You are failing to distinguish the claim “It’s possible to read faster” with “There’s is single easy trick of removing subvocalization that will make you read faster without.”
A big aspect of why the article from Scott is noteworthy is because Scott used to make money with promoting speed reading (it was one of his top blog posts) and later changed his mind. He’s not someone who started out skeptic.
Today, we do have the ability to speed up podcast we hear by 4X and it’s people can still process the audio. While following a podcast along at 4x isn’t easy, it’s possible.
Googling finds me: “The provided book at the 2021 championship consisted of total 15,823 words which Emma Alam read in 20 minutes and 4 seconds at 789 words per minute with the extraordinary comprehension of 97%”
Given the way the human eye works 20000wpm seems implausible. That number suggests that people can read without being able to use the eye to focus to see individual letters.
You are failing to distinguish the claim “It’s possible to read faster” with “There’s is single easy trick of removing subvocalization that will make you read faster without.”
A big aspect of why the article from Scott is noteworthy is because Scott used to make money with promoting speed reading (it was one of his top blog posts) and later changed his mind. He’s not someone who started out skeptic.
Today, we do have the ability to speed up podcast we hear by 4X and it’s people can still process the audio. While following a podcast along at 4x isn’t easy, it’s possible.
Googling finds me: “The provided book at the 2021 championship consisted of total 15,823 words which Emma Alam read in 20 minutes and 4 seconds at 789 words per minute with the extraordinary comprehension of 97%”
Given the way the human eye works 20000wpm seems implausible. That number suggests that people can read without being able to use the eye to focus to see individual letters.