New way to read - 500wpm+ possible

Bull ****! :mad:

I could do 1000`s of WPM if I did not have to move my eyes from left to right! :rolleyes:

Staring at one spot picking word shapes is easy, fast readers see words as shapes and dont actually read the word. ;)
 
"andy" said:
makes me read like a robot

do not want. especially when reading stories
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It could be incredible for emails at work, for instance though. See if something is important immediately, and then go back and read and analyse it properly if necessary.
 
Well that was my project for the night. If you want to try Spritz with whatever text you feel like copying and pasting into it, I made this website for that since I couldn't find one and wanted to try it (the domain was free and pretty cheap so I thought I might as well :p)

SpritzFrame.com
 
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Energize said:
Useful for casual reading on forums etc, but would ruin the pacing of novels and be impractical for learning as you need to make a slow careful analysis of text.
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Yes, it would for instance give you no chance to react to something funny. Reading some Bukowski like that and when I crack up laughing 10 seconds later it's moved on. I can't see it working for novels at all really. Though as said if given in a form that you can pause easily and highlight text below the "reading box" or whatever it's called could still work. Eye tracking, hmmmm, if you look away it could pause.

Either way a story isn't about getting information into your brain at maximum speed, you wouldn't watch a film on fast forward with subtitles just to watch it quicker, you need to experience, for lack of a better term, a story as it was meant to be told, not as fast as possible.

That is the main issue, what do you need to take time over, what do you just want in your brain asap. Though as above, some research into people reading say a maths text uber quick several times a week vs someone reading slowly using the same minutes, who has better recall. With maths I find either quickly reading through what I've learnt a couple times can reinforce it very very well.

For speed, it is awesome and crazy effective, the question that remains is, in which situations is speed of input the key factor. Likely not many but we shouldn't be closed minded to how we can get information and knowledge into our brains. Crazy what the mind can do, read stuff uber quick, understand little, subconcious processes it while you sleep, understand it 3 days later, win?
 
**** this ****.

Fine if you're reading Bill Bryson. Personally I like to take my time over reading and having the option to go back should I need.
 
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Thoughts so far are: Would be awesome for light wiki articles, but citations ruin it a bit.

Edit: Just read entire wiki article on cunnilingus. Ladies.
 
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drunkenmaster said:
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.


That could actually work very very well. Plus, people would stop complaining about the length of my posts, win.....
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i don't know why, but im normally a very fast reader but whenever i start reading your posts i cant read any faster than the depressed robot in hitch hikers guide speaks and i end up skipping first to every 5th word, then just the first word of the paragraph then just the next post :(
 
I'm usually a more careful reader as I like to absorb the text I'm reading - but I read less fiction these days, which I could skim read more easily. I'd love to be able to read faster but I don't like missing out on a detail. I found that Spritz style reading to be more stressful than enjoyable - almost like being force fed and not being able to enjoy the food you're eating.
 
Freefaller said:
I'm usually a more careful reader as I like to absorb the text I'm reading - but I read less fiction these days, which I could skim read more easily. I'd love to be able to read faster but I don't like missing out on a detail. I found that Spritz style reading to be more stressful than enjoyable - almost like being force fed and not being able to enjoy the food you're eating.
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That's a good analogy. But some meals aren't enjoyable, and cramming them down quickly is beneficial. I would still read my favourite books in print, but spritzing sounds ideal for web browsing news etc. I like the idea of picking and choosing when I use it.
 
drunkenmaster said:
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.....
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tldr
 
I couldn't imagine using Spritz for leisure reading, nor reading something that I need to understand in detail. The only occasion I can see it being useful is if I need to quickly read something that doesn't have a summary.
 
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