“It is unlikely that readers will be able to double or triple their reading speeds (e.g., from around 250 to 500–750 words per minute) while still being able to understand the text as well as if they read at normal speed.” “The research shows that there is a trade-off between speed and accuracy,” she and her colleagues write. Treiman is a co-author on a paper in the May edition of the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest that reviews the evidence for speed-reading, and mostly finds it lacking.
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Zacks and Rebecca Treiman, “taking in more information with each glance.” And this, essentially, is the basis of many of today’s technology-backed solutions for stuffing more words in your eyeballs, including apps that use rapid serial visual presentation - that is, they speed through words at a quicker rate than our eyes could alone. “The course focused on teaching people to make fewer back-and-forth eye movements across the page,” write Jeffrey M. As a pair of scientists who study reading wrote this weekend in the New York Times, Wood taught that slow readers are inefficient readers. The promise of speed-reading is a tantalizing one, which is no doubt the reason that the idea has been around since at least the 1950s, when Evelyn Wood came out with her Reading Dynamics training program. In comparison, even adults who would be considered “good readers” can only read about 200 to 400 words per minute. They were satisfied with her impromptu book report, which suggests Jones had successfully read the book at 4,200 words per minute. To prove that she’d actually read it, Jones - who has won the World Championship Speed Reading Competition six times - summarized the major plot points to a group of reporters.
In 2007, shortly after the final volume in the Harry Potter series was released, a woman named Anne Jones read all 784 pages in exactly 47 minutes.
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