In order to read, the eye has to stop at a part of the text, this is called fixation. Claims that you can read a book as fast as you can flip through a phone book are completely impossible on anatomical and neurological levels.įirst we have anatomical reasons to throw out absurdly high reading rates. Some speed reading claims can be tossed aside immediately. Is It Possible to Read 20,000+ Words Per Minute? Now, nearly a decade later, I decided to do some in-depth research into speed reading to bring you the facts. That meant comprehension, not speed, was the bottleneck I was trying to improve. My reading diet had switched from lighter self-help, to denser and more academic writing.
In addition to seeing some flickers of research that made me suspicious about speed reading programs, I had mostly stopped using the techniques I originally advocated. Since that time, I’ve had some lingering doubts about speed reading. I didn’t have any solid scientific research to back my experiments.
When I wrote the piece, I based the article purely on my personal experience along with the how-to books I had read. I found I was able to increase my reading speed from 450 word per minute to 900 in the drills, so I published an article entitled, Double Your Reading Rate, which has since become one of the most popular on this website. Seven years ago, I read some books and articles on speed reading and started practicing some of the methods.
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