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I found Bionic 10% slower than Literata. But I also found I am a verrrry slow reader. My reading speed came to 147 wpm. Any recommendation to improve this?
Bionic reading: 317 WPM Literata: 317 WPM You read 0% faster with Bionic Reading I guess I’m a pretty consistent slow reader.
Way faster than me, and at the top end of average, based on everything I can find online. I'm curious though, what the average is among "readers" lol.
I do read quickly but I have read that essay before, so perhaps I only skimmed it. I wasn't certain on one of the comprehension questions.
https://speed.readwise.io Your results Typeface Bionic Reading Literata Article 1 591 WPM 352 WPM Article 2 657 WPM 457 WPM Average Speed 624 WPM 405 WPM You read 43% faster with Bionic Reading Guess gotta give this a try for storybooks... maybe some enterprising and bored HN nerd can make a Calibre plugin that converts regular epubs to bionic reading enabled epub files ---- but the truth is, for the aforementioned s…
Jeeze that is fast. More than twice the average reading speed. I wonder if bionic reading helps more for "speed readers"? Your results surely suggest it. Also - It must be so painful for you to type, or heck even speak!
Would it work with languages that have longer words and a case system?
I don't understand. From their own metrics - speed went up by a lower percentage than comprehension dropped. This sounds like a terrible idea...
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Note that my natural reading speed is ~950 wpm, so I tend to ignore these fads. Were you just born with 4-5x the average reading speed? Or did you employ some other 'fads'? This seems pretty astonishing. Particularly in light of the following sentence on the "Speed Reading" entry on Wikipedia: > Cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene says that claims of reading up to 1,000 words per minute "must be viewed with sk…
I simply read a lot of science fiction/fantasy as a kid, and it happened naturally. I would view claims that a random person could be taught to read at my speed with skepticism. But I've met other people who read as fast as I do. As a kid I thought I was simply a slightly fast reader until I happened to take a copy of https://www.amazon.com/Clan-Cave-Bear-Jean-Auel/dp/060961097... to a bath. I started, got caught up…
Linked at the end of the article is the short (15 minutes maybe) self-test: https://speed.readwise.io/ . Curious what results people here got. I got 23% faster with BR but I couldn't tell if I was just trying harder.
As the article says, a better comparison may be to have a fake version of BR as the control.