Flipping the text while reading
My best friend whit from college was visiting, and we were playing Lunar Silver Star
Story-2 together.
What got irritating was going into towns with people to talk to. I would want to read
the whole dialog, but Whit would be flipping through it.
I said, "Okay- what did that guy just say. You zipped by it so fast, you may have
gotten the idea, but you certainly can't tell me what he said word for word."
So Whit told me, word for word, what the guy we were talking with had just said. We
checked it, and Whit was right- he had gotten every single word.
I was speechless.
So, it's clear to me that speed reading is real.
My thoughts on Speed-reading, so far, are thus: It consists of collecting
patterns of words into chunks, much like we collect patterns of letters into words. It
consists of "knowing where it's leading", and searching for deviations or
variations from standard coarse. Speed reading has variable speed. There are parts that
are like a highway, and parts that are like a gravel road, or driving through snow. You
don't go the same speed all over the place. Things that require significant amounts of
thought still require significant amounts of thought. You can't just speed read through a
piece on mathematics, unless you are a skilled mathematician. You can't just speed read
through an API doc, unless you are already familiar with the general problem domain.
The last idea may be wrong. People may build meta-knowledge facilities that allow them
to quickly build complex knowledge structures in their mind, across subjects. But I have
never seen evidence of it.
A good analogy is players- you start playing with a hard time, but over time, you
chunk collections of moves in your mind, and can just glance and perform. Speed read like you play.
Psychology of speed reading
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| > Habitually returning to what is already read, that
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| > You become accustomed to grasping a whole word or a
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