New way to read - 500wpm+ possible

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2014 at 09:10

me227 said:
I like to blink while I read.

I like to take my time.

krooton · 10 Mar 2014 at 09:27

Ace if the text is informative.
Crud if the text is entertaining.

As for actually taking it in, I find a 400wpm spritz does a better job being processed by my brain than my normal paragraph scanning.

Gilly · 10 Mar 2014 at 09:44

FoxEye said:
For people who read to relax I can't see it catching on.

For people who read to relax it a) doesn't matter so much (as the speed you read at is much less important) and b) easier as you don't need to take on every single word to understand the gist of a storyline.

It suits people that read to relax (I already read like this) far more than anyone else.

Leprechaun312 · 10 Mar 2014 at 09:58

idk, i am not an avid reader and have only really started reading books in the last 2 months (thats right, 18, done history GCSE, AS and currently A2 and am only starting to read books now

) but that is far to difficult to follow, there are times i have to go back and reread stuff how the **** can you do that with spritz. For reading notes for exams you won't have time to process the detail infront of you and learn it for the exam if it is being thrown at you at 500wpm.

dirtychinchilla · 10 Mar 2014 at 11:24

krooton said:
Ace if the text is informative.
Crud if the text is entertaining.

As for actually taking it in, I find a 400wpm spritz does a better job being processed by my brain than my normal paragraph scanning.

Agreed. I couldn't read a novel with this; I'm confused easily enough as it is.

pitchfork · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:02

I don't like reading from screens, come back when you can get a sheet of paper to do this.

platypus · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:28

This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 minutes

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I'd much rather enjoy it, thanks.

platypus · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:32

I do wonder if I could just overload my brain into knowing French..

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:44

platypus said:
I do wonder if I could just overload my brain into knowing French..

One way to find out but you may blow a fuse.

Irish_Tom · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:53

drunkenmaster said:
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?

Just read this comment using Lightnix's link and I can categorically state that DM's posts makes just as little sense at 500wpm as they do at normal speed.