I was shown that I can reach effective reading speeds of something like thousands of words per minute, with decent retention, by quenching the subvocalization reflex and just forcing words to fly past my eyes. The trick is to stop every paragraph and summarize what you just read. Doing this is exhausting and I haven’t kept up the skill.
I was shown that I can reach effective reading speeds of something like thousands of words per minute, with decent retention, by quenching the subvocalization reflex and just forcing words to fly past my eyes. The trick is to stop every paragraph and summarize what you just read. Doing this is exhausting and I haven’t kept up the skill.