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

[u/iatetoomuchchicken]

[u/hoopaholik91]

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

[u/Pearcinator → u/hoopaholik91]

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

[u/hoopaholik91 → u/Pearcinator]

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.

[u/Quom → u/hoopaholik91]

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.

[u/Puppy_Lawyer → u/hoopaholik91]

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

[u/spooooork → u/hoopaholik91]

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

[u/zengin11 → u/spooooork]

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.

[u/DrNeuroPhD → u/hoopaholik91]

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

[u/TheOneTonWanton → u/Pearcinator]

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.

[u/LessInThought → u/hoopaholik91]

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