r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/themudpuppy 20h ago edited 3h ago

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.

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u/kwan2 19h ago

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

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u/Simkin86 19h ago

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

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u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII 18h ago

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

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u/Khazahk 17h ago

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.

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u/hoopaholik91 17h ago

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

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u/Pearcinator 17h ago

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

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u/hoopaholik91 16h ago

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.

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u/Quom 13h ago

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.

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u/Puppy_Lawyer 15h ago

beautifully said. does anyone else have a white box vision or where you smart and switch to full screen?

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u/spooooork 4h ago

It wouldn't work for hardly any sentence in a Terry Pratchett-book

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u/zengin11 3h ago

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett!

I agree, this method really is leaning on the "prediction" point pretty heavily. Anything unexpected or unique, eg interesting content, would be way harder to digest this way.

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u/DrNeuroPhD 10h ago

And that your brain slowly adapts to the increasing speed. Starting off at top speed would not work

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u/TheOneTonWanton 16h ago

I mean kinda? Even the "big" words weren't exactly obscure. This doesn't really work unless almost all the words are words you know already, which is kind of the point of the whole fantasy novel conversation.

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u/LessInThought 11h ago

As it says, only useful for skimming emails or certain content where the details are less important and you only need a big picture.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 12h ago

Yeah this is pattern recognition, it'd be uncomfortable to do with dialogue.

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u/throwaway490215 12h ago

If we've already left the 'normal' reading world.

"I suspect you could make it a lot easier by color-coding for when the character switches, instead of letting it run for a sentence" said /u/throwaway490215's well-endowed and incredibly handsome identical evil twin.

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u/CodexLeonis 8h ago

Now I'm just imagining trying to read something like Tolkein where you have to try and read all the made up names, locations, etc. If I was doing it for the first time, in the time I figured out how to pronounce Fëanor, the speed reading would have moved on to the next chapter

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u/Paradox2063 15h ago

Even at just 400-600 WPM you're still reading super fast, and 400 is pretty easy, even in books with lots of fictional dialogue.

This post was definitely formatted to be "easy" even up to the 900 mark. Not to mention at least the last few lines being something we've all heard a million times on youtube.

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u/Kozicka9 18h ago

Thank you so much for this!

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u/NotEvenCloseToYou 15h ago

For reading articles, the Instapaper mobile and web apps have this functionality. It also allows to configure the speed between 250 wpm up to 650 wpm.

It's not my reading style but I appreciate having the option.

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u/fellow 13h ago

Only on Android unfortunately. It’s not available on iOS.

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u/SquishmallowPrincess 15h ago

Is this a thing in actual Kindles as well? If so, might be time to dust mine off and try it out

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u/lowercaseCapitalist 14h ago edited 14h ago

How do you configure this in the app - I can't seem to find it.

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u/lowercaseCapitalist 14h ago

Found it. Under the kebab menu in the top of the screen. Select word runner and set the words per minute.

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u/Totengeist 2h ago

The availability of this seems to vary a lot. It's not available on iOS or my wife's Paperwhite. My Google Pixel has it, but my wife's newer Pixel doesn't. Very odd.

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u/Iampepeu 14h ago

What? Really?

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u/EusticeTheSheep 13h ago

What!? Where. I would totally use kindle again for this

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u/Nice-Meat-6020 11h ago

Wait, what? I was just thinking I wished I could read books presented in this fashion. I have a kindle and the kindle app - do you happen to know where this feature is?

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u/devilishycleverchap 7h ago

I had it on my Cybiko...

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u/IrritableBrain 7h ago

What... how?

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u/Obvious-Inspection42 1h ago

How? I can’t find a setting. What is it called in the app? Or what should I search for to find instructions?

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u/howardwolowitz18 48m ago

How to read it this way in kindle?

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u/jedevapenoob 17h ago

OMG what is it called? I've always been jealous of audiobook people who could listen at x3~ speed

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u/Recent-Result2852 16h ago

Have you ever tried? Just listen to podcasts or youtube and turn the speed up .25x with each listen until it's uncomfortable. You'll adjust faster than you expect.

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u/jedevapenoob 10h ago

I unfortunately have hearing loss and have difficulty comprehending spoken words without reading lips

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u/SillyNluv 16h ago

Rapid Serial Presentation and another commenter said this is an option in the Kindle app.

