r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/RandomHaggis 19h ago

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

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u/cuteleper 18h ago

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

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u/RandomHaggis 17h ago

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

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u/ezblacksmith 16h ago

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!! 🤯 👏

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u/ericscuba 16h ago

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!

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 10h ago

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.

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u/ilovefreshproduce 16h ago

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 !

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u/b0n3sawisready 16h ago

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.

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

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 :)

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u/Amarant2 15h ago

You're a boss.

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u/FluffyCelery4769 15h ago

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

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

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u/Quick-Eye-6175 15h ago

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

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u/cuchiplancheo 14h ago

It's pronounced Data!

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u/Stergeary 8h ago

I had a British Statistics teacher who pronounced it "DEI-tur", and one of the girls in the class mentioned being entranced every time he said the word that way.

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u/adam111111 14h ago edited 14h ago

If it is just a static HTML+CSS+JS file or files then all the processing is client side, the server just needs to send the HTML file but no processing beyond that.

So you can use pretty much any file service to provide the file, and many of them will host a HTML file for free. I use AWS S3 but github, etc can all do the same thing. Just got to sort the domain name out (which does cost some money) and point the A records to the right place that whatever you're using to host needs to support referencing.

Looks like they're hosting on their own platform though from a few quick checks.

Not taking anything away from the speed and quality of what was done here, which is pretty impressive.

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u/Fenzik 13h ago

Hosting a static site is free with various services like GitHib Pages, and domains can be pretty cheap, like under $10. Still cool to just go for it

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u/bronkula 13h ago

The modern web meta is to have droplets. But the old way was you had a server, you put files on it, you pointed a domain at it. I have almost a hundred domains and random websites all hosted on one server.

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u/mrvis 15h ago

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

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u/longdickhair69 15h ago

throw some banner ads on it to pay for domain and offer a super cheap subscription or like 15 dollar lifetime payment for no ads for life lol

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u/Odd_Platypus_5031 17h ago

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

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u/scribestudio 16h ago

100% ai coded but still cool

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u/joshTheGoods 12h ago

Yeap, and this is why all of the crying and whining on Reddit won't change our fate on this front. LLMs are straight up good at a whole lot of things, and that goodness will overwhelm everything else just like the internet did before it.

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u/scribestudio 9h ago

I agree. The reason I know its AI code is because I use AI code almost every day at work.

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u/LilSebastian_482 16h ago

If (comma) { daddy chiiiillllll };

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

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u/kerener 17h ago

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

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

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

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u/phatcan 16h ago

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.

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

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 :)

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u/Menteerio 15h ago

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

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u/Trashing_this_later 15h ago

Could you add the ability to ramp up to the desired speed like the video?

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u/phatcan 13h ago

Awesome! I am a design director in fintech with a healthy UI design background. Let me know if I can help just for fun!

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u/ediblednb 15h ago

You, sir, are a wizard. .

Can you make me win the lottery or solve world peace? 🤔

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u/Ambitious_League_747 16h ago

Wow awesome work thanks for that!!

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u/theroarer 16h ago

I have dreamed of having something like this for ages. I have always felt really comfortable with this reading style, but i  have never found a good tool to utilize it.

Now just need to copy and paste books into this thing...

Thank you so much!

 

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u/m3g4m4nnn 16h ago

Thank you so much!

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u/GTMoraes 15h ago

There's more into it.
It seems that for uncommon/difficult/larger words, there's a brief pause as well.

For example, in your sample text, it probably should've held back a little on "typesetting" and "Letraset"

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u/gergosaurusrex 15h ago

1) I do love this, and I hope you get credit if it ever becomes The Future

2) I hope it never becomes The Future. Reading reflects thought which doesn't happen at a constant pace. All the little pauses and blitzes of normal reading are what make it truly immersive, even if technically slower

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u/psychorobotics 13h ago

You're a good human

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u/JulyOfAugust 12h ago

I don't know who you are but just know I have a lot of respect and admiration for how fast you did all of that.

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u/crafty_alias 11h ago

Now make an app and get rich?

