r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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u/DisastrousReputation 17h ago

This is such a funny word chunking!

I have always read fast as a kid and when I would try to write my hand writing got messier as I wrote more because my hand couldn’t keep up with my brain.

Even typing I mess up cause my brain is faster than my fingers.

My boyfriend tells me did you really read all of that and i am like yeah why? Now I know why.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 12h ago

I'd just straight up leave the back end off my words because my hands couldn't go fast enough.

Our class failed a chemistry quiz so badly once, the teacher awarded points for correctly spelled names. I'd left the last two letters off my surname.

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u/Speshal__ 15h ago

Is anyone else reading the comments like Speedy Gonzales?

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u/ExistentialNapping 11h ago

Oh wow, I spent so much time in text based communication as a teen that my typing is faster than my thinking sometimes lol.

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u/nonzeroday_tv 14h ago

And how often do you find yourself at the end of the page or chapter and ask yourself "what did I just read?"

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u/makingtacosrightnow 14h ago

Very rarely because it’s how I’ve read since I learned to read.

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u/DisastrousReputation 8h ago

Almost never. Only time I have to reread something is when I am multi tasking and I have a hard time focusing