Notaproblem. I used to read at 20-30 thousand WPM with 90% comprehension, but that was when I was young and neuroplasticity was high. Now I’m old and slow and can only do 15K max. And if there’s pictures I can comprehend faster.
Gettin’ old and slow sucks.
Easy! But then the memsahib’s always saying “you can’t have read that already” . . .
All the way, although I did miss an odd word or 2 at the end. Cool vid!
I am retired will be 70 soon, but I learned speed reading early and it never left me. I was able to read all of that. I also read books and articles often sometimes spending more time on them.
I did bery wr
ELL but I’m 76. We need to get 5th graders reading this fast
Isn’t this much more interesting content than fucking cat pics and vids?
Are you asking me?
Don’t know what to tell ya Nemo.
After 20 years of blogging and working the shift I do, sometimes I don’t feel like spending a bunch of time looking for content.
No, I love watching cats mate on video.
As for the speed reading, i was able to keep up all of the way to the end.
Learned speed reading in jr high It allowed me to scan long legal bs documents and technical material and left me time to slow down for the really tricky parts. If the young are not exposed to this they are going to be behind the curve
The early part was piece of cake, but that 900 words per minute I was losing about 20% of te words. Always been an avid reader but comprehending and RETAINING is beginning to be a problem.
I’ve been an avid reader all my life. At the very end, my comprehension might have suffered a small amount but I caught almost every word.
That was interesting. Coming back here, I can feel the difference having to scan across the page. Not profound, but it’s there. Also explains (no surprise) why my typing sucks. At best I can do maybe 25 WPM with no errors. No way my fingers can keep up with my brain. Brain gets frustrated and leaves words out. Gets pissed when it goes back to proof reed.
I taught myself speed reading when I was nine. I had a teacher in seventh grade that kept claiming I couldn’t possibly have read my assignment that fast even though I was acing the comprehension tests. The principal’s son was in my class and we were friends. I pointed him to the same books I read in order to learn speed reading and he successfully taught himself. When there were two of us doing it and the other was the principal’s son, she finally had to shut up about it.
The skill has been invaluable over the years. BTW I had to push myself above about 750 wpm but I made it to the end.
It would be tough if the music drowned out the narration.
Or was the narration in my head? Sounded like a damn auctioneer towards the end…
No actual narration, just your own internal voice. Congratulations, though, you have one. Many people do not, and those of us that can have internal dialogue think way different than internal mutes.
I was experiencing the same, and realized during the demonstration, just as the literature advised, that shutting off the internal verbalization, and simply recognizing the words improved my performance and comprehension.
They taught speed reading in the grade school I went to, back-in-the-dark-ages, because JFK was a speed reader. We didn’t have the benefit of the red letter to focus on. We then had to take a comprehension test at the end of the ‘lesson.’ We were also taught ‘sight reading’ instead of phonetics in the beginning. Which led to a whole bunch of kids that really couldn’t sound out the words or, just as importantly, spell.
He had to be, not much time in between women.
True, that.
Yeah I did pretty well. seems like the text told us it is okay to miss a few words near the end, and I did, but got the general point.
I did learn to speed read back when working for GM, they paid for the training.
the truth is it is TAXING as heck to read at those ultra high rates i mean exhausting. one word at a time at high speed for two minutes is no big deal.
Thanks for the posting.
I am a massive SF fan, and grew up reading my folk’s libraries of classic books. Major problem – by time I was 10 or so I could blitz through 200 pages in an evening.
Had no problem with this. It’s fun.
I’m 76 and I got all the way through. I can say I got every word but the meaning was clear and coherent.
Interestingly enough, it appears an advanced vocabulary has a detrimental effect on some of this. The decision of which similarly spelled words was presented causes the brain to review, and analyze, reducing attention, then increasing the frequency of missed words.
I need someone to produce an app that does this to E-books, with a dial to fine tunes the rate of presentation. I could kill a lot of literature in a short amount of time with such a thing.
Dammit, I’ll never get that 33 seconds back from that grifter.
That one burgundy letter is the distraction during the test.
