| Learning how to speed read can change your life | | | | reading is known as sub-vocalization. Since you |
| forever. The amount of time saved, the | | | | are only able to talk so fast, this puts a cap on |
| improved learning potential, and the new ability to | | | | your reading speed, and limits your potential. |
| process information at incredible rates are only a | | | | Learning how to cancel out the voice in your mind |
| few of the benefits that you will experience after | | | | allows you to reach supersonic reading speeds. |
| learning how to speed read. Speed reading itself | | | | 4. Multi-Word Focus |
| has been around since the 1950's, and methods of | | | | Your mind is much more incredible than we are |
| learning can be found on all sorts of media | | | | taught to believe. It is more powerful than the |
| including books as well as in audio and video | | | | most expensive computer in existence, and if |
| formats. In the past few years, Speed Reading | | | | trained properly, can handle mass amounts of |
| Software has been made available to the general | | | | information. Reading one word at a time is |
| consumer which provides students with the | | | | comparable to typing using the Hunt and Peck |
| technological advantage to learn how to speed | | | | method, where you search for each letter |
| read quickly and easily. | | | | individually and use only your forefingers to type; |
| As you continue reading, we will be covering the 5 | | | | Very inefficient, to say the least. Learning how to |
| main steps that can be taken to help you | | | | read multiple words at once, will save tons of |
| improve your reading speed and reach impressive | | | | time, increase comprehension, and obviously |
| rates. Each individual step will help you increase | | | | increase your reading speed. |
| your reading speed slightly, but when combined | | | | 5. Strengthening Your Peripheral Vision |
| you can achieve truly phenomenal results. | | | | Your eyes are designed to clearly focus where |
| 1. Mind Set | | | | you look. However, you can still see out of the |
| Overcoming distractions and possessing the ability | | | | sides of your eyes (your peripherals), even |
| to concentrate will make one of the most | | | | though it may not be as clear. There are certain |
| significant and noticeable increase to your reading | | | | exercises that train your mind to improve your |
| speed. You will spend more time involved with the | | | | peripherals, and make the image appear much |
| material instead of answering your phone, texting, | | | | clearer. This will help improve your scanning ability, |
| adjusting your position, using the bathroom, etc. | | | | allow you to see entire paragraphs at once, and |
| Go to a quiet place where you surely will not be | | | | certain studies have shown an improvement in |
| disturbed, position yourself comfortably, turn off | | | | overall vision. |
| your phone, listen to white noise on your | | | | 6. Stopping Regression |
| headphones, and have a goal set on what you | | | | Regression, more commonly known as re-reading, |
| hope to gain from the reading material in front of | | | | is one of the main issues that slow down a |
| you. | | | | reader's speed. Have you ever come to the |
| 2. Reading Technique | | | | bottom of a page, and realized that you have |
| Sit straight in your chair, tilt your head slightly | | | | absolutely no idea what you had just read? |
| forward, and angle the book towards you (45 | | | | Almost everyone has, and the natural instinct is to |
| degrees). This can be done using 2 or 3 books as | | | | re-read the text in hopes of picking it up the |
| a stand. Use your fingertips or a pen to underline | | | | second time. Untrained readers spend one quarter |
| exactly where you are reading. As you come to | | | | to one third of their actual reading time, |
| the end of a page, prepare to turn to the next | | | | re-reading. That means that for every hour spent |
| one. Don't be afraid to take notes. | | | | in front of the book, only 40-45 minutes of actual |
| 3. Sub-vocalization | | | | reading was gained. Ways to stop this, are |
| When all of us learned how to read, we were | | | | improving your concentration, having a goal in |
| instructed to read aloud to the teacher with the | | | | mind of what you want to gain from the material, |
| sole reason being to make sure we were doing it | | | | and taking breaks every 25 minutes or so. This |
| right. However, most adults have never learned | | | | will help you keep on task and make your time |
| to move past this phase and continue to read | | | | spent reading more effective. |
| aloud, in their minds. The voice you hear when | | | | |