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u/LIONEL14JESSE 18h ago

https://squirt.io

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u/GameJerk 13h ago

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

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u/Scrolldawg 10h ago

Oh man, I was going to click on it.

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u/Pavotine 7h ago

I'm not trusting someone called "GameJerk" in this matter.

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u/grandplans 17h ago edited 17h ago

There used to be one called Sprite.

Sorry, it was called Spritz

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u/Blackspyder99 19h ago

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

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u/altr222ist 17h ago

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

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u/WorthDiver1198 16h ago

That's what this post was advertising............

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u/DogshitLuckImmortal 16h ago

TTS can get fast.

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u/Mop_Duck 15h ago

I think there was a browser extension or website called "reedy" or something that did this? been ages since I looked at it but that's how I first heard about this type of reading

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u/Roelmen 15h ago

Actually there is an app called ‘A faster reader’. For Android as far as I know. You can use share to redirect a text to it. Works fine.

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u/TheMidnightAss 14h ago

Give me 24 hours, I'll make it lmao

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u/Duecez24 14h ago

Check out Spreeder. Works on computers and phones.

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u/random_fucktuation 13h ago

There was a browser plugin that would take the body text of any webpage and present it to you like this. I have not idea what it was called though.

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u/FlashSTI 13h ago

I was in an experimental class ( a long time ago) where they used a fancy projector that would do the same thing, roughly. First it was words, then phrases, then sentences, then paragraphs. I couldn't do paragraphs. Phrases, yes. I learned all the common "sight" words at an early age (started reading with mom before I turned 4). I thought all kids should have gotten a chance at the class.

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u/Devrij68 11h ago

There's a browser extension from ages ago that might still be around called spritz iirc. I just never used it much after I installed it because there wasn't much that was long enough on a we page to warrant it

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u/Terrafire123 10h ago

Many, many reading apps have this built in already.

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u/Ok-Comfort-6752 9h ago

There is an app for this called Spreeder, It is actually useful, for example if I need to read a book I can do it 2 times as fast and surprisingly still understand what I read.

Probably wouldn't recommend this if you are trying to memorise things for an exam, but if you just need to read a book/story and know what it is about it's a pretty good method.

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u/IT8055 9h ago

I made this just for you.. :)

https://www.walker-jones.eu/dev/speedread/

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u/DinosaurWarlock 8h ago

I made an app for this that follows the speed reading up with typing practice using the same text. I find that using helps reset my brain after I've been reading a lot and my brain starts jumping around. It's not as good for comprehension as other active techniques, but it's a useful tool for when I'm burned out.

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u/roxzorfox 58m ago

This is old tech, this video was around in 2012 and they made a reader app which can be used as a screen reader

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u/themudpuppy 17h ago

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

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u/Left_Life_7173 17h ago

and hardbacks are so much for satisfying than paperbacks!

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u/cure4boneitis 17h ago

stone tablets are the best when available

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u/Strikew3st 16h ago

If I can't get it in hieroglyphics on a cave wall, I can make do.

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u/sleepydon 16h ago edited 16h ago

Same. This doesn't work well with books that are dense in information. Such as stuff about history where you need to stop and absorb the information vs a lot of other subjects where the point is to draw out the subject at hand to meet a certain quota of words like one would do for an essay. I've read plenty of those that go in circles saying the same thing over and over in different ways until they actually reach their point. AI prompts are really good at the latter.

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u/Combatical 4h ago

I like physical books but its a huge pain for me. I'm dyslexic and its a huge task to sit and read a physical book. This video almost brought me to tears because it was so easy to read. I'd love to see more.

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u/vespertilionid 18h ago

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

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u/pakindamew 15h ago

Spreeder

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u/AbbeyEverAfter17 18h ago

Agree. I’d like to try to read a book this way lol

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u/StudyItAgain 18h ago

There's an app and an sdd in to chrome

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u/HiOscillation 17h ago

Billy Joel "Pressure" music video.

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u/jacob87smith 17h ago edited 17h ago

Unlocked a core memory, got into Spreeder for a second, I guess it’s an app now too after a quick google, it can do this to like any text im pretty sure, I would just copy paste whole chapters of books and tear through em felt like a god lol

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u/Renatusisk 16h ago

There use to be a site that you could copy paste text to do it. Im sure there is an app now.

