Speed Reading: 5 Apps for Android (promo)Best notes:
"I learned how to read fast. Currently, my reading speed varies between 450 and 900 WPM, depending on my familiarity with the subject matter and my state of mind."
"I compare becoming a speed reader to becoming an athlete—it takes time and practice, but the rewards are definitely worth the effort."
"the more I read, the easier and more enjoyable it became."
"The core of the book is in its exercises, chapters 4 through 8, where you will find proven techniques and practices that will significantly boost your speed and advance your comprehension."
"Speed reading, just like any other skill, requires practice and time."
"Many people mistakenly equate speed reading with masterful skimming, but this definition is wrong. Simply put, speed reading is an advanced form of reading."
"speed reading has nothing to do with skimming."
"Skimming implies skipping words, which is not a technique of true speed reading."
"The faster the students read, the more they enjoyed it."
"Slower readers tend to spend more time on each fixation—they capture less light and therefore often make more fixations per line."
"Faster readers need less time to capture light from words, take in more light per fixation, and therefore take in more words per stop and need to pause less frequently on every line."
"Scientists say that the capacity of your individual fixation can vary anywhere between 8 letterspaces to upwards of 22 letterspaces. In practical terms, that’s anywhere between one single word to a whole phrase."
"Your eyes were not only stopping, but also moving. To shift from one fixation point to the next, your eyes need to glide to the right, and this movement is called a saccade."
"During the saccade, your vision is suppressed, and your brain is busy processing the information you have just taken in during the fixation."
"Your eyes also often shift to the left to reread any text that you couldn’t fully process. This movement, which happens more than you realize, is called a regression. Some eye-tracking devices register a mean of 30 percent regressions out of all eye movements."
"The average reading speed in America is between 150 and 250 WPM. If you do the math and add up all the time for fixations, saccades, processing, and regressions, the average reader can read 3 words per second. To read 2 to 4 times faster—say, 6 to 12 words per second—speed readers must practice to increase the fixation window, while reducing regressions and the number of fixation stops per line."
"Speed readers are not just constrained by the physical aspects of reading; they must further work on reducing something called subvocalization: the inner speech that happens during reading."
"Some readers whisper or move their lips or tongue during reading. This is called mechanical subvocalization. Other readers just produce silent speech that is known only to them. This is called silent subvocalization."
"subvocalization can be useful in three particular instances: 1. To help you decode a word with an unfamiliar spelling that your visual brain doesn’t recognize 2. To help you focus when your mind starts to drift 3. To activate preexisting knowledge on the topic or a concept"
"increasing your vocabulary will undeniably aid your speed reading efforts"
"improving your vocabulary in a clever way: Look up 100 to 120 high-frequency words that appear in the books and other materials that particularly interest you. Moreover, you should look up words in the dictionary only after you finish a complete section of text such as a paragraph or a sentence."
"Before you commit to reading a book, always pause to reflect on your purpose. What are you looking to achieve? Are you reading to find new information or to verify something? Are you reading to learn or entertain yourself? Are you looking to empathize with the author or confront their perspective? Your purpose of reading will predetermine the set of techniques you’ll use."
"Below 155 WPM: You are probably losing a lot of time on fixations, regressions, and saccades, and this is great news. This is what this book is focused on. As you go through the rest of the exercises, keep track of your time and try to push yourself to go faster. Specifically, we encourage you to track your regressions and reduce the number of times you reread the text."
"Between 155 and 258 WPM: You are probably subvocalizing every single word as you read, because the average speaking speed is about the same 150 to 258 WPM. The exercises in this book will help you tackle subvocalization, and your speed will go up. Additionally, you can bolster your speed by working on widening your perceptual span and reducing regressions."
"Between 259 and 310 WPM: You are reading just above the national average and have a great platform to build upon. Chances are you read pretty well already, but you can still improve a few areas to truly enjoy effortless readi..."
"Between 311 and 443 WPM: Great job on breaking through the spoken word barrier. Unlike most readers, you don’t subvocalize every word you read."
"Between 444 and 516 WPM: Congrats! Only 5 percent of people in the world can read above 500 WPM, but it doesn’t mean you are going to stop here."
"Between 517 and 775 WPM: Thank you for joining us in this book! It is very likely that you already enjoy reading and probably do a lot of it for work or pleasure. "
"776 WPM or above: You may not know this, but you are already in a small group of really fast readers."
"If you are serious about your speed reading training and want to make it your priority, you must find time in your calendar for training."