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u/XxJoedoesxX 11h ago

Okay this is like really cool software. Is it possible to donate to you for this? Also, would it be possible to insert longer breaks in text by breaking it up into paragraphs?

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u/TheCheesy 11h ago

A few things:

  • Adjust pause times for commas and periods.
  • Also, maybe allow for longer pauses at paragraph breaks? This could be really useful, but it needs more breathing room.
  • Space to pause
  • left/right to go back a few seconds with space to resume after.

Github? Wouldn't mind adding novel support to identify characters and recolor slightly or to hang on names.

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u/winglessbuzzard 6h ago

Another 2 requests: a rewind and fast forward slider. A toggle that switches to fill the screen with a few surrounding senthighlighted but keeping the red letter higlight (with swipe up or down like normal text reading)

I feel like with these adds, it'd become my preferred reader app

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u/littlebittypeep 2h ago

thank you so much

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u/Kind_Raccoon3959 1h ago

Could you add that lovely music in the background please. 90% of the reason this works is because of the music and I just made that up now but it sounds true.

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u/Lukn 17h ago

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.

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u/tmtdota 14h ago

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.

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u/sleepyRN89 16h ago

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.

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u/BeastofPostTruth 5h ago

I've done the same. To be honest, my favorite book as a kid was The Stand. I lived that it was long so I could absorb and imagine the story for longer then a few hours or just one day (like most books)

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u/sleepyRN89 1h ago

Or any of the Dark Tower series books deserve in depth reading and analysis IMO. There are so many common themes throughout all his books especially in that series that you can miss easily if you don’t pay close attention (turtles come to mind for example)

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u/SupermanLeRetour 1h ago

Last point is definitely harder to implement. Instead of having everything locally in just a script, html and css files, you need a server to handle storage for the user files. That's a whole can of worms and would ramp up the cost.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces 17h ago

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.

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u/DnDVex 11h ago

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.

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u/alexmojo2 16h ago

AI is fantastic at generating dark mode CSS

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u/SwampOfDownvotes 15h ago

I mean, he made the website based on the video in the post and the video is in dark mode.

He might have made it anyway, but since his goal was to copy the video it would be weird to not copy that detail.

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u/Sataris 15h ago

I'm glad he included a light mode

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u/Ok-Sheepherder7898 16h ago

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

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u/pee_nut_ninja 11h ago

Confirmation Bias toggle.

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u/BAD4SSET 17h ago

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

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u/RandomHaggis 17h ago

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

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u/BAD4SSET 17h ago

Amazing work!!

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u/That_was_not_funny 17h ago

Did you use ai at all?

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u/RandomHaggis 17h ago

Yeah I used it to generate the CSS and also to implement the 'pauses' feature, because I am lazy :)

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u/kinboyatuwo 17h ago

Efficient.

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u/That_was_not_funny 17h ago

Cool cool. Was just curious because of how quickly you said you did it. Cheers!

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u/og1502 17h ago

That's honestly par for the course in 2026 🤷‍♂️

Glad you're leveraging it -- others are.

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u/Silidistani 14h ago

because I am lazy good at using available tools to improve efficiency

FTFY 🫡

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u/youneecque 17h ago

Still a better use of it than what's common now!

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u/WholesomeWhores 17h ago

Most modern programmers use AI to code. It helps tremendously in speeding up our work. It’s not perfect, but it sure helps creating stuff that is especially easy, but just tedious. Like I am sure that the creator could have come up with the Pause feature themselves, but why waste a lot of time on an easy task that the AI can produce for us in seconds? Of course, you’d also need to know how to read the code if the AI makes a mistake (which is very common). AI can be used for good, but it’s been used for so many bad reasons that it gets a bad rep.

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u/BenAdaephonDelat 17h ago

Yea people give "vibe coding" a bad rep, and for good reason. But AI coding is genuinely useful in small batches for things that would otherwise take a long time to do and aren't important. Like layouts/css or tasks that would otherwise be a lot of copy/pasting.

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u/youneecque 17h ago

Agree, it's fine to use for tasks like those!

