This is amazing. Not only can I now magically read at 350WPM, but I noticed what I believe is a spelling error at 350WPM ("Integrate" was spelled as either "Intergate" or "Intergrate")
Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
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Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Well I can listen to text to speech at ~550 wpm anyway. You apparently think that's impossible, all a jam of syllables. I have friends who do similar. no respite is a matter of practice. time to parse the content is not that hard if you've already learned to RSVP faster. you're basically denying what you don't know how to do, for no apparent reason.
you're basically denying the definition. echoing in the brain isn't the same as actually getting the muscles in the throat or the mouth to move. It does slow things down but the muscle movement is way slower and some people don't get rid of it.
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#43Good for reading practice or for easy-to-digest text but I don't think it would fly when the text material's concept is unfamiliar.
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#44I played around with something like this a while ago (my files have 2004 timestamps, but those may have updated when I copied stuff to a new computer). I had a command-line based program that took text and displayed it a word at a time. If anyone would like to play around with it, here's my source. Compile: c++ speedread.cpp Usage: ./a.out [delay_in_ms] Should work on Mac and Linux, and maybe Windows if you uncomment…
Use a pastebin mate
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#45As 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.
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#46This reminds me of ZAP Reader http://www.zapreader.spreeder.com/
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#47As 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.
Looks like one of the founders is from Munich. Maybe he is just a little trolly.
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#48It may be sour grapes, but why should any one read at such high speeds. What is the virtue of reading at 500 wpm. I don't think that the time saved is such a big deal unless one is reading 40 - 50 books a year or reading 300+ technical papers a year. And comprehension suffers at high speed. I do just fine reading at 250 wpm. Some times I feel just being good enough has lost its value.
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#49As 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.
Looks like one of the founders is from Munich. Maybe he is just a little trolly.
Being trollish doesn't make your name any better.
And yeah, I find the name very unfortunate as well, especially in combination with call to actions like "Click here to Spritz".
Re: Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
#50I 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 :)
couldn't care less. it is first to file now, biatch.