The most accurate type of speed reading I have found, and one that I have just recently begun using, is the one that incorporates using mostly your peripheral vision. It can increase reading speed by up to 500WPM!
Speed Reading
If you have read my other posts on this topic, than you should be reading this sentence at about 200WPM. The gist of it is, you use your peripheral vision to bounce across the page, rather than scanning across it, which will allow you to maximize how far your vision is stretched, allowing you to increase your reading speed to the max. Accounts of people using such tactics have resulted in reading almost an entire book in under an hour, and reading each page in just under a full ten seconds.
This skill will be difficult to master at first, but with practice, will eventually become second nature to you. It's a slight improvement from the regular type of speed reading, and still involves you getting rid of the voice in your head while you read, only in a bouncing motion (adequately using your peripheral vision to its largest extremes) rather than a gliding, scanning type of read through.
Start out practicing by beginning a regular speed reading session, preferably with a novel that you have read before so you can tell if your comprehension is hindered more so than you would like, and then use your pen to guide your peripherals, bouncing across each line of the page rather than scanning it through. It should be done with two bounces by your eyes, one for each side of the line, and will DRASTICALLY improve overall reading speed, and even comprehension. With time, this can even improve the extent to which you can actually use your peripheral vision.
Examples of people who have used this tactic with success
This skill will be difficult to master at first, but with practice, will eventually become second nature to you. It's a slight improvement from the regular type of speed reading, and still involves you getting rid of the voice in your head while you read, only in a bouncing motion (adequately using your peripheral vision to its largest extremes) rather than a gliding, scanning type of read through.
Start out practicing by beginning a regular speed reading session, preferably with a novel that you have read before so you can tell if your comprehension is hindered more so than you would like, and then use your pen to guide your peripherals, bouncing across each line of the page rather than scanning it through. It should be done with two bounces by your eyes, one for each side of the line, and will DRASTICALLY improve overall reading speed, and even comprehension. With time, this can even improve the extent to which you can actually use your peripheral vision.
Examples of people who have used this tactic with success
- Timothy Ferriss
- Senator John Kerry reported having learned speed reading in college
- Many University professors have learned and taught speed reading for decades
- I personally have used speed reading with some extreme benefits and potent effects
- Many SAT prep courses teach speed reading as a way to hone a higher test score
- The major Ivy League schools in the country teach a US based way of speed reading
- It is taught in the military alongside modafinil to improve soldiers cognition
Final Thoughts
Continue using this tactic and soon your will find yourself breezing through what are sometimes even the most challenging of textbooks and novels. Speed reading is one of the greatest life hacks as far as productivity goes, and can drastically improve your scholastic achievements, as well as overall cognition. Good Luck!
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