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Another fact, that I think a designer team could adjust is not having a perspective the entire text, paragraph, etc. bothers me.
Other than that, when you need to speed read, it's true, it's faster than moving your eyes left-right (or right-left if you're Arabic).
I 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…
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.
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…
i'm happy for them, yet another thing i can stroke off my todo list. tyvm
pull request is welcome :D
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…
they told there's a point called ORP, it's the point on the word that people could recognize the word quickly. so if you align the point of each word, the reading of words will be easy.
the second point is reducing eye balls' rotation.
this really improved the way I read in English, love it :D
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How many second languages can you have?
Ethnologue states that there are 7105 languages in the world[0]. Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that you can have x second languages, where x is any number between 0 and 7104. [0] https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics
In the dropdown menu where you select a WPM rate, change the "data-value" attribute values in the li elements to whatever you want.
Also, although it helped my speed reading considerably, I would not adopt the current version of the product because it does not allow for pauses (eyes get tired, sneezes, blinks, distractions, etc), re-reads, time to ponder, etc. However, I think these problems can be addressed with very simple UI tweeks:
1. (On mobile) Push to read. Release to pause
2. Scroll to go back/forward
3. Ability to start and skip to other areas in the text, probably via some table of contents
4. Some estimate of remaining pages/words. I like to scroll ahead to see how long an article is. If the article is gone, I have no way of sensing duration. A displayed word count might help, but I'd imagine that few people can easily process number of words as a duration.
* My eyes muscles feel oddly relaxed while reading, whereas in contrast I need I mental focus to understand the text. It's really hypnotic, in a weird but not unpleasant way.
* Keeping focused on a single point for minutes, I get a disconcerting tunnel effect. As my brain hasn't seen my surroundings for too long, it stops recomposing it, and that makes me conscious of how small my precise vision area is. This also contributes to the hypnotic effect of that thing.
* It absolutely needs an intuitive throttle. My optimal speed varies continuously, because the information density varies a lot within a single text, and some information can be perceived to have widely different levels of relevance for different readers. I'd probably like the speed to be controlled by the mouse's y axis.
* Quick indexing: I want to easily jump anywhere in the page, not read it sequentially.