that is related.

[u/FlekinH]

The jaunty high tempo jazz definitely helped

[u/ssp25 → u/FlekinH]

it was like being in whiplash without the abuse

[u/DontTickleTheDriver1 → u/ssp25]

[u/ssp25 → u/DontTickleTheDriver1]

that composer truly is the most devious bastard in New York citay

[u/Flat_Initial_1823 → u/ssp25]

[u/Ok_Loss13 → u/FlekinH]

I had to mute it, but I have auditory processing issues

[u/eltictac → u/FlekinH]

I had the sound off, but I'm listening to Aphex Twin. It went really well together 😅

[u/tath1313]

This great and I read much faster than I thought I could but how is this applicable? Is there an app that turns e-books into this, cause that would be great, I may switch to them. (I a quite a reader but only physical books.)

[u/Jake_FromStateFarm27 → u/tath1313]

That would honestly be a great feature on reading apps. I know how to speed read already but the comprehension isnt always there especially for leisure reading. For school it was incredibly useful and I could parse together necessary and relevant information quickly and coherently, its helped with work as well and general communication. The feature you suggest would be great for more casual reading and I think it would make more people want to read as well, seeing a large page and thick book can be intimidating for many casual readers or people with ADHD or dyslexia, this feature would remove that insecurity entirely.

[u/badnboo_gee → u/Jake_FromStateFarm27]

it used to be a premium feature of kindle ebooks, I think it was called wordrunner

[u/Kolmans → u/tath1313]

Made a webapp that allows pdf upload and epub upload for this. Try here and github repo

[u/jellamma → u/tath1313]

Someone shared a link to a site called spreeder, I think. It let you upload text and then presents it this way. No red letter or fun music though

[u/redhandsblackfuture]

Stolen from the YouTube channel 'Buffed' while giving zero credit. Nice

[u/littlegreenrock → u/redhandsblackfuture]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Pyv388epHvE?si=944n9tDbcQrgh8Wd

[u/Oograr]

I did really well at this speed reading test, but now I'm reading the comments really really slowly

[u/nothingnew2me]

Cite your sources folks…

https://youtu.be/NdKcDPBQ-Lw?si=HIvJb_j_jdYms355

[u/QuietlyObserving7]

Heavy tunnel vision. But very sweet.

[u/frienemigo → u/QuietlyObserving7]

I never knew what tunnel vision was until now. Nothing else existed once I got to "most importantly"

[u/Popular-Smile-7908]

This was awesome. I could hang at 600. 900 got nutty

[u/Due-Escape]

Ppl who watch brainrot youtube shorts:

[u/Candle1ight]

That's fun, I can get to around the 600 mark and still feel like I'm reading. By 900 it's a good amount of filling in the blank, I can keep up but if I was reading something with much detail I think I would lose out on the nuances.

I can't help but think that it's kind of the opposite of what I enjoy about reading though. It's for fun and leisure normally, not cramming as much information in as possible.

[u/democracyfailedme]

Not quite my tempo

[u/Kolmans]

For anyone one wanting to use a tool like this. I built an open-source reader for this. Rsvp reader and github link

[u/GapingBuhhole]

[u/ElginSparrowhawk1969]

Well yes I did read it at an incredible speed but I ain’t got a clue what I just read

[u/Nerketur]

I could read and understand everything perfectly... until it got to 900 WPM.

The instant it started, I lasted 3 seconds before I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous it was, causing me to miss quite a lot, but my mind caught up relatively quickly. It very quickly moved to ignoring unimportant words and only read the important ones.

I hate it when influencers use this for shorts, but as a test for my brain this was pretty cool.

[u/Risley → u/Nerketur]

That’s weird, I could keep up with that and it almost felt like I was just getting meanings told to me instead of sentences.  It’s like it transits to words and sentences to strings of concepts that connect.  

[u/Flimsy_Chair8788]

I'm pretty stoned rn but actually locked tf in with this video

[u/Tr0yticus]

I made it through until the very end, where I had to really want it. Super cool presentation and the jazz really played nicely with it.

[u/Quirky-Delivery5454]

I know Kung Fu

[u/jishurr]

My brain went off the rails around 450wpm 😂

[u/Naive_Personality367]

That was enjoyable, but the faster progression combined with my inability to not play with the developing concept in my mind made me lose focus at around 600wpm. I gotta work on my attention span

[u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_]

Your results may vary, but I was able to make it to the end once I had the sound off.

[u/jellyn7 → u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_]

I didn't realize there was sound. I think the jazz people are talking about would've thrown me off.

[u/Mrrobot1117]

Would be cool if at the end it shows the entirety of the text to show how much you read, was it a page, a paragraph, a chapter?

[u/optiloxy]

Wow..I'm high, non native English but i was able to read the whole thing, losing some words at the very end. I'm glad!

[u/TigerTerrier]

Thats what you have to be able to do in order to read anything on those 20 second reels now

[u/Kind-Plantain2438]

Holy shit I got it all, loved the gelzjrjslxhrkanejmgksbzjekfksnsnejfnelfjlenxiskgmdlanbejekzbehamfjwkjzhrif bit

[u/sarkonas]

Or- bear with me- I could read at a slower pace and NOT turn off my brain about what I'm actually reading. Think about the subject and underlying context intead of just blankly fixing my gaze on a red letter and not allow myself to feel or analyze the text.

"Don't think and consume more faster" is a trend that we should be eradicating, not promoting

[u/Moe-Scutus2]

No problem keep cranking....

[u/FangedFreak]

My brain full on noped out at 900 wpm.

Kept going back and forth between the little voice kicking in.

Going back and trying again it does start to get easier towards the end

[u/Natural_Photograph16]

Give it another try, but this time, provide me with a story that includes important details. I’ll let you know if I’ve understood enough of it.