You need to create goals, exercise mindfulness, lessen subvocalization, scan the text for keywords, connect new knowledge to what you already know, train your brain with impressions, associations, and repetition, take notes, and write summaries to speed read and retain everything. Everybody enjoys a good book. And when we’re done, we can still recall the […]
Playing piano efficiently requires learning different skills to improve yourself. The piano is an instrument that harmonizes different notes to produce the sounds listeners hear. A fundamental skill to achieving some mastery in this field is knowing how to read chords. You must undergo certain practice sessions and key lessons to understand how to speed-read […]
Dyslexics can increase their reading speed by practicing more frequently, avoiding subvocalization, improving their visual span, and expanding their vocabulary. It may surprise you to learn that those who have dyslexia have a higher probability of becoming proficient speed readers. In his book “Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World,” Jeffrey Freed argues that children with […]
Subvocalization means sounding out words in the mind as we read them, which is how most people were taught to read. However, the case may be different for deaf people. Most deaf people, especially those deaf from birth, don’t subvocalize when they read. They can’t associate sounds with words like hearing people. So instead, they […]
Speed reading a novel can be done quickly by practicing some reading methods. Fast readers tend to read about 60 pages per hour. You can also improve your reading speed by following the techniques below: Reading chunks, not words. Skimming through Not rereading Using trackers or hand-pacing Using tools to help you increase your reading […]
Learning how to speed read improves not only your overall reading process but also your reading comprehension. That’s because practicing speed reading accelerates your brain processes and boosts your memory, leading to increased comprehension. Sometimes when people come across the words “speed reading,” what immediately comes to mind are ways of reading faster than the […]
