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Things you just don't get

LawrenceMD

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Most speed reading is hokum. Those that actually are effective do not promote comprehension.


speed reading in a science level usually entails faster reading of something, but actually requires you to read it twice or thrice for complete comprehension.

so in the same amount of time you read a 50 page chapter in a medical text book you're supposed to have read it twice/thrice over.

my elementary and middle school in rhode island actually had these old school speed reading projector machines that would time each slide and had options to scroll across single lines or show the whole page for increasingly less and less amounts of times afterwards the teacher would test you on what you read.
 

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I have always wondered if a speed reader could comprehend a dense book.


I am a very fast reader. I've looked at descriptions of speed reading in the past, and many of them line up with my habits, though they just evolved organically for me by being a very bookish child. I can't remember ever sub-vocalizing, for example, unless I try to.

Yes, I can comprehend a dense book. However, I indeed can't read it at nearly the speed I can read a lot of lighter fare. I'll probably read it faster than most people do, but I'm not going to hit the same 15 seconds a page I can hit with something like Dan Brown.
 
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Thomas

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my lips move as I read. is that worth bragging about?
 

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I'm an incredibly slow reader. Is that worth bragging about?


I didn't really intend to brag, I just intended to establish background for the statement I made.

my lips move as I read. is that worth bragging about?


Yeah, you should probably stop doing that, voices in your head while you're reading slow you down. Grok the words.
 
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Nope. Is that a member somewhere around here or the nickname of a Russian mobster?
 

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Yes, I can comprehend a dense book. However, I indeed can't read it at nearly the speed I can read a lot of lighter fare. I'll probably read it faster than most people do, but I'm not going to hit the same 15 seconds a page I can hit with something like Dan Brown.


Wait, 15 SECONDS per page? Seriously???
 

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Wait, 15 SECONDS per page? Seriously???


That's about my top speed on low density pulp fiction. With the heavy nonfiction and more literary stuff that makes up the bulk of what I read, it takes me a little longer. A quick test over two pages of A Thousand Days with a stopwatch, just for curiosity's sake, yields about 35 seconds a page.

Some of the ads for those speed reading courses say they can get you to 6 seconds a page, but I've never come close to that.
 
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Gummy bears. They suck ass. If you're going to shove **** down into your gullet, at least make sure it's wild berry skittles or something that tastes good.
 

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