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Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by gcb0 »

kayoone wrote: post #45

As a german i find the name a bit unfortunate. To spritz = spritzen means to squirt/spray coat and in german is often associated with ejaculating. I don't know if this name would fly around here, but maybe thats why it would. Could make for some funny conversations.

i don't speak a word in german other than beer varieties and i also read that as something like spraying words. only on the second take i got the sprint similarity. ...Completely missed the climax though.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by drham »

Someone has implemented a similar process in an iOS app called Velocity (http://velocityapp.com). I downloaded it a few weeks ago and have tried it off and on, I have trouble for the use case of reading feeds (it integrates mostly with rss feeds I think) in that I tend to do that reading in distraction-prone environments but it might work better for other mediums

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by anarchitect »

kayoone wrote: post #45

As a german i find the name a bit unfortunate. To spritz = spritzen means to squirt/spray coat and in german is often associated with ejaculating. I don't know if this name would fly around here, but maybe thats why it would. Could make for some funny conversations.

It's also an Italian cocktail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_(alcoholic_beverage)

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by buro9 »

I know my eyesight is bad (test scheduled for today and new glasses overdue), but I really struggled with this.

I tried multiple times to read the example, but would stumble to comprehend the shape of a word or two, lose my way, and have to rewind back to the beginning.

Overall it felt considerably slower and more broken, less rhythmic. My comprehension felt lower, I felt I spent far more time comprehending the shapes of the words rather than the totality of the meaning expressed.

I know my eyesight is bad, that I am long-sighted and colour blind, but this was a painful and slow reading experience.

Some words took so much concentration to figure out that I'd forgotten the words that preceded it, and lost context.

Without the ability to rewind this or to see a larger context, I would avoid this like the plague.

Clearly an outlier as everyone else is raving.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by anarchitect »

Very interesting, and I did manage to read 500WPM without too much of a struggle, but I did not enjoy reading with this technique. I feel uncomfortable not knowing when a paragraph is going to end, and the relentless onslaught of words took the fun out of it.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by bambax »

I had no trouble reading at 500 wpm, and although I seemed to miss a few words (maybe due to blinking?), that didn't interfere with comprehension.

But the French translation is gibberish!! This is unprofessional and insulting. If you can't be bothered to hire a professional translator, please don't offer content in that language at all.

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by axman6 »

paulftw wrote: post #34
rosser wrote: post #20

I wonder whether this uses the front-facing camera for blink detection, particularly at higher WPM settings. A blink typically lasts 100-400ms (per Wikipedia), and 500 WPM is .8333... words per 100ms. A blink thus seems very likely to miss a word or two once you're using this the way its creators intend. I don't see any mention of blinking or mitigating its impact on the site, though.

I guess a software could insert a "blink break" every couple of minutes. They could even display an a video commercial during that time, to monetize your blinks. Since everyone seems to try to patent everything: in this comment I claim the invention of a killer business model for speed reading apps. 25 Feb 2014, 4:30pm Sydney time :)

I'll keep this disclosure in mind when it comes across my desk. But now you've got no chance of patenting it yourself, so touch luck =).

Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training

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Post by axman6 »

gcb0 wrote: post #50
paulftw wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess a software could insert a "blink break" every couple of minutes. They could even display an a video commercial during that time, to monetize your blinks. Since everyone seems to try to patent everything: in this comment I claim the invention of a killer business model for speed reading apps. 25 Feb 2014, 4:30pm Sydney time :)

couldn't care less. it is first to file now, biatch.

Congratulations on being one of the millions of internet users who have no idea how the patent system works. First to file is purely for determining priority of an application; the date at which the patent office (or another patent office under the Paris convention) comes to know about the invention. It's used to resolve a) which prior art is relevant (anything published publicly before this date) and b) if two people try to patent the same thing, which one gets it (gross simplification here). America was the only country which had the "First to invent" priority, which the rest of the world has deemed for decades as completely daft and a huge administrative nightmare.
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