Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read

Post by edwcar13 » Sun, Apr 17, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

niccaluim wrote: post #43

edwcar13 wrote: post #6

Hmm interesting. But speed reading isn't just less eye movement while reading line by line. It's using your peripheralife vision to read longer chunks of words line by line. Like when driving you see a sign and just know what you saw without slowly reading it. Idk if I agree with this 100%.

Ironically, this point is addressed in the article. Maybe you didn't see it. :) Here it is: There is only a small area in the retina (called the fovea) for which our visual acuity is very high. Our eyes are seriously limited in their precision outside of that. This means that we can take in only a word or so at each glance, as well as a little bit about the words on either side. In fact, since the 1960s, experiments…

Post by therealdrag0 » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC

forgetsusername wrote: post #70

wink wrote: post #15

Also, the part about not listening to stuff at double speed. As if all recordings (and thus people speaking) were using the same speed. Sure, there are people who talk too fast anyway, but I've had an online course where I had to move to 1.5x speed to even be able to follow along and not drift off constantly...

> I had to move to 1.5x speed to even be able to follow along and not drift off constantly... I'm an avid audio-book listener, and I use both 1.5-2.0x and 0.8-0.9x, depending on my mood. The slower speeds definitely allow you to "think" more about the content, rather than concentrating solely on the narrative.