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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
With a (sporadic) attempt this does not work either - there you also only read letter by letter.
With a lot of practice you get to know the pictures of the words - and only then it becomes fast.
Of course it happens again and again that a picture is not recognized; then it becomes slow again, because letter for letter is read.
The simpler the font (sans serif) with non-variable letter spacing, the easier it is to remember word pictures.
I only know how it works for me - but not for others
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My reading speed is currently in the 1000 WPM neighbourhood which is why I said that I might not be the best person to test the reading speed changes that you claim for your methodology.
However what you are stating above sounds suspiciously like the "whole language/three cues" method of teaching children to read. The methodology that produced readers who had difficulty differentiating between words such as 'horse' and 'house. You might want to check out
Progress in Understanding Reading by Keith E. Stanovich whose research on reading back in the 70's is still some of the best work in the field.