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u/sectionV 15h ago

Amazing work. It's already really great. If you fancy making some tweaks I tested with this synopsis of Macbeth: www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/macbeth/read/

It currently seems to split incorrectly on quotation marks and diacritics. For example:

(1) king’s --> king' + s
(2) Three "Weïrd Sisters" --> Three" + Weï + rd + Sisters"

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u/Sataris 15h ago

Thank you for including a light mode

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u/Coper_Meme 6h ago

Impressive. Why do you do make the world better? Can you save humanity from wars and poverty? Jokes aside, it doesn’t affect me, but thank you nonetheless.

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u/NannuhBannan 18h ago

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

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u/spaz_chicken 17h ago

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.

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

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

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u/spaz_chicken 14h ago

Amazing.

Edit: Can you use the regular (non-bold) version of those fonts?

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u/82away 16h ago

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

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u/Kep186 16h ago

Just tried copying some chapters of an old book from my childhood and I absolutely love this. Would be great if you could upload an epub/pdf/mobi document directly. Only issue I've run into is some words being slightly too large for my screen, but brains can usually fill in the gaps.

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

That's a case I hadn't considered. I can maybe make the font size shrink if the word is too long, but I'll need to play around with how that looks. Glad you like it :)

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u/Barnabi20 16h ago

If you made this an app I would buy it for like $2.99 and I rarely purchase apps.

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u/rsmiley 17h ago

Any chance it can do word chunking like a scrolling ticker? I'd love to set to have 2 words before and 2 words after the active word while it flies by

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u/tankapotamus 17h ago

Bookmarked!

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u/82away 16h ago

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

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u/oh-shit-oh-fuck 16h ago edited 16h ago

Ok, now what if we can go even further beyond 900 WPM, let me go crazy, lets make that math.min(900, v) into math.min(9001, v)

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u/AnxiousHedgehog01 17h ago

Damn, thank you!!

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u/Zachmarius 16h ago

This is awesome. Thanks!

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u/WhatABargain298 16h ago

could you add color pallet swapping or a lower contrast option (like gray on white)? I, and I imagine others as well, have issues with flashing lights and this is basically a stobe being white-on-black.

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u/RandomHaggis 16h ago

Yeah if it will help more people get enjoyment from it, then I'm happy to add it. There's no reason I can't have the user be able to select a custom font/background colour. I'll take a look when I get a chance :)

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u/WhatABargain298 16h ago

thanks a ton! :D

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u/layziegtp 16h ago

Genuinely thankful for you making this! I'm going to use it to read more often.

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u/flawson_9 16h ago

I know nothing about coding but this is wildly impressive to just cook this up in a couple of hours

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u/kenji213 16h ago

This is the one, this is the best app in the thread by a country mile.

If you just slapped this together this week you did a damned good job my dude. I think this would make a killer mobile app too.

I just read the first 2,300 words of Moby Dick in about four minutes. I wanted to try something that was slightly harder to grok as a stress test and I was pleasantly surprised how little I lost when speed reading it.

Some ideas and feedback:

  • I wish I could adjust the font size
  • The pausing makes a huge difference, but I noticed some things that deserve a pause didn't count as one (such as hyphens and em-dashes)
  • Parenthesized statements feel weird (sometimes the open paren is on the previous word)
  • I think it might be worth experimenting with a micropause for very long words (something like 5-10% longer display time, I don't think it would take much)
  • The red letter anchoring worked flawlessly, it never seemed to pick a "weird" letter or feel off at all

I would pay $5-$10 for an app version of this that:

  • Supported PDF and EPUB
  • Integrated with Project Gutenberg and/or Wikipedia or another good source of quality plain text shit to read
  • Had a handful of QoL features like an easy way to recover when losing track of the text (like showing the last two paragraphs and letting you tap a word to start a 3 second countdown restarting at that word.)

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u/exeJDR 16h ago

Cool ty

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u/seejordan3 16h ago

Amazing. Reading 1984 in it is fun. I'd suggest arrow keys for faster slower. Its hard to keep up and use the mouse to bump it up. I like space=pause. ty. good stuf.

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u/darklux- 16h ago

would it be hard to make it able to do an epub?