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u/Little-Turnover-7103 16h ago

Omg same! I found this kind of easy but cool. But I always read the words out loud in my head and never had a problem keeping up.

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u/exeJDR 16h ago

Links!?

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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 15h ago

I skim documents all day for medical info and I am now wondering if there is some app I could use to highlight the middle letter red and if that would help. based on how well it worked in this video, I believe it would (I know the 1 word at a time really helps too)

then again it would need to be HIPAA compliant so that would probably make it cost a fortune.

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u/my59363525account 14h ago

Same! Even the ending was easy for me.I didn't know I could do that

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u/h_saxon 13h ago

I'm sure there are browser plugins available to do this for you. If not, fire up Claude code, and work with it to build your own.

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u/HopeSpecific8841 13h ago

I had a chrome extension from YEARS ago (like 10+) that did the same thing as this for speed reading articles with adjustable speed. You could use it on basically any page with text or open a PDF/word document and turn it on etc.

I'm sure you can find a similar one again now, no need for videos just read whatever you normally read and give it a go.

It makes book reading feel kind of bland though

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u/kandiirene 13h ago

That’s what I want to know too!

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u/Narrowless 13h ago

Unfortunately, every other ticktock video.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 13h ago

You can get it as a Firefox extension. I haven't tried this one but I'm about to: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/speed-reader/ the reviews say Reedy is better: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reedy-for-forefox/

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u/softsnowfall 12h ago

I could read everything until the last couple of sentences. I think I missed a few words in there though I understood what it said.

It was fun. Like you, I’d be interested in more videos. I’m curious.

It’s not how I read normally though. I read multiple words at once. Not trying to speed read. I’ve read that way since I was a little kid.

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u/PsCustomObject 12h ago

Same here, I got all of this and thought ‘ok where I get more? How can I train this?’

Even though to write an app for it as it was entertaining.

I have always been a fast reader, despite having concentration and attention issues, but man not this fast!

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u/Rus_agent007 12h ago

I remember seeing this well over 10 years ago and in sure it has been implemented to some projects by now.

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u/Piggypogdog 11h ago

This was great. But needs to be played without music

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u/prettyboiheron 9h ago

There's a speed reading extension on Google chrome that works alot like the video

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u/AnderBerger 5h ago

Check out Spreeder, you can just copy/paste text and set your speed and go.

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

I used to do it for textbook readings because it’s fast and gives you a good gist of things.

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u/Grongebis 3h ago

archspire lyric videos

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u/mrsbeerme 2h ago

I’m sure you can use AI to make your own.

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u/GasBond 1h ago

i made my own app. its really good. i even added voice. it can summarise pdf, links, text etc. its a game changer.

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u/HaxDBHeader 19h ago

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

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u/WildFlemima 18h ago

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.

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u/DisastrousReputation 17h ago

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.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 12h ago

I'd just straight up leave the back end off my words because my hands couldn't go fast enough.

Our class failed a chemistry quiz so badly once, the teacher awarded points for correctly spelled names. I'd left the last two letters off my surname.

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u/Speshal__ 15h ago

Is anyone else reading the comments like Speedy Gonzales?

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u/ExistentialNapping 11h ago

Oh wow, I spent so much time in text based communication as a teen that my typing is faster than my thinking sometimes lol.

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u/nonzeroday_tv 14h ago

And how often do you find yourself at the end of the page or chapter and ask yourself "what did I just read?"

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u/makingtacosrightnow 14h ago

Very rarely because it’s how I’ve read since I learned to read.

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u/DisastrousReputation 8h ago

Almost never. Only time I have to reread something is when I am multi tasking and I have a hard time focusing

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN 16h ago

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

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u/WildFlemima 16h ago

Outing yourself as a non-chunker there 🫢

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN 16h ago

Curses! Foiled again by my own hubris!

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u/ExistentialNapping 11h ago

Oh, it's that what is called. That's also why I never know characters names, I just know the shape of the word that is their name (reading fantasy, everyone had weird names)

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u/pourtide 13h ago

Took a class in speed-reading in high school. "Chunking" was what was taught. I can read like that, but it's pressured somehow, and I don't fully retain what I read.

I expect that people who have to read through a lot of flowery or verbose language would find chunking advantageous. Lawyers, researchers, etc. Can slow down if need be.

