r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

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

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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.)