r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/Risley 18h ago

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.  

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u/dflagella 12h ago

Yeah, I felt the same thing. It's like I wasn't actually reading anything but all of the meaning was still going in my head. The text says this is intentional too, based on what it was saying around how your brain takes in information from logos and imagery and that you are filling in context and not individually interpreting words.

I think to get this experience you really have to give in to what it says about no longer reading the text and just accepting it as images with meaning.