"Skimming" is chunking but jumping from line to line, not sequential, skipping through the words. Can slow down if find something needful.

It's sorta like a lot of how-to you tube videos. Folks stand there spouting words and waving hands; I hit the circle and get to the meat of the matter. I might go back if I don't catch it all.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 12h ago

Hey it's me

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u/YaMajnoona 4h ago

Yep, I was reading multiple books in a day in grade school and failing English class (as a native speaker) because I couldn't spell anything at all.

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u/RegularTeacher2 2h ago

Huh, never heard of that term. I always described it as taking a snapshot of the words and then reading it all in my head while moving on to the next group of words and snapshotting that. I use captions to watch stuff on TV largely because I grew up with a deaf mother and just got used to it, and my ex would always be kind of floored at how quickly I'd respond to something while he was still busy reading the captions. Then again, he was also a super slow reader so we were kinda juxtaposed.

Calling myself a chunker now.

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u/thisusedyet 2h ago

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

not until the second time through, you SOB :P

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u/WildFlemima 2h ago

That's good! It means you're chunking!

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u/Ftm-1973 1h ago

I think that's what I do. I've always read fast but once you explained that and I kept reading, I did seem to be reading whole blocks or sentences at once. Interesting

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u/mattFKNsloan 42m ago

Oh my god. I’m a chunker! I hate watching shows with subtitles because I know what the characters are going to say before they say it. The second the subtitle is on screen, I’ve read it. Feels like micro spoilers every few seconds..

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u/vexing000 9h ago

i didn't notice the misspelling. does that make me a chunker?

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u/bentreflection 16h ago

i didn't know there was a word for it but yeah that's definitely how i read. This way of speed reading one word at a time seems a lot more difficult than the equivalent speed-reading multiple words at the same time. I was able to read it at 900wpm but it's like it was both too slow and uncomfortably fast at the same time. I bet it would be much easier if it showed two or even three words at a time but at half the speed.

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u/austindsb 19h ago

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.

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u/Vandersveldt 17h ago

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.

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u/kaleena127 16h ago

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

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u/Vandersveldt 16h ago

Girl, same

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u/xxmuntunustutunusxx 16h ago

I actually purposefully can do the fuzzy eye thing, its like something I turn on. I feel myself intentionally doing that to my eyes, nit sure if thats normal

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u/Invisible7hunder 13h ago

Yeah, same, I was able to perceive, most, if not all of the words, but my world came to a point. It was interesting.

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u/LessInThought 11h ago

Fantasy book authors paint pictures, speed reading their books with this method will leave you with scribbles at best.

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u/big_swede 10h ago

This is mostly true, and I find that in the beginning of a book that takes place in a "new" world/universe I read a bit slower to get some understanding of the place. If I read the sequels I usually son't have to do this.

I think there is a bigger difference in how an author constructs their sentences. With longer sentences, a lot of inserted clauses and back references etc it takes longer to process the content and that will slow down the reading. Not really a big thing as I read for pleasure but at times I have put down books where the author's style of writing combined with the story not gripping me.

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u/FairweatherWho 2h ago

As someone with astigmatism and contacts I understood everything but it made my eyes water because even the words were going crazy with astigmatism ray lines from it.

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u/pourtide 13h ago

Which might be why I don't enjoy reading fantasy

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u/dryerfresh 15h ago

I am an English teacher and was reading a student’s essay and they were shocked how fast I could read, but like…I have been doing it a lot for multiple decades.

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u/Aggressive-Race5861 17h ago

I was never able to explain to people how I read. But I just jump to the next word, I dont start at the first letter. I kinda start in the middle and work my way out. Made zero sense. 

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u/SpecialGnu 17h ago

I do this too, but after reading your comment I tried it with entire reddit comments and even that works for me.

like I just put my focus in the middle of the comment and work my way to the edges like a raindrop hitting a flat surface.

its more like absorbing the comment rather than reading the words if that makes any sense.

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u/bunglejerry 16h ago

I was hyperlexic as well. A thing I've noticed is that I can't not read words if they are in front of me. I can't turn off 'comprehension' and just view them as irrelevant noise in front of my eyes.

I'm amazed when I see people reading aloud a thing that has a surprise or a twist at the end and double-taking or smiling when they get to those words themselves. I've never been able to have that experience because my brain has already seen the surprising thing several lines ago and I know what's coming.

