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How to learn speed reading?

Speed reading or the ability to read and absorb large volumes of text at a fast pace is an ability that nature endows some people with. But for the rest of humanity, deprived of such a gift, there is an opportunity to develop the ability to read quickly.

Why does a person need the ability to read quickly? In today's life, information is one of the most important elements of success. It is information resources that allow one to independently acquire knowledge, keep abreast of the latest changes in the surrounding reality, move in the same rhythm with the latest developments, master advanced technologies and remain always at the peak of activity. Even inveterate readers who do not like reading, one way or another, tend to get information by reading it: signs, advertisements, advertising posts, entertaining articles and notes, inscriptions near pictures, etc.

A high-speed life leaves less and less time for reading, which prompts many people to limit themselves in reading entertainment literature as an opportunity to relax, to give up additional education or a simple opportunity to expand their horizons.

Learning to read quickly is a way out of a situation when time is limited and information is limitless.

In addition to the fact that speed reading can be learned by correspondence or full-time education in special courses (the so-called speed reading schools), you can master it yourself, knowing several approaches to solving this issue.

The speed reading technique is easy to understand, and makes it possible to acquire this skill regardless of how the person himself assesses his abilities in this area.

The essence of the speed reading technique:

Studying in a regular school teaches reading skills with the element of speaking out loud or in mind of the read word. This skill is useful for focusing on spelling and pronunciation of a word. As a person matures, this skill becomes fixed on an unconscious level, and while it is good for developing literate writing and speaking, it is still a inhibitory effect on increasing reading speed.

It is precisely from pronouncing all the words read that one of the speed reading techniques relieves - an extraneous rhythmic sound during reading, which makes you distract from pronunciation and assimilate the meaning of what you read many times faster. Such a sound is created artificially, for example, rhythmic tapping on the tabletop or armrest of a chair (sofa) by the reader himself. At the initial stages of mastering the speed reading technique, while trying to simultaneously follow the rhythm of tapping and the meaning of what was read, a person is faced with the problem of scattered attention and cannot remember what he has read. But this problem arises only at the very beginning of training. The habit of simultaneously beating / listening to the rhythm and assimilating the meaning of the text being read quickly becomes fixed!

The second technique of speed reading is the use of lateral vision, when a person looks at the written text. Despite the fact that the human visual apparatus is designed for "direct viewing", human vision captures more extensive spaces than it might seem at first glance. We use this ability when we involuntarily react to the movement of objects to our side and slightly behind. The development of speed reading requires movement when reading with the eyes not from the beginning to the end of the line, but line by line downward, capturing with the peripheral vision areas of the text located, as it were, outside the zone of visibility. To do this, it is recommended to look at the text of the page not at its beginning, but in the middle, in this case, peripheral vision will allow you to read not only the middle of the written line, but at the same time its beginning and ending.

Try, looking exactly in the middle of the written line of text, read the words located on the sides of the set gaze, without turning your eyes to the left or right, and you will understand that you see the text and can read it without moving your eyes along the line.

The speed reading technique allows you not to read the test word by word and line by line, but to move along the page, from top to bottom, while capturing all areas of the written text, which creates the impression that a person does not read, but quickly scans page by page.

The result of mastering the speed reading technique is the emergence of the opportunity to read one book of 400 pages not for a month, but for several days and even hours, if the reading is going on continuously.