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Originally Posted by untiedknot
I have heard so many mixed opinions on speed reading. Does it work? Do you comprehend anything? Has anyone gone through a program or bought a speed reading product that has worked for them?
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Yes it does work but imho most of us "speed readers" are not able to comprehend
anything. With speed reading you comprehend the main information of a passage with one view. Most speed readers don't read every character or every word, basically they just "read" some words of a passage with one view and comprehend the information based on similiar "word-patterns" (in case of a continuous text).
Some people seem to be able to comprehend more information with one view than others but i never met a speed-reader who was able to comprehend
all details of a text. Usually the average reader is able to read up to 300 words in a minute. A average speed-reader can read between 600 and 1000 words in a minute. Only a few people are able to read faster - and if they do so their eyes are getting tired very soon. Some trainings are indeed promising reading rates of some thousand words per minute - imho this is just bullshit.
I've not gone through a program nor have i bought a "speed reading product" but i'm able to read up to 1000 words in a minute. Maybe some hundred words more for a very short time if i would really try it. Imho, if one has to read a lot of stuff regulary in very short time then he will become a "speed-reader" (or at least a very good and fast reader) automatically.
If you want learn speed-reading please keep one thing in mind: It isn't that useful as it seems to be. Speed-Reading poetry and fiction isn't much fun because it affects the power of imagination negatively (you just don't have enough time to use your imagination while reading) and speed-reading technical books isn't possible without missing some (mostly important) details.