Learning to speed read is an invaluable skill because most information is available as text. So, whether you are a college student faced with thousands of pages of reading material or an entrepreneur who wants to improve their business skills or even a stay-at-home-mom, speed reading is a skill that will bring you a wide range of benefits once you master it. Of course, speed-reading is something you can learn. The skill, once mastered, will give you the ability to read two times as fast at a bare minimum. Let’s begin.
First of all, you need to figure out exactly what your current reading speed is. You need a benchmark to measure yourself against so you know whether you are making progress or not. You can find out your reading speed in a few minutes, either by timing yourself or by doing an online search and finding a site that has tests that time you. To do it yourself, find some reading material of average difficulty and get out a timer; three minutes is a good amount of time to set it for. Read at the fastest rate that you’re presently comfortable with until you hear the timer. You can then easily figure out your per minute reading speed by counting the number of words you read and dividing the number of minutes that went by accordingly (e.g. 750 words in 3 minutes = 250 words per minute). Two hundred wpm is fairly typical, but your own rate might be faster or slower.
Instead of just seeing words as words, if it happens to be an action word, for example, you should see the action in your mind’s eye, instead of the word. This is imperative, since your mind will then comprehend the notion that you don’t have to read each and every word on the page, and this will have a major effect on how quickly you read. Once you understand how to do this, instead of concentrating too much on each printed letter, you will begin to develop images in your mind, from the words. It is sort of like building a movie in your mind’s eye and before you know it, you’ll be reading a lot faster and understanding the content a whole lot better. Navigate to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning for up to date opinion.
Structuring the material that you are going to read is one way that you can increase how fast you absorb what you are perusing. In most nonfiction books, it is common to see outlines and subheadings that can help you process the information. By quickly skimming through these, you will better understand the material you will be reading, which will allow you to read it much faster once you get down to it. The way you do this is simple: you skim the entire book looking at headings, subheadings, as well as the table of contents – basically anything that stands out. After doing this skimming process, you will prepare your mind to only absorb what is pertinent to what you are searching for, ignoring filler that would otherwise slow you down.
Improving your reading speed is not necessarily a matter of learning new skills. What you are really doing is unlearning how you have been reading all of these years, like a form of regressive therapy, and then replacing what you used to know with reading habits that are far more efficient. Your index finger should be regarded as a friend that is helping you read faster as you guide it along the page. After reading this article, all you have to do is start implementing the strategies we have given you. And soon, not only will you save time, but you will read more than ever before.
Introducing Effortless Speed Reading Plans was first posted on November 12, 2013 at 2:35 pm.
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