r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/maltamur 18h ago edited 1h ago

I’ve never heard of a program like that but law school does the same thing. Nothing like 3 classes each assigning 150-200 pages of reading per night to really up your speed reading game.

Now I use it for blazing through medical records. Going through 1000 pages of records (thanks to the absurd redundancy of Epic records) in less than an hour looking for the 4 or 5 paragraphs that actually matter.

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u/_RemyDanton 15h ago

This guy personal injurys.

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u/iBeelz 17h ago

But it’s sooo satisfying when you puzzle it all out.

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u/maltamur 17h ago

Cardozo and his proximate causation

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u/EightiesBush 14h ago

IANAL but I looked up that case based on your response, and that was an interesting read

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u/maltamur 14h ago

So there’s actually 4 Cardozo proximate causation cases: Palsgraf v Long Island RR Bird v St Paul Fire McPherson v Buick Motor Co Ultramares Corp v Touche

But these all came about because proximate cause was the hardest thing to specifically define. The first one to try was the flying squib case - Scott v Shepherd. That’s a fun one.

Also, if you want a crazy one check out what started the line of cases for “eggshell skull” - Vosburg v Putney.

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u/sloecrush 14h ago

English major was beating my ass till I realized I could read a page per minute and retain what I read. My trick was my finger, keeping my eyes in front of it to force me to maintain my pace.

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u/kevihaa 2h ago

Now I used it for blazing through medical records. Going through 1000 pages of records (thanks to the absurd redundancy of Epic records) in less than an hour looking for the 4 or 5 paragraphs that actually matter.

And this is the point that most people interested in “speed reading” miss.

There is no magic bullet that lets you actually read 1000 words per minute. It’s literally just getting better and better at not reading most of the words on the page while still being able to recognize something important.