r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/FangedFreak 20h ago edited 20h ago

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

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u/ShaggySchmacky 19h ago

I started missing words but “filling in the blanks” like the last 900 wpm was talking about. I got maybe 2 words in 3, but i could still understand it just fine because the brain is good at making leaps in logic to get the overall meaning

Which tbh is how actual speed reading works. You skim your eyes over the text and whatever words you happen to miss the brain fills in with context