Overclock Your Reading Speed


	Overclock Your Reading Speed

Mikez

5-21-2007 8:43 AM

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speed reading, comprehension, subvocalising

Mikez says:

There's a cool link to a web based tool to help you breeze through and comprehend an amount of text.

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At this average speed, most of us are actually reading the words to ourselves in our head, which is known as <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization">subvocalizing</A>. This is where you are ‘hearing’ the words in your head, or even saying them to yourself as you read. A behavior like this slows down your reading significantly, so it’s the first thing to go when you’re learning to speed read.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zenhabits.net/2007/05/overclock-your-reading-speed/"><P>To eliminate subvocalizing, you must practice reading faster than you can actually read. You can practice this skill with an online tool known as <A href="http://www.spreeder.com">Spreeder</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/979ACAA2-EF30-4AAF-84A4-622F1132524F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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