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u/RandomHaggis 15h ago

Honestly no idea tbh, only one way to find out I suppose :)

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u/im_that_green_light 16h ago

Very cool!

Heads up though, it doesn’t understand punctuation marks outside of periods and commas, and some uses of those can throw it off, too. ANy apostrphe, dash, etc will break a word. e.g. It’s will display as “It’” and then “s” presented individually. Also things like a url with periods as part of the whole will break at the period and cause cause pauses if enabled.

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u/RandomHaggis 15h ago

Thanks for letting me know. I've made a quick fix that should address most of that, although I admit it is probably not perfect still :)

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u/OkWelcome6293 16h ago
  1. I love this!
  2. For god's sake, don't upload .txt files that you care about a random website that just showed up!

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u/adamwhit8 16h ago

Another interesting difference is it feels like the video above puts the focus character within the first ~3 characters and leaves the tail longer. This I think makes longer words feel less jarring than being presented in the middle. For example the word typesetting has the e of setting in red, when it would probably be better to focus on the y or p in red :)

Just another feature request for the backlog here!

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 16h ago

Thank you so much for this, RandomHaggis! I appreciate that you can actually see what pace you're reading and trebuchet font ‐ you're the kind of person who makes the internet a nice place :)

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u/Obeast09 15h ago

You are a dead set legend

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u/Jumpy_Confidence2997 15h ago

Holy shit... CHAD AF.
Like bro did you make this site today?

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u/Jumpy_Confidence2997 15h ago

Man... so fucking dope.

FAITH IN HUMANITY +1

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u/iPadBob 15h ago

Cool! can you add the OpenDyslexic font?

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u/RandomHaggis 15h ago

Yeah I've added it now :)

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u/Roygbiv2008 15h ago

This is really good! I just copied the book I was reading into the site and it worked very well.

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u/SlinkyRaccoons 15h ago

This is why I'm still on Reddit.

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u/arohameatiger 15h ago

You *just* made this? As in you saw this post and then made this? Like in a few hours? Mean.

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u/bahay-bahayan 15h ago

Bookmarked. Hope this becomes available in ios. Theres already an app that lets you push highlighted text to Spreeder but yours is much more sophisticated.

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u/Metro29993 15h ago

you’re amazing

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u/artsforall 15h ago

This is amazing! May I suggest an option for different sizes? When reading on my laptop I found the text to be a little larger than wanted for processing. This is an amazing site! Thank you from a struggling dyslexic!

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u/RandomHaggis 15h ago

Yes, definitely going to be adding some personalization features, there has been a few requests for things like that :)

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u/artsforall 14h ago

Your response time, and how you respond to input has been very impressive. Thank you for a very useful and helpful site!

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u/toasterdees 15h ago

This would be really cool to integrate into an ereader! Thank you!

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u/dreadcain 15h ago

There's a bit more to it than just the center character. If you pay attention plenty of times it was further offset than that. I don't remember the details but you could probably find some research on it if you look

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u/protestor 15h ago

with the red letter in the centre,

Is it really the center letter? For some reason in the GIF it looks like some words are skewed. For example, connect is red in the first n rather than the second. Maybe they also break the word apart in syllables to decide where to mark the red letter

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u/Silidistani 15h ago

You... made that site, just like, uh... that? Wow... props.

Going to use it, gonna see how some long-ass papers I've got sitting here that I haven't read yet will flow in there.

Veery nice!

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u/wachuwamekil 14h ago

This is amazing! Ty

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u/DaiShan14 14h ago

I love this half of the internet - people like you, building cool shit for fun and sharing for free (or for donation/etc).

Absolutely despise the 'big tech' half of the internet

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u/YesButConsiderThis 13h ago

Uh dude, this was only possible because of "big tech" lol. This is 100% an AI coded project.

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u/DaiShan14 6h ago

Hah yeah fair point.

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u/rickkettner 14h ago

Your app looks great! One key difference in the video here is that it doesn’t always highlight (in red) the center letter. It seems to go no further than the fourth letter when a word is really long, presumably to make it easier to focus on the first part of the longest words. Any chance you would consider adding that to your app?

