Reading a book of pages in one sitting isn't that easy because there are many To be explicit, I earned a BA and an MA without ever having to read " quickly," threads and the resolution of plots helping you mow through it to success.
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It does take time to practice but the rewards are great I suppose. This one is even better: This for me is the efficiency equivalent of the invention of OCR in scanning — especially when it is so easy to have wish lists on services like shelfari, but so little time to actually read them. Very simply just using a pointing device to help the eye track increases reading speeds. My personal preference to training increased reading is to go far faster than possible, not just 3x.
In the beginning they eyes might get only one or two words. Yet after seconds, the brain starts to learn and expand that. Other tools for training the peripheral vision are some of the games on lumosity and other similar web sites. Then we go the other side and train how to read the page in one second, although that takes a bit more effort, training and experience. I will put this technique to practice and keep reading your posts, it took a while for me to post a comment but I think you are the real thing.
People are asking whether given target speed of wpm, one must practice for 2, wpm i. Or else, you should say 2x. Or correct the article. Do you retain things and are the skills lost if you stop practicing? The potential for increased productivity and effectiveness is enormous. Keep leading us to the promised land, Tim. This is pretty old information. What I mean by that is it has had time for debunking. There is no magic here, and there is no requirement to read beyond comprehension rate when actually reading for recall.
The conditioning and drilling is a different matter with a different purpose. If you just make better use of peripheral vision, reduce fixation time and duration, you are not missing ANY content whatsoever. The speed then, is up to you. Yep the peripheral vision is key to the boost in reading speed while retaining same comprehension. Speed reading helps me find those key points more quickly, and if I want, I can slow down for comprehension at such key parts of the text.
It should make my work much more efficient, and I plan to teach my children this in homeschooling. It impedes their performance significantly, in spite of their being highly intelligent. Four to six months of training fixes it. Would mind sharing with us what is the precticing routine you have used with them in these 6 months?
Btw, have u ever tried or heard any feedback on other famous speedreading techniques? Using this approach on the Made to Stick book, my wpm went from to Those techniques leading up to the second testing, definitely train the eyes to move more efficiently. About two years ago, I did a similar but much less documented program, which drastically helped.
How I Read A 300 Pages in One Sitting
Thanks for posting this Tim. Many people have started suggesting speed reading to me since I am starting grad school in the fall. God I wish I learned some of these techniques in time for University. Way too much time wasted on reading crap I needed just for an exam. I unconsciously do some of these techniques, however, I need to take the time and learn the proper ones and really start cooking.
Its like you read my mind! Have you gone beyond these steps mentioned and focused on other resources for further mastery? And as the poster Tyler asked what are your thoughts on photo reading? I tested PhotoReading when it first appeared on the scene and was being advertised heavily on TV.
I have yet to meet anyone who can demonstrate it live and then undergo any type of comprehension or recall testing. Here are my experiences: At the moment, I am testing myself. One night I dreamed of the pages. In my dream I was able to see the pages but the Text was not sharp, so I was not able to read conscious within my dream. Sometimes I imagine without timestopping , that speedreading goes faster when photoreading ahead.
Sometimes when speedreading I rerecognize pages and know that I have seen them before. For the time being, I will continue to be very selective about what I read low-information diet to minimize the time spent with reading. Reading a book by A. Huxley about the art of seeing, in which he describes how he manged to heal strong his seeing problems, I figured out that while trying to photoread I had the wrong focus with my eyes. While learning the photofocus I tryed to reach a visonable expression like described by Scheele in his book. Actually I figured out that I did not focus on a thing which is farer away than the book.
Instead my visual focus was set up for seeing things very close. To test if you do the same mistake you can use a pen and move it infront of your eyes while beeing in the wrong photo focus. If you see the pen shark, I think, than you do it wrong. I will give it an other try after having learned to focus in the distance. What might improve my eyes too as Scheele describes too. Next to the exercices of the bates method. The experiences I made with sunlight concerning the Bates method, are positive.
At least in the moment just after the exercise. It really depends on what you are reading. Sometimes it is necessary to slow down and let your mind and emotions catch up with what you have read. Not everything should be read quickly. It is somewhat akin to inline skating through the Louvre. Sure you can see everything 10 times as fast, but you miss details along the way.
Speed reading is basically scanning. With that said, I had a professor once who could scan long reports in seconds and give detailed feedback. Maybe I just need more practice. Thank for the great post. I just did the exercises in the article. I practiced photoreading quite a bit in college while cramming for exams. I found that I could not effectively recall the information for essay questions and oral exams, but it seemed to really help with multiple choice questions.
