Fast Reading

[Harvey]

please someone to share beneficial tips on how to fast read the book? is it good idea to read more than 3 books at a time i means chapter after chapter  from different books?

Edited August 15, 2016 by Harvey

[Pelin]

Expanding your peripheral vision is important. Try these:

 

and this, probably after the second minute if you are not familiar with yoga:

 

[ChimpBrain]

If you can afford to, get both the audio version and the paper version of a book. Set the audio to play at 1.5 to 2x regular speed (depending on the narrator's natural reading speed and clarity) and follow along with the paper book at the same time. 

[Sir Raz]

Basic tip: When reading, if you have a voice in your mind that's narrating what you read, get rid of it. 

Read without the voice! Why? Because you can see & understand faster than speak. The narrating voice will get in your way of reading faster.

[Eelco1981]

@Harvey I am currently doing the fast reading course. See the book on the book list you can purchase at Actualized.org

I started at 170 words per minute and now as 300 and some books of certain topics at 500 WPM. I sometimes read more books at once. One book is a how-to book In the weeks I practice the exercises in book A, i start with book B about a complete other topic.

[Harvey]

@Eelco1981 thanks for your answer and can you share the exact name of book?

[MIARIVEL]

@Harvey Personally I read one book at a time as I feel like I accomplish things a lot quicker and it motivates me to read my next book. 

One tip that I used to do in University when there were just endless pages in huge textbooks was skimming through the contents of the book, reading all the sub headings, read all the first paragraphs and conclusions, going through the questions at the end of the chapter to see if there is anything I need to go over with in more detail. I don't focus too much on every single big word I don't understand or know the meaning of. I keep skimming through paragraphs getting the gist of it by the subheadings. 

Sometimes we think we need to know everything to gain understanding of it all but this is not necessarily the case. Google how you can learn to read faster, there are plenty of techniques you can try for yourself.

[IndependantKouhai]

If you're fast read the book, come back to it after a couple of days and re-read it. That's if you really want to learn something from that book. 

[cirkussmile]

Any tips for removing the voice while reading?

[Sir Raz]

5 hours ago, cirkussmile said:

Any tips for removing the voice while reading?

Just look at the text! Practice makes it perfect.

[Lynnel]

On 15/08/2016 at 4:12 PM, Sir Raz said:

Basic tip: When reading, if you have a voice in your mind that's narrating what you read, get rid of it. 

Read without the voice! Why? Because you can see & understand faster than speak. The narrating voice will get in your way of reading faster.

You actually can't. Your brain is wired that way and otherwise you wouldn't understand what you're saying even.

You can learn to read faster by reading more or by having more focus, but the whole I can read books at QUANTUM speed and get everything is a bunch of crap.

I can also move my eyes extremely fast but that doesn't even match the 20.000 wps that all those materials promise you, and naturally I don't remember or understand anything.

You really gotta give props to the marketing guy's for the whole read faster thing with the whole Napoleon read fast and was successful, also all those celebrities too, you too buy the 1000$ product to learn it and succeed at life !

[Sir Raz]

6 hours ago, Lynnel said:

I can also move my eyes extremely fast but that doesn't even match the 20.000 wps that all those materials promise you, and naturally I don't remember or understand anything.

You really gotta give props to the marketing guy's for the whole read faster thing 

What materials are you talking about? I found out about this from my ex-classmate who reads a lot. I tried it & it worked for me. I can't say that now I read at the speed of light ... I just read a little faster.

[Lynnel]

@Sir Raz Well any fast reading material ! The whole concept itself ! Which promises you can achieve unbelivable speeds

Yes you can read a little faster and it's gonna happen naturally the more you read - no magic pill.

[reez]

@Lynnel Well reading at 20,000 WPM is bullshit. If someone can read in that speed he/she NEVER has a high comprehension. However, you can read in 1000-2000 WPM and keep a high comprehension

[Pelin]

Well I have the voice but still can read very fast, I'd say 400-500 wpm maybe? But it very much depends on clearing your mind, concentrating, your background knowledge, the language/dialect you are reading, first time/ second time reading etc. Also the genre. Newspaper/report/novel/article/blog... All require a different speed and time for contemplation. You could skim a newspaper and be fine. You can scan a report/ even a self-help book; if you already read books on self-help, you could skip a few parts after skim/scan. With these techniques your workload can decrease a great deal.