I can concur with the reporter’s comments in that transcribing is faster for me (as a touch-typist), and more accurate. I can disconnect my brain when transcribing and just let the text flow from my visual center straight to my fingers. When transcribing properly you’re not actually “reading”—I, at least, retain very little of texts that I transcribe.
This is why learning to speed read is so difficult for me.
If I look at a word I’ve read and subvocalized it. I can’t not read a word that I look at. I can try to ignore parsing full sentences and their relation to each other, with limited success, but not at the scale of individual words or letters.
I can concur with the reporter’s comments in that transcribing is faster for me (as a touch-typist), and more accurate. I can disconnect my brain when transcribing and just let the text flow from my visual center straight to my fingers. When transcribing properly you’re not actually “reading”—I, at least, retain very little of texts that I transcribe.
This is why learning to speed read is so difficult for me.
If I look at a word I’ve read and subvocalized it. I can’t not read a word that I look at. I can try to ignore parsing full sentences and their relation to each other, with limited success, but not at the scale of individual words or letters.