"brain is scanning your body, focusing on the physical aspects: how tired you are, how tight your muscles are, how hungry or thirsty, hot or cold, or physically uncomfortable your body is at this moment."
"For many people, distractibility and loss of focus are learned habits."
"Books you choose for training should be in a familiar subject area."
"When studying the eye movements of faster readers, researchers noticed that their subjects fixated on groups of words at a time instead of individual words, making fewer stops per line of type. This phenomenon is called word clustering, and it’s the most effective technique for becoming a speed reader."
"Simple examples of word clusters include phrases like “in the morning,” “at the convention center,” and “of the test scores.”"
"All these phrases begin with a preposition (words like of, in, at, with, from, etc.) and end with a noun (a person, animal, or thing). In grammar, these word clusters have a name that speaks for itself—prepositional phrases; we will call them prepositional clusters."
"Fun fact: “Of” is the most frequently used preposition in the English language. Once you spot “of” in your text, know that this is the beginning of your prepositional cluster."
"Prepositional clusters are easy to spot and will give you a better sense of what’s important in the sentence and what’s secondary. For example, the main “actor” and “action” of the sentence—the subject and the verb—will never appear inside of a prepositional cluster. Words that carry the most essential meaning (subject/verb) will always be outside of the prepositional cluster."
"if you spot a definite article with a capital T, you must be certain that the subject or the main “actor” of the sentence will follow. The recognition of this sign will help you cluster words together intelligently instead of doing it by accident."
"Remember, the content doesn’t usually come from individual words, but rather from collaborations between words and their interaction with each other."
"Parafoveal vision is peripheral vision that uses the parafovea area of the retina—located between the fovea (sharp-detailed vision) and the perifovea (less-detailed peripheral vision)—and is involved in the mechanism of planning fixations."
"Because of its ability to detect shapes, the parafovea can “read” the shapes of words and clusters and make predictions about a better landing for the next eye fixation."
"remember that small improvements add up to massive differences."
"layered reading approach. This process involves three steps: inspect, read, and reflect."
"INSPECT First, take a look at the title and subtitle. Imagine what the book is about before you even crack it open. What do you think the author is trying to communicate about the topic on the cover? Next, consider the publication date."
"READ Once you’ve finished your inspection, you can start your reading journey, keeping the central ideas in mind. As you read, carry the summary of the argument with you. If the author promised to demonstrate how a concept plays out in different environments, that’s what the reader should expect to see. Effective readers always keep the author accountable for delivering on the book’s initial promise."
"REFLECT When you finish reading the book, you are not done with it yet. It’s time to revisit your tabs and reread some portions of the text."
"Some people like to keep their collection of thoughts in a catalog system like Goodreads or Evernote."
"Reflection upon the novelty of the book as well as your personal opinion is essential to your development as a reader and thinker, so please don’t skip this step."
"Palming is another great exercise that can help you reset your eyes when you read on-screen. Here’s how it’s done: 1.Warm up your hands and cup your palms 2.Close your eyes and place your cupped palms over them 3.Make sure no light is coming through between your fingers and nose 4.Open your eyes and stare at the darkness 5.Keep your eyes bathing in the darkness for 30 seconds"
"Reading isn’t something to be done once a week to check a box—it’s something to do every day in order to improve and invest in yourself. Reading is by far the most common factor that successful people across the globe share."
"To help you develop a consistent practice of speed reading, we encourage you to establish a daily reading routine: 25 pages every day. You can read more, but no less."
"One of our favorite speed reading apps slowly reveals the text to the reader, cluster by cluster, while the rest of the text is grayed out but still visible. This allows the reader to take advantage of peripheral vision and be able to divide ideas and concepts into paragraphs. This particular website is called READFA.ST,"
"Our favorite websites for book suggestions are Goodreads and a personal blog by James Clear, where he makes great fiction and nonfiction book suggestions (jamesclear.com/best-books)."
"To explore the art of reading a book on a deeper level, check out a timeless masterpiece by Mortimer J. Adler titled How to Read a Book."
"Dreiser, Theodore. The “Genius.” 1915."
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"Rayner, Keith, Elizabeth R. Schotter, Michael E. J. Masson, Mary C. Potter, and Rebecca Treiman. “So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?” SAGE Journals, January 14, 2016. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...."
"Stevens, William K. “Speed Reading Has Become a Permanent Feature of Education in America.” New York Times, September 19, 1971. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/19/ar...."
"Dr. Lois Bergman, who helped me understand the psychology of reading and decoding on a deeper level."
"Katya Seberson now owns a successful private practice in Manhattan, ExecutiveMind"
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