500wpm is a bit slow already for me, 600 was not much harder(on their website) 250 is damn slow now....... you've ruined my entire reading life, ruined I tell you.
Seriously though it was fairly easy to do and took moments to get used to it. But I already read certain information seriously fast. I think I read massively quicker on something like a forum than in a book, screen further away, data in neat blocks(usually), there is already less movement and frankly if you ever need it. The ability to scroll the page to keep probably a similar but not as far idea of keeping the bit you are reading in roughly the same place, less jumping around for words.
I think for certain things it lends itself very well, news headlines(edit:- thinking about it, headlines would be rubbish as you'd either have to click on every box on the page or wait for it to get back around to the headline you wanted, could be great for clicking on a headline and then it autoplays the story for you), that kinda guff. but I can't imagine reading my uni books via this method. Though who knows, bang the information in over 20 mins, come back and do that two more times in that one day, sleep on it, read it again a couple days later. Maybe the simple time saved will let you read through it so much quicker you can read information more often and consolidate the ideas in your head. Certainly worth looking in to/researching from that side of it.
In general though, say for a maths degree, I can find myself reading the same paragraph over and over without one bit clicking making the rest gibberish.
http://www.spritzinc.com/the-science/#
looking at their website if this is how most content is delivered then it will work pretty well. Have the box at the time, a hotkey to pause it, have the page autoscroll to where the words are coming from. If you miss something or need to read through something slowly and carefully it would be showing the relevant area of information. Have clicks/interaction within the main text sync up to the spritz box. So highlight a word in the text and that would be where it would restart from. When you hit pause, it auto highlights the last paragraph or something to take you directly to it.
That could actually work very very well. Plus, people would stop complaining about the length of my posts, win.....
