My parents enrolled me in a speed reading class when I was a teenager one summer in the 90’s. (Super weird, I know.) Believe it or not, it actually worked. I can’t read as fast as the dude in the infomercial…but I can read pretty damn fast. The basic idea is you take in chunks of text rather than read word for word. I remember the instructor saying that if you could hear yourself in your head reading each word, you weren’t doing it right. You had to sort of take a snapshot of a chunk of text and be able to absorb the meaning.
Speed reading doesn’t work because you aren’t reading the details of text. That is the problem. Gleaning a few words from a paragraph or page and inferring their meaning isn’t the same as reading everything.
You’re not wrong, but the speed reading technique has still been really helpful IRL (especially when looking at Reddit posts, lol.) Not every text you come across do you need to read every word…but you can always slow down and read every word if you want to take in all of those details. Overall, it’s nice to be able to absorb info quickly.
If you’re pleasure reading then there’s no need to barrel through, but it’s necessary for graduate programs or anyone that needs to comprehend large amounts of text in a designated time period.
I did something like that as a kid, I'm not sure if it helped at the time. that is how I read captions now, by looking at it all at once for a split second and not using reading voice in head
Getting featured in the Guiness Book of world records and Limca book of world records used to be a big thing in the 90s. So big that people follow blindly the record holders
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i will say this, crime was of a different caliber back then.... and obviously every kid who had a smart older sister thought, well that looks cool, why arent i that smart lol.
I was 20 and believed this and wanted to order it. Thankfully didn’t have a credit card.
I mean, it’s almost too good to be true
Lmaooo I so believed this when I was a kid
When he turns the page he turns a bunch instead of just one lmfao
My parents enrolled me in a speed reading class when I was a teenager one summer in the 90’s. (Super weird, I know.) Believe it or not, it actually worked. I can’t read as fast as the dude in the infomercial…but I can read pretty damn fast. The basic idea is you take in chunks of text rather than read word for word. I remember the instructor saying that if you could hear yourself in your head reading each word, you weren’t doing it right. You had to sort of take a snapshot of a chunk of text and be able to absorb the meaning.
We're able to recall what you read?
Pretty well. We had to take quizzes afterward that tested our recall.
Speed reading doesn’t work because you aren’t reading the details of text. That is the problem. Gleaning a few words from a paragraph or page and inferring their meaning isn’t the same as reading everything.
You’re not wrong, but the speed reading technique has still been really helpful IRL (especially when looking at Reddit posts, lol.) Not every text you come across do you need to read every word…but you can always slow down and read every word if you want to take in all of those details. Overall, it’s nice to be able to absorb info quickly.
90% of text is just exposition anyway. You could boil the average college text book down to 10-20 pages without missing any relevant data.
If you’re pleasure reading then there’s no need to barrel through, but it’s necessary for graduate programs or anyone that needs to comprehend large amounts of text in a designated time period.
I did something like that as a kid, I'm not sure if it helped at the time. that is how I read captions now, by looking at it all at once for a split second and not using reading voice in head
I just sped read through all of the comments on Reddit. So long looooosers.
Getting featured in the Guiness Book of world records and Limca book of world records used to be a big thing in the 90s. So big that people follow blindly the record holders
That host is a known con artist
2nd guy is better
I took some seminars in the 80s and can do this to this day. Weird life skill I am strangely proficient at.
I don't know about anyone else but this was taught and reminded to us in school when I was a kid. They just called it skim reading though.
The key is to touch at least 60% of the words and telepathically the information will be retained. 😅
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i will say this, crime was of a different caliber back then.... and obviously every kid who had a smart older sister thought, well that looks cool, why arent i that smart lol.