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Speed reading and subvocalization

Speed reading is not just about reading faster. It's about learning to use much more of the extraordinary powers of the mind.

Free online flash metronome for exercise "speed reading is not magic". Full version you can see here ...

As you read this line, think about what is going on in  your mind.  Stop read.

Were you saying the words silently to yourself as you read?  This habit of saying the words to yourself while you read is called "subvocalization".  While this habit in itself is not the sole cause of slow reading. The "small, still voice" we hear while reading (subvocalization), is natural and is required for all reading below 900 words per minute. The average college graduate reads "basic" level of difficulty material at 250-300 words per minute, with 70% comprehension, therefore they subvocalize until they reach speed reading, which begins at 900 wpm.

Place the text before yourself and give yourself the command execute this instruction clearly and dynamic.

Let start to read using metronome online training?

  1. Do two frication of eyes on each line of the text. One click of metronome - one eyes jump! Work in this mode 1-2 minutes.
  2. Adjust velocity of the metronome upper. Continue to execute the task. First time the rate of metronome seem to be very high. Through several seconds (through how much?) you will sense that the rate was slow. Your mind adapts for current task and ready for the next task.
  3. Make the rate upper! Try to move your eyes by waveform path. Notice the times of brain adapting. What else you noticed?
  4. Allow yourself to move your eyes like you want. Switch off the metronome and read. Do you notice changing in reading strategy?
  5. Continue exercise before appearance of weariness. Be honestly, nobody did not die from weariness. From exhaustion - do, but not from weariness! You can read little bit more. But exhaustion in nearest several minutes we do not threaten, not truth :)?
  6. The Rest for you will become in cutting up the text on three perpendicular strips. Place the piece before yourself. Make the one-inch blanks between the strips.
  7. Read quickly. The more speed-reading then more understanding. Soon you will not notice the space between the strips.
  8. Shift central strip in any order. Creating the brain maximum inconvenience. Let the works for brain! Feel the eases.
  9. Pack the strips in initial order. Read the text. What do you feel? Is it easy?

Say yourself thank you! It is necessary to do business with yourself with care. The brain can good adapt for new condition.

You see, the maximum speaking rate is 400 words per minute.    If you say the words to yourself (even silently) as you read, you will never be able to read any faster than the maximum speaking rate.  This is known as the "subvocalization barrier".

The Speed Reading software can increases your mental processing speed to the point of "synchronization" and breaking the subvocalization barrier, it can also help you attain speeds far beyond what was once considered possible.

Try to use a pointer for stop vocalization

Using the point of a finger, or the end of a bookmark, can rapidly increase your average words per minute. However, using a pointer in the wrong way can significantly decrease your average words per minute. Do not trace under every word with your pointer. Furthermore, it helps avoid re-reading passages, because your pointer will not allow you to return to previous phrases. Rather, trace down the center of the text. This helps train your eye to stay towards the center of the page, and helps decrease points of fixation.   Train yourself to keep your eyes on or near your pointer, and don't let them return to previous lines.  This also assists in comprehension, because completing paragraphs sooner allows the entire paragraph to `glom' while in short-term memory.

 

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When we first learn to read, we tend to speak the words out loud. Some readers never truly lose that habit and even if they don’t speak out loud, continue to vocalize the words in their minds. The average speaker talks at 280 words per minute. Therefore if you sub-vocalize every word, this will put a break on how fast you can read. The best way to prevent this is to develop a wider eye span.

 



 

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By using Speed reading software, you can improve facilities of speed reading. You needn't practice special exercises; it is just enough to read and periodical practice. Look at free online speed reading trainings. All text contain 50% of garbage.
> Remove 50% of letters and you will read the text. Try to understand this simply idea and you speed reading will up. Human mind read the words as china hieroglyph. You can mix the letters and read the text. Try to understand this simply idea and you speed reading will up. You can read the text by groups of words. If you strips the text you can also read the text. The speed reading will by up if you wide the span eyes. Use the full version of speed reading software "Speed reading is not magic".
Habitually returning to what is already read, that usually decreases the speed of reading, no longer happens. Reading each word individually becomes unnecessary because skillful fast readers do not individualize the text when reading at high speeds. 
You become accustomed to grasping a whole word or a group of words at one glance. In this way you activate your peripheral vision facilities. You study how to read without haste, because the program responds to the speed you have chosen and does not react to your haste. The "Magic Speed Reading" inclues 15 different computerized trainings.
>  Speed reading is not magic :)