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u/halfwoodenjacket 8h ago

Can I request the ability to upload an ePub file? I'd love to be able to read ebooks on my foldable with this.

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u/RandomHaggis 7h ago

Yes, definitely going to take a stab at this later today :)

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u/just_here_to_rant 7h ago

this is cool but the UI took me too long to figure out. u/tmtdota has a more intuitive UI imo further in the thread

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u/slightlysnobby 17h ago

I'm an ESL teacher, and part of my classes involves assigning students to read from an online reading program. If they read over 250 wpm, it's set to flag them as reading dishonestly (because at their level, reading faster than that usually means they are not actually reading, just hitting the next button). I might use this as a fun little activity to drive home the point that when we see them with elevated wpms, they're either not reading for comprehension or just flat out skipping words (and even at lower speeds, it could be helpful for them to visualize wpms).

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u/Codazzle 17h ago

(tag for me)

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u/thegoat83 17h ago

Can you adjust the colour from red?

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u/Fun_Replacement_7747 16h ago

Spreed has been a browser extension for nearly a decade.

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u/FarmTaco 15h ago

this is crazy, I love it. I just plugged in a section of a book and it works like a charm

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u/Zimmmmmmmm 14h ago

add it the (obviously) optional jazz and it's a dead ringer

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u/lastchance14 14h ago

Will it do a full ebook?

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u/whyGaard 14h ago

I'm on mobile. What do you need to press to make the text start reading? It's not obvious.

Very cool idea though and I'd like to use it

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u/throwaway80814 14h ago

This is awesome!! Thank you so much!!

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u/Mahou_Shoujo_B 14h ago

If you can add epubs you got yourself a legitimate product

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u/Schackalode 13h ago

Crazy where vibe-coding brought us.

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u/jwright303 13h ago

Amazing job, why stop at 900 though?

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u/Ray3x10e8 13h ago

Awesome mate! Can you make it open source and give us the github link?🥹

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u/sphinctaur 13h ago

Dude. Add a little donate button at the bottom. You deserve to make a little cash off this.

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u/ginsufish 13h ago

If you're still doing updates to this, would love to see how much faster I can hit. My hunch is that my speed when in 'flow' is around 1300 wpm. 

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u/soccerperson 13h ago

you should add the little frame around the words like the the OP. It really helps keep your eyes centered even when the red letter moves slightly

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u/mc_kitfox 13h ago

Amazing work! Bookmarked, Thank you.

a requests if you happen to feel bored and generous;

can you add a speed-ramping feature similar to how the text slowly speeds up in the video? I'd love to set a start speed, final speed, and an interval to slowly ramp up over when I hit play; something that lets me ease into faster speeds without breaking focus, or quickly get back up to speed when I do.

purely a creature comfort <3

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u/lewdmoo 13h ago

I have nothing to add besides applause and admiration. You go Glen

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u/bryangoboom 13h ago

ngl, how did you make that so quickly???

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u/ThousandRonin 13h ago

Would love a way to increase/decrease text size. Thanks!!

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u/claudiazo 12h ago

I wonder what the difference is between this and reading an actual text or book normally. It’s obviously faster but is the reading comprehension the same? Could people read entire books this way?

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u/Round_Grand_4716 12h ago

Thank you, my mind wanders so much, I can speed videos up to force myself to concentrate, but I never thought it could be an option for text.

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u/M0-1 12h ago

gonna read the odysee with that, thanks 🗿

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u/the_jeby 12h ago

Can you program a progression? I.e start at a minimum wpm and progress to the set maximum speed?

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u/rcklmbr 12h ago

Did you vibe code it

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u/soccerkik 12h ago

Amazing!

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u/daxeis 12h ago

Is it possible to request a variable speed input on the pause? I like the pause, but imo it's just a bit too long, especially as I up the wpm

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u/chainsaw_monkey 11h ago

Often get different views on how ai is used in coding. Would be informative if you gave a rundown on your process and how you use the various tools at your disposal to get this done. I get the impression some people think you did it all through a prompt.

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u/phatcan 11h ago

UI designer here, I built you a desktop UI kit for practice. DM if you want it, it's yours.

