[TechniSol]

I'm more inclined to agree that words have shapes which aids in recognition, not that by seeing a larger than one line area of text you're able to process outside that line in any meaningful way. I believe it's been demonstrated that fonts with serifs speed recognition.

The eye is not designed like a digital image with the same clarity from side to side, top to bottom. I can easily hit 1200 wpm speed reading with around 96% comprehension, which I do very infrequently due to losing flavor, but I scan stuff all the time looking for specifics I've not bothered to commit to memory. I find that personally no matter what I'm still touching down or focusing in multiple spots per line. Do you find it to be different?

Frankly, I fail to see how the surrounding lines of text above and below affect one's ability to recognize the line currently being scanned unless one is a "page at a glance" savant.

I think it's been proven for a long time that simply flashing lines of text in the same place allows for much quicker recognition than manually scanning one's eye back and forth and down.