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Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by soundsop »

Alex3917 wrote: post #24
nickb wrote: post #10

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I took a speed reading course long time ago and even though they had some interesting points about how to read, it was mostly filled with complete bullshit. Comprehension always trumps speed. I'm always surprised by people who say "I've read that book in an hour" or something like that. When I read, I get hundreds of ideas and have hundreds of questions in my head and I usually either write them down or look up the r…

"When I read, I get hundreds of ideas and have hundreds of questions in my head and I usually either write them down or look up the references on the web. That takes time." I have a pretty good method down now that might work for others. Whenever I'm reading a (non-fiction) book I put a dash in the margin next to any important point. I usually have two or three marks per page. Then after I'm done reading I go back an…

Is this the MindMap software you're referring to: http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/main.php ?

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by wozer »

spydez wrote: post #29
wozer wrote: post #28

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If you feel like improving it: I have trouble reading long words with spreeder (for example when reading German texts). Maybe you could make the tool pause a bit longer for words above a certain threshold.

That's already an option. Look for "speed variability" in the advanced settings.

Thank you! That works much better.

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by npk »

Very interesting. I'm not sure if speedreader improves my reading speed, but I noticed something when applying it to my thesis. It's much harder to speedread poorly written text! So, on a handful of paragraphs, I've concluded that speedreader is a great "debugging" tool.

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by Alex3917 »

soundsop wrote: post #31
Alex3917 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"When I read, I get hundreds of ideas and have hundreds of questions in my head and I usually either write them down or look up the references on the web. That takes time." I have a pretty good method down now that might work for others. Whenever I'm reading a (non-fiction) book I put a dash in the margin next to any important point. I usually have two or three marks per page. Then after I'm done reading I go back an…

Is this the MindMap software you're referring to: http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/main.php ?

http://freemind.sourceforge.net

FreeMind is the best product out there because of its speed and its emphasis on folding. The latter part might not make any sense until you play around with it for a while and start making really big maps.

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by chandler »

scott_s wrote: post #18

This reads in my head the same way it would sound if I pasted the text into a text-to-speech tool. That is, robotic, stilted, and lacking context. When the rate at which you ingest words is fixed, it doesn't allow you to actually process them. What's important is concepts expressed and learned in a given amount of time, not the words scanned.

Personally, it seems that increasing the number of displayed words allows me to process the text much faster. For instance, I can comfortably read and (mostly) comprehend at ~400 wpm when 30 words are displayed on screen at a time, while with only 1 word-per-frame I'm struggling to read and have zero comprehension.

Comprehension-wise, at the 30 wpf setting, the trouble seems to be when the app splits at sentence boundaries.

It's very interesting that this simple tool gives me personal insight into how I visually process texts.

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by s3graham »

scott_s wrote: post #18

This reads in my head the same way it would sound if I pasted the text into a text-to-speech tool. That is, robotic, stilted, and lacking context. When the rate at which you ingest words is fixed, it doesn't allow you to actually process them. What's important is concepts expressed and learned in a given amount of time, not the words scanned.

I thought so to at first. If you put it at something more like normal reading speed (600 maybe?) it flows a bit better. I'm not quite sure what it's supposedly improving though.

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by s3graham »

Andi wrote: post #15

This is crap. You read a TEXT. A text is not just an array of words but an array of words linked to each other in context. So you don't get information out of your text very well if you see one word after each other. It's useful to go back and re-think what you have read sometimes. The other drawback is that information is unequally distributed in the text and some parts can be read in a quicker way than others. Text…

Perhaps a really fast scroll would make more sense, so you could see a few words to the left and right for context.

Re: Spreeder.com | read 300 words/minute instantly

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Post by alex_c »

s3graham wrote: post #39
Andi wrote: post #15

This is crap. You read a TEXT. A text is not just an array of words but an array of words linked to each other in context. So you don't get information out of your text very well if you see one word after each other. It's useful to go back and re-think what you have read sometimes. The other drawback is that information is unequally distributed in the text and some parts can be read in a quicker way than others. Text…

Perhaps a really fast scroll would make more sense, so you could see a few words to the left and right for context.

I think a scroll would be a lot more tiring, if your eyes have to track moving information all the time.
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