Speed Learning Secrets – Common Questions About Speed Reading
Speed Learning Secrets – Common Questions About Speed Reading
By Michael John Campbell
Here’s a quick round up of some of the more commonly asked questions about speed reading I get. How fast is it possible to read? How long does it take to get good? Does any of the speed reading software really work? Read on and I’ll spill the beans.
Q: How fast can I realistically read?
A: Pretty darn fast! The average person reads at around 250 words per minute. That’s slow. Most junior schools teach people to read, then stop before teaching them how to read really, really well, which is a real shame considering everything else they’ll learn is usually written down somewhere.
It’s quite realistic to double your reading speed within an hour simply by eliminating some bad habits that keep you slow and adding a few drills in to make you faster.
Pushing this up to 1000 words per minute is simply a matter of a little regular practice and if you really go for it, speeds up to 5000 words per minute with good comprehension are viable too. Faster than that and you’re into mental photography and recall systems which work on different concepts.
Q: How quickly can I get faster at reading?
A: How much of what quality of practice time do you have? Doubling your reading speed in an hour is perfectly reasonable. I pushed my reading speed from around 550 words per minute up to just over 5000 words per minute in one day.
Now that’s not a very practical pace to try and read most things at but if you set aside a day here and there to really get the skill down you should be able to crank along at a substantially improved pace soon enough to make it well worth the time.
Q: What is RSVP?
RSVP stands for a method of speed comprehension called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. This was originally developed by the RAF to help WW2 pilots recognise enemy planes from their silhouettes in the sky.
They started off by flashing up the outlines at a large size and gradually displayed them faster and faster, acclimatising the pilots to making very rapid identification of friend or foe just from the shape.
Applying this concept to speed reading involves displaying words one at a time on the screen at faster and faster speeds so that you get used to digesting the information mentally very quickly.
The advantages are that you don’t have to move your eyes which saves time, you can’t back skip which eliminates a common bad habit and the pace is kept constantly quick by the computer so you avoid subvocalising and get used to going fast.
Q: Is speed reading software any good?
A: Some of it works greats, some of it sucks. It really depends on where it fits into your overall learning system. It’s not much use if you’ve got a 1000 page college level text book – you need the text loaded into the software in the first place.
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From Michael Campbell and SuperHumanSecrets.com
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