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Wishes
What is also included which I find very useful is a way to set bookmarks so
that you can go back to a specific place in a long document you want to read
later.
Second nice feature that I really liked was a reading that gave you an estimated
time of completion if you are reading at the set word per minute. When looking
at a piece you can decide how much time it is worth spending reading it - in
other words only scan it if it is not that important so make the speed faster
and know exactly how much time it is going to take.
Psychology of speed reading
Speed reading tip. Approach rapid reading with a relaxed, confident
mind-set. First, forget any 100 percent compulsion you may have built up over the
years. Remind yourself that in the future, no one is going to test you on your leisure
reading! Second, leave the slow rates (100-300 wpm) to talking or reading aloud.
Your eyes can see all the words on a page at speeds up to 800 wpm, and your brain
can operate at thousands of words per minute. So feed yourself printed words at
a more challenging pace--400-800 wpm.
Speed reading tip. Trust your sense of closure. All adult readers
know enough about English words, sentence patterns, and common logic to understand
most of the contents of a page even if they do not clearly see every word. ("Function
words"--those not essential to literal comprehension--may easily be omitted. "Key
words," however, are important to comprehension.) Depending on how concise a writer's
style is, we can omit 10-50 percent of the words in ordinary prose without losing
any basic literal comprehension.
Related articles
Thought units help you move faster. This is where you group the words according to context. For instance, lets say you have, "He said something." It's easy to put that in a phrase, then you move to the next phrase. If I had this sentence, "It's safe to say that almost anyone can double his speed of reading while maintaining equal or higher comprehension." If I want to read that in phrases, "It's safe to say that almost anyone.......can double his speed........of reading while maintaining is equal or even higher comprehension." You move much faster that way.
Speed reading techniques
Remember these two things and enhance your reading speed:
- Make sure your text is fairly easy for you. You should know something about
the subject matter and have no major problems with the vocabulary, style, or
ideas. Don't expect to read Scientific American or Spinoza's philosophy rapidly
and with full comprehension the first time through, unless you are a scientist
or philosopher.
- Make sure your purpose for reading. Do you need to memorize the contents
of the material? Discuss it in detail? Savor the style? Are you aiming at 100
percent understanding of new, difficult principles, as when you study-read a
textbook? If so, don't expect a fast, once-through reading to be sufficient.
Your purpose should not be study or analysis (although a single rapid reading
prior to study or analysis is often very useful). Your purpose when you decide
to rapid read should be general information and enjoyment.
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Feature Highlights |
| > 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 :) |
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