”A few do get a huge boost from this, and I was one of those few. I was the fastest reader in school, by far, after a few months.” 
Posted on 02/11/2024 9:41:07 PM PST by ganeemead
ChadKaren is whining about what a brutal slog it is to obtain a video transcript.
I timed myself on an hour-and-a-half long video by Alexander Mercouris.
Took me all of 40 seconds to copy it into a Notepad app, ready for reading.
The Greek word for YES is ναι (pronounced née)
Then you should just run along rather than expect to be hand-fed like a two year old baboon.
”A few do get a huge boost from this, and I was one of those few. I was the fastest reader in school, by far, after a few months.”
And thanks for the cool trip down memory lane, too, just thinking about that and where I was and how life was then.
That was fun. Thanks!
It is what it is. I know quite a bit about speed reading because I was one of the “victims” of this fad. We were doing these exercises regularly for years, roughly third to fifth grade.
You really can learn to read very fast. Or rather, some people can.
That means you’d be reading at 2200-3000 words per minute.
No.
Spoken word rate is nominally about 150 wpm, but on a video that is normally padded with redundancy and irrelevant digressions that one can’t skim over.
My reading speed with full comprehension was north of 500wpm IIRC, but that was long ago.
I don’t know what it is now, I may take a test.
20X is overstating things, fair cop.
500 is the edge of what I consider possible under ideal conditions.
The speed reading tricks I was told relied on the fact that the slowdown is due to
a) the brain processing chunks of words
b) the eyes having to do a typewriter carriage return at the end of a line
So what I’d learned is find as wide a margin as possible, hold a finger or a sheet of paper under the current line, and don’t bother consciously moving the eyes to the beginning/end of the line: stay in the center and let the peripheral vision / subconscious working on context, grok the meaning of the words not explicitly read.
I never learned speed reading but I read the full unabridged Count of Monte Cristo (either 1803 or 1863 pages in the library version I had, I can’t remember which) in 18 hours straight in one sitting in 7th grade.
True. The trick, one of them, is to scan down the MIDDLE of a column of text, not linearly from edge to edge. That is a mental adjustment as well, to get a wholistic idea of a mass of text, not a linear one. Thats as I was taught in the 1960s.
Yes, I was a precocious reader too. Not necessarily related to speed reading. I also had that habit of reading through the night, annoying my parents :)
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