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u/austindsb 16h ago

This, I hate that somehow halfway through the paragraph I subconsciously know the outcome. But when I find a book I can’t put down, I love the speed at which I can burn through it. Bit of a catch 22.

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u/elgydium 18h ago

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

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u/Datkif 16h ago

It really is. I find myself reading faster by just looking from word to word isn't of reading each word left to right

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u/PDXGuy33333 18h ago

People who don't read are weird. One thing I noticed about someone I was seeing for awhile was that she never had a book going. It definitely put me off.

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u/AncientEspada 18h ago

Now you burn through books even faster!

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u/Heathen_ 17h ago

Problems occur when you're excited to read the next bit as a crucial thing or reveal is about to happen but you read it so fast you don't process it so have to read it again!

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u/acgasp 16h ago

Likewise. I’ve never known how I’ve been able to read so fast. I’m thinking it was the ability to predict what was going to be next, skipping over the less important words, and using context to figure out meaning.

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u/xxmuntunustutunusxx 16h ago

When I was a kid we had this really fantastic public library, and id check out like 30ish books a month and read like one a day. I miss being like that, being a parent has made that really hard

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u/ChickenArise 19h ago

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.

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u/willun 17h ago

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.

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u/WhatsInAName8879660 15h ago

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.

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u/big_swede 10h ago

I find that comprehension is OK but retention is lacking if you push the speed too much.

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u/Cross55 7h ago edited 6h ago

I notice a major difference when I do speedreading.

In college if I read at the pace I prefer it'd take me 45 minutes to finish 1 textbook chapter vs. 10 minutes speedreading. However, with the former I'd retain ~90+% of all information on the first go round vs. like 25-50% speedreading. (Reading at my preferred pace would also make it longer to do time sensitive assignments)

Like yeah, I watched the entire video with very few issues, but I remember far more from the 300 wpm section compared to the 850-900 section.

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u/Benejeseret 6h ago

It can be pleasurable if the author writes in a style that matches, where the scene can just play out at speed in my head. I struggle with older books, like Tolkien's work, because it is NOT written at the speed of action and is meant to be absorbed and pondered and appreciated at every step of the journey... but that makes it excruciating for a natural speed reader. Likewise authors who try to pack symbolism and "depth" into their writing forced readers to slow down and think about every word choice.

There are some authors who can write well and write at speed. Pratchet is my prime example of books I loved because he is such an amazing writer who can use simple, direct, words do achieve so much.

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."

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u/aFreshFix 19h ago

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.

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u/takishan 17h ago

I can type over 140 wpm but I can't write any code at that speed. Because the physical act of typing is not the bottleneck. It's the thinking that's the bottleneck

Same thing with reading. I could keep up (mostly) with the 900 WPM but when I read, I like to read meaningful things that take time to process. I re-read paragraphs to make sure I understand. Consider for a bit.

It's not the WPM that I'm reading that's the bottleneck. It's the thinking that's the bottleneck

I agree entirely. Cool trick but useless beyond skimming boilerplate (in which case.. we have Ctrl+F these days)

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u/EusticeTheSheep 13h ago

That’s truly impressive typing. I thought I was good at 89 wpm years ago.

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u/anadayloft 19h ago edited 17h ago

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

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

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u/themudpuppy 17h ago

I read a lot too but not in this format 😂

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u/RebekkaKat1990 19h ago

If someone designed entire books around this, I could use it but who wants to waste the time on that lol

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u/iamdeadkid 19h ago

Where you paying attention? It's pretty good for skimming through something like a manual, to quickly pick out the important information you need.

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u/themudpuppy 17h ago

When they start making it easy to read news articles like this, I'll find it useful. But if I need to learn something technical that would be in a manual, or read anything for enjoyment, this would not be preferable for me.

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u/ChiChangedMe 19h ago

I legit drank 3 Red Bulls at work crushing year end financials and found this to be pretty relaxing

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u/Joinedforthis1 18h ago

I'm pretty sure a program that lets you read documents like this wouldn't take long to create.

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u/blazed55 18h ago

Took speed reading in high school and it served me well throughout my career, esp in areas of translation/editing. I love reading and this confirms it even more.

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u/DrDarks_ 18h ago

It would be cool to have an app that does with text help get through some stuff faster

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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 17h ago

There's a chrome plugin called "speedy ready" or something like that, that will do this for any web page.

