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Originally Posted by junkyardwillie
The dictator program that someone posted earlier is a good way to push your reading speed ahead and its free. The program that I have was Ace Reader which is good, I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and I got my reading speed up by about a 100-150wpm but I've been stuck at around 400 for a while so now I'm using one of their programs that's similar to Dictator to push my reading speed with news articles (since I don't care about remembering everything in a news article it makes for good material to practice with). The program has a couple of good drills that help with speeding up your eye movements and stop regressing while reading.
I had found this site which gave some reviews for speed reading software programs available (I couldn't find any other programs than the ones they mentioned which was surprising I guess not a lot of people make programs for speed reading). You can check it out and see if any of them look helpful to you http://speed-reading-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Seems from what people have said that alot of "speed reading" isn't really
reading at all but merely skipping/skimming over stuff that seems to be unimportant. At least when one is talking speeds of 600 wpm and over. If that is the case I'm not really interested as almost all my reading is for pleasure and I don't want to be skimming it just to get it done.
Anyone know what would be considered a good fast speed that is still actually reading everything on the page and not skimming?
Cheers,
PKFFW