Speed reading rate
Look at what you are reading rate. Do you find you can't read it fast
enough? That you are able to process the ideas faster than you can read them? Then stop
reading that book and find a harder one. Try reading again. Find you can't read that fast
enough? Then find a harder book. Eventually find a book that you can't
read faster than you can process. Now you've found your correct
reading level.
Keep reading books that are this difficult. If you're worried that this process might not terminate
then listed some books that
you can definitely already read faster than you can understand. Somewhere between the crap
you're currently reading and these books lies something at your reading level.
Poor results are inevitable if the reader attempts to use the same reading
rate
indiscriminately for all types of material and for all reading purposes. He must learn to
adjust his reading rate to his purpose in reading and to the difficulty of the material he is
reading. This ranges from a maximum reading rate on easy, familiar, interesting material or in
reading to gather information on a particular point, to minimal reading rate on material which is
unfamiliar in content and language structure or which must be thoroughly digested. The
effective reader adjusts his reading rate ; the ineffective reader uses the same
reading rate for all types
of material.
Reading rate adjustment may be overall adjustment to the article as a whole, or internal
adjustment within the article. Overall adjustment establishes the basic rate at which the
total article is read; internal adjustment involves the necessary variations in rate for
each varied part of the material.
There are different styles of reading for different situations. The technique you
choose will depend on the purpose for reading. For example, you might be reading for
enjoyment, information, or to complete a task. If you are exploring or reviewing, you
might skim a document. If you're searching for information, you might scan for a
particular word.
If you need a moderate level of information on a subject, then you can scan the text.
Here you read the chapter introductions and summaries in detail.
You may then speed-read the contents of the chapters, picking out and understanding key
words and concepts. At this level of looking at the document it is worth paying attention
to diagrams and graphs.
When you need detailed knowledge of a subject is it worth studying the text. Here it is
best to skim the material first to get an overview of the subject. This gives you an
understanding of its structure, into which you can fit the detail gained from a full
reading of the material.
Overall rate adjustment should be based on your reading plan, your reading purpose, and
the nature and difficulty of the material. The reading plan itself should specify the
general rate to be used. This is based on the total "size up". It may be helpful
to consider examples of how purpose can act to help determine the rate to be used.
To understand information, skim or scan at a rapid rate. Determine value of material or
to read rapidly or slowly according to you feeling. To read analytically, read at a
moderate pace to permit interrelating ideas. The nature and difficulty of the material
requires an adjustment in rate in conformity with your ability to handle that type of
material. Obviously, level of difficulty is highly relative to the particular reader.
While Einstein's theories may be extremely difficult to most laymen, they may be very
simple and clear to a professor of physics. Hence, the layman and the physics professor
must make a different rate adjustment in reading the same material. Generally, difficult
material will entail a slower rate; simpler material will permit a faster rate.
Internal rate adjustment involves selecting differing rates for parts of a given
article. In general, decrease speed when you find the following:
- Unfamiliar terminology not clear in context. Try to understand it in context at that
point; otherwise, read on and return to it later;
- Difficult sentence and paragraph structure; slow down enough to enable you to untangle
them and get accurate context for the passage;
- Unfamiliar or abstract concepts. Look for applications or examples of you own as well as
studying those of the writer. Take enough time to get them clearly in mind;
- Detailed, technical material. This includes complicated directions, statements of
difficult principles, materials on which you have scant background;
- Material on which you want detailed retention. In general, increase speed when you meet
the following materials:
- Simple material with few ideas, which are new to you; move rapidly over the familiar
ones; spend most of your time on the unfamiliar ideas;
- Examples and illustrations. Since these are included to clarify ideas, move over them
rapidly when they are not needed;
- Detailed explanation and idea elaboration, which you do not need,
- Generalized ideas and ideas, which are restatements of previous ones. These can be
readily grasped, even with scan techniques.
In keeping your reading attack flexible, adjust your rate sensitivity from article to
article. It is equally important to adjust you rate within a given article. Practice these
techniques until a flexible reading rate becomes second nature to you.
Some reading rate tips
Vary your reading rate to suit the difficulty and type of writing of the text. Poor
readers always read at the same slow rate. An efficient reader speeds up for easier
material and slows down for the hard. Some things were not to be read quickly at all.
Legal material and very difficult text should be read slowly. Easier material and
magazines and newspapers can be read quickly. Poetry and plays were meant to be performed,
and if not acted out, then at least, spoken out loud orally. This obviously will conflict
with good speed-reading method, which forbids
vocalization. Religious writings and
scripture were originally written to be recited and listened to by an audience which was
likely to be intelligent, but illiterate. The "fun" of poetry, plays, or prayer
is not really experienced if you "speed read" the text.
Measure reading rate of how quickly one can read. It is
calculated by dividing the number of words read by the number of minutes it takes to read
the words. Reading rate most commonly is expressed in units of words per minute.
Everybody has thinking skills, but few use them effectively. Effective
thinking skills cannot be studied, but must be built up over a period of time. Good
thinkers see possibilities where others see only dead-ends. If you're not a good thinker,
start now by developing habits that make you ask yourself questions as you read.
Talk to other students who you feel are good thinkers. Ask them what it is they do when
they think critically or creatively. Often times, you can pick up valuable insights to
help you become a better thinker.
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| > By using Speed reading software, you can improve
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| > 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 :) |
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