Speed Reading - Increase the speed you read at.Speed reading can help you to take in more information. In the last 20 years there has been an explosion in technology, with the rise of computers and the Internet. With the technological revolution has come our need to retrieve and take-in much more information than we ever have in the history of our race. This is where increasing your reading speed can help. Reading quickly can keep you on top of all the information that you encounter everyday and so it is an important component of time management and getting things done. There are a number of different methods which can increase the speed you read at. These methods include chunking and eliminating sub-vocalization. It is argued that there is a trade-off between reading rate and comprehension. With the faster that you read the less you comprehend. At the recent World championships the winners were able to read around 1000 - 2000 words per minute with approximately 50 percent comprehension. However there are documented examples of people people being able to read at 25,000 words per minute with perfect comprehension.
Ways to increase your reading speedYou learnt to read when you were a child, letter by letter, one one word at a time. As you are reading this, your eyes are moving over a couple of words at a time. This is known as a block of words.So as you read, you are reading in blocks of words. Somebody who reads quickly will read many words for each block. Speed reading courses often claim that they can get you to read up to 10 words per block. How many words are in your reading block? A quick reader will spend a very short time on each block, and thus be able to take in much more information that a poor reader. So to increase your reading speed you can increase the number of words that you read per block or the time spent on each block. Also a quick reader will spend less time than a poor reader on going back to blocks.
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