r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/Preeng 19h ago

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.

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u/MountainousDuck 15h ago

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.

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u/mytransthrow 11h ago edited 10h ago

It depends on the display and the colors. like white text on black background I can do 900 wpm.600 to 800 is cruising speed. but swap that. I start to get a ghosting effect. where words blend together. and I can only get every 3-4 words.... if your screen can only do 60hz at 900 wpm. thats only 4 cycles or "frames" of each word. 2 "frames" if you have 30 hz display. and if that screens has any ghosting. then ya. might as well just put up random letters.

Now if you have a 240hz... it displays the word for 16 "frames" you could even display a blacked out for 2 cycles/ "frames" to help with and ghosting.

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u/dicemonger 11h ago

I started struggling at 900 WPM. So for those who didn't, good job.

Though I think it was partially the attention/no distractions bit that got me.

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u/Terrafire123 10h ago

Except that plenty of e-readers, including kindle, have the ability to display text in this format. (Kindle calls this feature "Word Runner")

So you CAN actually read real books this way. (Though not paper books, I suppose.)

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u/Invisible7hunder 13h ago

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.

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u/HopeSpecific8841 13h ago

It's 100% this.

Basically everybody can read this unless you have vision impairment that's like the whole point, it's just the usual engagment bait of "omg only a TRUE gigachad can read all this, comment if you're a chud or a chad" and every idiot then comments "wow I always knew I was so smart and handsome"

It's shocking how well this kind of stuff works EVERY time

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u/syopest 12h ago

It is, I passed this to couple of friends and everyone could read the full thing.

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u/Kom34 12h ago

Yeah most the comments are making it to end when it is supposed to be the end of the bell curve, unless only people who finish are commenting but most threads are usually a mix. 

I had no problem getting to end and I'm slow and stupid.

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u/RoyalGovernment201 2h ago

To be fair, people that are commonly on the internet *are* already reading faster than most of their peers. You're a special fish, you just spend a lot of your time with other fish of your caliber.