How To Speed Read

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Improve your efficiency by learning how to read up to three times faster with these proven speed-reading techniques.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Discipline
Practice

Step 1: Skim

Skim an entire article, chapter, or even book before you begin reading. Take in the title, introduction, any subheadings, and bold-type passages, so that when you start reading, you'll already know the selection's main points.

Step 2: Let your finger do the walking

Lead with your index finger, a pen, or your computer mouse, which keeps your eyes focused and moving ahead. This prevents them from darting around re-reading words, something the average person does to the tune of 20 words per page.

Tip: Move your pointer at a faster rate than you think you can read, which will retrain your brain by forcing you to keep up.

Step 3: Shut up!

Stop "sounding out" each word in your head, or mouthing the words silently, two things many of us learned to do in grade school. U.S. Air Force research shows your brain can recognize a word in less than five-hundredths of a second, while it takes a quarter of a second—five times longer—to say it in your head.

Step 4: "Chunk"

Learning not to sound out words will help you "chunk"—a technique that requires you to group together four or five words by skipping articles like "the" and "and." You'll still get the meaning, since these words aren't needed for comprehension.

Step 5: Keep going

Train yourself to stop taking a short pause after each paragraph, something most of us do unconsciously.

Tip: When reading a passage on a computer screen, try highlighting the text in a dark color and changing the font color to white. Your eyes can more easily read white words on a dark background.

Step 6: Practice

Practice these techniques for at least 20 minutes a day, starting with books and articles printed in large fonts. As you practice, you'll learn how to prioritize content, speeding you along even more.

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[T3RRQR]

"You'll need discipline and..." *hits x*

[TIPAWEEK]

@qwerty1234569479 Calm down fag. While speed reading you see more, he would see 'not' lol. here's a random fact lol, the human brain can tell a persons mood with just a flash of seeing the person(literally a couple milliseconds). You're not necessarily reading word for word, your brain is much quicker than that. Dammit I can't even explain this to you.

[uwdawgs98]

1:42 colt mccoy 

[Tyrisas]

got my exams.. this is a perfect speed-reading period :p

[EMalkin71luver]

@shelby0508 yaeh its cool i konw ha i do tihs to my ferinds aolt

[StereoHeartSinger]

optional: a book or article

[shelby0508]

fun fact: as long as the first and last letters are the same any mix of words can be read (ex.tihs is porof taht it dsenot mtater waht the odrer of the wdros are)

[sogroov3]

I just read downwards.

[Blackops1351]

i thought the red book said gay



[SytexSystem]

I decided to make a speed reading video, just cause you make people sit through that ad... please dont be a 'waste your time cast', even TV has 10 minutes of programming before they make you sit through an ad...

[gunninlinguist]

Did you know? JFK was a dirty liar and a fool. Anyway I heard George Dubya read a book a week. Got through to the entire Mr Men collection in less than a year...

[Anth0ny605]

how the hell did i get here... o.0