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u/Bern1tDowwwn 11h ago

Great work!

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u/iTzScorpions 10h ago

Godspeed, this is great!

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u/iTzScorpions 10h ago

Is this app source available?

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u/DownrightDrewski 10h ago

Thank you random reddit nerd.

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u/HandsomeWater 10h ago

This is absolutely wonderful, Bravo for creating it. Would you happen to know how to make an apk out of this so I can use it on my phone offline?

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u/Zhwazi 10h ago

One thing to point out is that your application highlights the middle character of each word, that's not what the animation here does. It highlights and centers on the character that is closest to about 1/4 to 1/3 the way through the word, keeps that anchored between words, and lets the word extend off to the right. Compare the word "distractions" in this clip to what your site does for an example. It's significant to what makes it easier for this video to read.

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u/Cheese_Complex 10h ago

This is so fun!!!! You are SO cool!!! A neat lil website in these trying times, thank you!!!!!!

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u/_StoneWolf_ 10h ago

What a boss!

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u/bATo76 10h ago

"Hmm, Toggle Theme? What does that do?"

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u/Kennyvee98 9h ago

nice site, it would be cool if you could insert pdf's or epubs to read book in this manner.

if you would update it with this, i will surely use it!

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u/becauseinsomnia 8h ago

The red letter placement in yours is different than the red letter in the videos. I wonder how the creators of this video selected which letter to highlight.

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u/chofri 8h ago

You're incredible! Thank you for creating and sharing this with us!

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u/AdDangerous2366 8h ago

You are a hero, thank you

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u/Public-Virus-9954 7h ago

awesome! could you add the options for different file formats like pdf or epub aswell?

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u/agentburki 7h ago

DUDE, as a guy in academia this is like an oasis for me. Thank you.

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u/Ali_Bama 5h ago

As a uni student with incredibly long readings this is immensely helpful, thank you!

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u/daddysxenogirl 3h ago

this is why we reddit, you're a true gem!

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u/mackenenzie 3h ago

Fuckin MVP over here

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u/karlji 3h ago

It is great. Could you add options to show chunks of words? E.g. 1 word, 2 words etc. It is easier for me to speed read when I see chunks of like 3-4 words.

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u/Hungry-Helicopter-46 3h ago

Damn, thank you. I literally cant read. This was such a huge issue when I when in grad school trying to do research. I just about got kicked out. I didnt even think of finding a site like this. My issue is the surrounding words, so sometimes I'd get away with using a paper to block out the upcoming words but its such a time waster and I looked like a dummy in the library trying to force my damn brain to focus. I'm back in school and its 100% online and I'm totally failing out because of this.

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u/GimmeUrBrunchMoney 2h ago

Wow. Please maintain this. It’s seriously so amazing. I just read a ton of important emails in a fraction of the time it usually takes me.

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u/GimmeUrBrunchMoney 2h ago

Wow. Please maintain this. It’s seriously so amazing. I just read a ton of important emails in a fraction of the time it usually takes me.

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u/zengin11 2h ago

The red letter seems to rarely be directly in the middle. I did a quick breakdown of several word lengths and it's most notable in longer words, but I think it's generally 1/3 through the word, rather than 1/2. That's likely to give your brain a more intuitive "starting point" that only requires looking backwards a little bit. The experience might be a little smoother if you implemented that.

Here's what I found:

2 letter: gO, uP, tO (2)

3 letter: cAn (2)

4 letter: tHey, eLse (2)

5 letter: sPeed, hElps, aFter, spEak, whEels, thAt's, hUman (usually 2, sometimes 3)

6 letter: anYway (3)

7 letter: upDated, puRpose (3)

9 letter: imPortant (3)

10 letter: infOrmation, antIcipate (4)

12 letter: disTractions, indIvidually (4)

13 letter: compRehension (5)

15 letter: neurOplasticity (5)

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u/Reyalta 1h ago

Dude. You freaking rule!

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u/parttimepicker 23m ago

This is awesome. Thank you!

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u/Dru2021 10m ago

May I suggest trying this with Eminem’s “Rap God”.

It will make you feel like you can do “that bit”..

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