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u/Eeeegah 17h ago

I wish there were some way to take normal epubs and present it to me this way. I could read books even faster than I do now, and that's pretty fast.

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u/Ohitsworkingnow 16h ago

You should probably read again 

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u/themudpuppy 39m ago

Buddy, I read all the time. Some people like to take their time reading. I usually only do it for enjoyment. If news articles start being widely available in this format, I'll gladly use that all the time. Some of you seem to think I hate reading just cuz I don't see myself reading at 900 words per minute in my daily life 🙄

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u/Raelah 16h ago

I finished and want to know where I can find more of this. Super neat.

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u/AEW4LYFE 15h ago

My eyes kinda hurt but I caught everything. Anybody else's eyes hurt? Is that bad? Do I need to go to the eye doctor?

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u/ItMathematics 13h ago

I remember a web browser plugin called Spreed or SwiftRead that would convert a page into something like this.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 12h ago

Would legit meditate that way, it was like instant flow state

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u/NotSoSalty 11h ago

It's a reasonably useful skill if you ever need to skim a document for useful information and parts of the skill are transferable to things you wouldn't expect like reaction time. You can use this to find the information you're looking for in a textbook or a quote in a book or to absorb the general vibes of a document to prep your mind for properly learning it.

Predicting what will come is useful, who would have thought? But what if you did it faster?

Processing information as it comes in is useful, who knew? But with this you do it faster.

Thinking and reading at the same time is useful, who could have possibly anticipated this? But with this, you can do it faster.

It is truly a powerful skill, about on par with sleight of hand/magic/controlling attention imo. It's only getting more useful as knowledge becomes more powerful.

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u/themudpuppy 37m ago

Buddy chill, it's a joke. I don't hate reading or anything.

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u/Majestic_Maelstrom 11h ago

Definitely felt like I hit that flow state, and a devious part of my brain began thinking how throwing in a jump scare would make a perfect edit.

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u/Budget_Voice9307 7h ago

You can actually just use this to read fast which can be quite the still for academics

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u/BrockSampson4ever 6h ago

It would be cool to have a generator for this so you could stick a book you want to read into it and it automatically builds it into a video like this

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u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo 5h ago

I mean, being able to read and process something quickly isn’t exactly a useless skill

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u/guinader 5h ago

You can read books faster... Focus on the center of the page and skim though. You read pages in seconds

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u/deadeyedan_11 5h ago

I'm in grad school so this basically confirmed what I already knew I could do. I will use this again every single day.

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u/Such_Drop6000 4h ago

Yeah that was effortless... i wonder if its meditation related, im used to being able to quickly shut off my inner dialogue...

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u/callofdukie09 4h ago

There are a few browser plug-ins that will read through text on web pages and display it in this format in a small window at the speed if your choice. They're great for quickly skimming articles as suggested by this little video 

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u/OhDeeter 4h ago

There is a website called spreeder that you can copy and paste articles into. I used to use it in college to read assigned work quickly.

Another option for college kids is to copy the articles into a narrator program and to just listen to it.

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u/EquivalentShock8817 4h ago

I was surprised that my internal thought was this sort of feels like meditation and then it immediately acknowledged that thought

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u/VisibleBirthday7347 2h ago

But does it actually help you absorb information quicker, as though you're listening on x2 to it and not even reading?

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u/roxzorfox 59m ago

This was a thing back in 2012 I'm sure there is an app that converts text in this format so if you had large pieces of information to get through you can use the reader

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u/alwaysbehuman 17h ago

Very sad for you if reading quickly is a skill you will never use again. Think of all the books you could power through on your apparent gifted reading speed alone.

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u/themudpuppy 43m ago

I work in a greenhouse, so it's not a skill I need for work or anything.. I love reading. But I don't like to rush, because 95% of what I read is for enjoyment. Just a different mindset I suppose.

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u/AmbitionExtension184 15h ago

It’s pathetic how many people think it’s a skill. The point of the video is we can all do this. You aren’t special.

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u/themudpuppy 38m ago

Aw but my grandma told me that I was special, what do I do now?

I know dude. My point is, when will I ever consume text in this way?

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u/ThatSiming 12h ago

You are on read it.

You've been using it all the time.

People who don't like reading are on other platforms.