Notaproblem. I used to read at 20-30 thousand WPM with 90% comprehension, but that was when I was young and neuroplasticity was high. Now I’m old and slow and can only do 15K max. And if there’s pictures I can comprehend faster.
Gettin’ old and slow sucks.
Easy! But then the memsahib’s always saying “you can’t have read that already” . . .
All the way, although I did miss an odd word or 2 at the end. Cool vid!
I am retired will be 70 soon, but I learned speed reading early and it never left me. I was able to read all of that. I also read books and articles often sometimes spending more time on them.
I did bery wr
ELL but I’m 76. We need to get 5th graders reading this fast
Isn’t this much more interesting content than fucking cat pics and vids?
Are you asking me?
Don’t know what to tell ya Nemo.
After 20 years of blogging and working the shift I do, sometimes I don’t feel like spending a bunch of time looking for content.
No, I love watching cats mate on video.
As for the speed reading, i was able to keep up all of the way to the end.
Learned speed reading in jr high It allowed me to scan long legal bs documents and technical material and left me time to slow down for the really tricky parts. If the young are not exposed to this they are going to be behind the curve
The early part was piece of cake, but that 900 words per minute I was losing about 20% of te words. Always been an avid reader but comprehending and RETAINING is beginning to be a problem.
I’ve been an avid reader all my life. At the very end, my comprehension might have suffered a small amount but I caught almost every word.
That was interesting. Coming back here, I can feel the difference having to scan across the page. Not profound, but it’s there. Also explains (no surprise) why my typing sucks. At best I can do maybe 25 WPM with no errors. No way my fingers can keep up with my brain. Brain gets frustrated and leaves words out. Gets pissed when it goes back to proof reed.
I’m just gonna put this here
Chris (CIII)
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I taught myself speed reading when I was nine. I had a teacher in seventh grade that kept claiming I couldn’t possibly have read my assignment that fast even though I was acing the comprehension tests. The principal’s son was in my class and we were friends. I pointed him to the same books I read in order to learn speed reading and he successfully taught himself. When there were two of us doing it and the other was the principal’s son, she finally had to shut up about it.
The skill has been invaluable over the years. BTW I had to push myself above about 750 wpm but I made it to the end.
It would be tough if the music drowned out the narration.
Or was the narration in my head? Sounded like a damn auctioneer towards the end…
No actual narration, just your own internal voice. Congratulations, though, you have one. Many people do not, and those of us that can have internal dialogue think way different than internal mutes.
I was experiencing the same, and realized during the demonstration, just as the literature advised, that shutting off the internal verbalization, and simply recognizing the words improved my performance and comprehension.
They taught speed reading in the grade school I went to, back-in-the-dark-ages, because JFK was a speed reader. We didn’t have the benefit of the red letter to focus on. We then had to take a comprehension test at the end of the ‘lesson.’ We were also taught ‘sight reading’ instead of phonetics in the beginning. Which led to a whole bunch of kids that really couldn’t sound out the words or, just as importantly, spell.
He had to be, not much time in between women.
True, that.
Yeah I did pretty well. seems like the text told us it is okay to miss a few words near the end, and I did, but got the general point.
I did learn to speed read back when working for GM, they paid for the training.
the truth is it is TAXING as heck to read at those ultra high rates i mean exhausting. one word at a time at high speed for two minutes is no big deal.
Thanks for the posting.
I am a massive SF fan, and grew up reading my folk’s libraries of classic books. Major problem – by time I was 10 or so I could blitz through 200 pages in an evening.
Had no problem with this. It’s fun.
I’m 76 and I got all the way through. I can say I got every word but the meaning was clear and coherent.
Interestingly enough, it appears an advanced vocabulary has a detrimental effect on some of this. The decision of which similarly spelled words was presented causes the brain to review, and analyze, reducing attention, then increasing the frequency of missed words.
I need someone to produce an app that does this to E-books, with a dial to fine tunes the rate of presentation. I could kill a lot of literature in a short amount of time with such a thing.
Dammit, I’ll never get that 33 seconds back from that grifter.
That one burgundy letter is the distraction during the test.