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

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Post by Kiro »

zhaphod wrote: post #90
Kiro wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the virtue of reading at 250 wpm? I do just fine reading at 1 wpm. Some times I feel just being good enough has lost its value.

If you had said you do just fine at 150 wpm may be i can accept it. But you are saying 1 wpm which means you are not trying to give constructive criticism. Most of the gen-pop is around 200-250 wpm which is why I said it is good enough. Don't be a troll.

> I do just fine reading at 250 wpm. Some times I feel just being good enough has lost its value.

What is fine? What is good enough? I think it's an absurd statement that in no way is an argument against reading at 500 wpm.

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

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Post by keithnoizu »

I have some very rough proto code for something along the lines of this from 2004 with per word weighting and ability to speed up or slow down general flow.

How is this even remotely patentable. This has to have been done a thousand times. Do the the red letters and black lines make that much difference.

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

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Post by albedoa »

sgoody wrote: post #70
lukev wrote: post #40

This is very interesting (and as has been pointed out in other comments, not exactly a new idea). I think its proper application, though, is in a tool for practicing reading, not for actually reading tests. One major thing this approach looses is the inherent non-linearity of text. If I miss a fact and want to back up a bit, or want to pause for a moment and think about something, I can (when reading) without even th…

Huh, strange thing is it seems like I just can read that quickly anyway. Started on the banner at 250wpm, pretty comfortable, went straight to 500wpm on the banner and still fairly comfortable to read. So I thought I'd have a go at just reading some plain text as quickly as I comfortably could and it turns out that I can read more quickly than I do . I don't know why I don't read more quickly than I do, perhaps it do…

I've thought about this before too, and I've realized that unless I give it some thought, my eyes read at about a talking speed, especially when reading essays and comments such as yours. My guess is since we hear the words in our heads, we prefer to hear them as if they were naturally spoken.

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

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Post by sergiosgc »

sgoody wrote: post #70
lukev wrote: post #40

This is very interesting (and as has been pointed out in other comments, not exactly a new idea). I think its proper application, though, is in a tool for practicing reading, not for actually reading tests. One major thing this approach looses is the inherent non-linearity of text. If I miss a fact and want to back up a bit, or want to pause for a moment and think about something, I can (when reading) without even th…

Huh, strange thing is it seems like I just can read that quickly anyway. Started on the banner at 250wpm, pretty comfortable, went straight to 500wpm on the banner and still fairly comfortable to read. So I thought I'd have a go at just reading some plain text as quickly as I comfortably could and it turns out that I can read more quickly than I do . I don't know why I don't read more quickly than I do, perhaps it do…

My comfortable reading speed is a bit above 700wpm. On a book with proper line length, or on my Kindle. Strangely, or not at all, I only read at that speed when parsing non-fiction texts. Reading a novel, the reading times on my Kindle boil down to 300wpm.

Some stuff needs to be savored, I guess. Even at that speed, I'm known for devouring books, so I am probably reading too fast.

On a side note, if Spritz is that good, I'd like to try it out above my comfort zone. Say, 1000wpm.

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

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Post by brokenparser »

ntaso wrote: post #68

A bit OT: In 2006, Volkswagen made an ad in the States for the Golf GTI and called it "turbo cojones". Apparently, they didn't know that "cojones" means testicles. They didn't do their research. While spritz is a seemingly normal German word ( spritzer means splash and the logo shows a water drop), the phrase I was spritzing is actually an extremely bad branding choice. It's usually said in a specific context and mea…

Why is this so bad? I'd be proud of my spritzing turbo cojones.

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

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Post by burkestar »

2 things:

1) With the overload of information, we've adapted to skim not only sentences but skip over entire sections of content because we instantly perceive them as not having valuable information. Factoring this in, I would think our reading speeds are over 1000 wpm. I got the gist of the page by skimming the first 2 paragraphs and skipping the rest as it was extraneous.

2) limiting it to 1 word at a time is counter to how most speed reading programs teach to extend the width of how many words you can read simultaneously. Some people can grok the meaning of an entire line of text without (or minimal) saccading. Their eyes just go straight down the middle of the page. It would be nice if the app helped "train" you to be able to increase your reading width without loss of comprehension. I might actually use it then.

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

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Post by frik »

a3_nm wrote: post #86

There is a "The Science" section, referring to the Blog referring back to the same section, but I see nothing scientific about it. Science does not work by giving loads of examples of why the approach "should" work better than traditional reading, substantiated by intuition and "80%"-"20%" figures given with no reliable source. It should instead be validated by experiments. Here, it is simple enough to validate the a…

The german language text could be better. Also some words are broken up, and some very long words still there in full length... makes it harder to read.

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

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Post by FailMore »

From this page: http://www.spritzinc.com/the-science/

This is amazing. How do I make it pause?

This seems to be the advantage of text 'being there' - I can leave and come back. I want to do the same with Spritz.

I also think that a visual cue that lets me know where I am in the content would make me feel more satisfied. A bit like when using Sublime the space in the top right that gives you the context of where you are in the document.

I'd love to see myself racing through a document. I think it would convey your value proposition even more too.

Good luck. It's great. J

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

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Post by vacri »

devindotcom wrote: post #32
xenophanes wrote: post #19

FAQ says: > Next, let’s talk about subvocalization. This is the process whereby, whenever you read, you talk to yourself, repeating every word in your head. The issue here is that most people can only speak at about 180wpm, maximum. Increasing speed beyond that means not saying every word to yourself. This makes no sense to me. I've read at 600 wpm while sub-vocalizing every word. That's much much faster sub-vocalizi…

This makes no sense to me. Spoken English does not reach 10 words per second even in New York; to hear it, even inwardly, would be to hear a jam of syllables with no respite and hardly any time to parse out the phonemes.

As an Australian crossing the US, I looked forward to NYC because finally I'd be in a place where they talked at a proper speed. But when I got there, while it was nice to not have to slow my speech to be understood, I still found the locals were speaking a touch too slow for my liking.
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