Then again, maybe I just got good at taking MC tests. Any way I have been implimenting 4-HWW principals for about 2 years now and am loving life on my own terms! Thanks again and best of luck on your next book amigo! Sometimes for me it is hard to deal with the fact that education is not directly income generating. Let me add to this something that I learned when I took my first speed reading course.
I did it when I was an institutional broker for a large investment bank in London. He was teaching a class in Oxford. His first student came into the room and sat very near him. Seinfeld would have called him a close talker, I believe. As the tuition began, the first speed reading accessment came in. On average, most people read about words per minute, or about as fast as we talk, as we sound the words in our head as we read.
This kid came in at 1, words per minute. The instructor was astounded. Now most people, after trying and improving a few times, you can get over 1, words — I hit over 1, per minute — but it takes a couple of tries. This kid was doing 1, per minute every time, without the tuition. They just look at shapes. Much like Su Doku, which is NOT a numbers game, just a game played with numbers, you need to get 9 shapes in a square, row, or line without repeating.
Like Liked by 4 people. I think it will stick with practice. Great post Tim, and awesome comment Sean about the deaf person who is seeing the word versus saying it in his mind! Good things really do come to those who wait! You have both refuelled my drive to research alternate ways of teaching my struggling students to read.
You have singlehandedly managed to change my way of learning, you introduced me to subvocalization and the effects it has on my reading efficiency.. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Thanks for posting this. Finally someone tells us the actual science behind speed reading. This stuff actually works. I suggest you review you referencing. People are judgrd by the company they keep. I shot my Words Per Minute WPM rate up very quickly from to with just a few practice runs using this easy and fun program!! I was considering the speed reading exercises for some time now. At least when it comes to casual reading for pleasure I mean. However when it comes to work I would really like to improve my speed. I often need to look through hundreds of pages in a short time.
I have yet to do the exercise but I am hopeful for the wpm increase. I will be testing it in a foreign language, namely Polish. I thought it would be interesting if we could compare the results for different languages. You said it was tested in five Which ones? Has this been posted before? Maybe it was in the book? I remember it from someplace.
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Naysayers, it really works. But thats usually after a couple days living in airports. Thanks to all of you for the great comments and dialogue! You said that the above post is a concise version of the actual course you taught at Princeton. Could you post the pdf containing transcripts of the entire course material so that those interested in following the entire PX project seminar, could go through all the contents of that course.
Tim, very interesting post indeed. For online material, I recommend spreed! Set the speed to 4 times target, read it, then 2 times target, read it, then target speed. You will not understand the first two passes, but will do surprisingly well at your target speed! Also, use this bookmarklet, which I modified from the site to handle apostrophes and bad Unicode characters:.
Another one that I have been using as a resource is http: I hope to meet you one day and have been a big fan for years! Thanks but how to apply this with reading on computer screen? I have the same concern with my mobile phone. I read a lot on its little screen but I feel it is not fast enough. I find I can use vertical peripheral for predictable nonchallenging text, skipping like this: Granted this is faster.
Do I need to train it as a habit? I already haphazardly picked up speed reading principles and do use them when comprehension load is light. Will I see a further major cognitive processing benefit by practicing? Or is the real bottleneck cognition past a certain basic proficiency? For example, when consciously using physical saccajumps I will still regress back to ponder over new things, like the sacca word. Does this go away with training?
Or is cognition the bottleneck at that point? I agree with JB. I found myself naturally doing that.
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If you build a two-dimensional map of the text in your head, piecing it together using alternating ends of a line lets you scan the page faster. Sounds just like the adapted version of an Evelyn Wood-style speed reading class I took as a kid in high school. Here are some comments that fit with my experience;. I remember seeing someone speed read in high school and always lwanted to learn. I forgot about this for a long time.
Really, thanks for posting this. I need to read much faster… would save me tons of time with my website and other job. Just read about this in your book the other day. Back-reading is a major issue when it comes to increasing your speed, so these are great tips. If you read this article, you can pretty much scrap any speed-reading book out there.
This is an excellent summary, written in readable English, of what countless books on the subject with regurgitate. This is a prime example of results vs. Tim Ferriss, author of the 4- Hour Workweek and a handful of other bestsellers, is one of the leading voices in lifehacks, experiments, and getting things done. Ferriss calls this second technique Perceptual Expansion. The below image from eyetracking. Rapid eye movements called saccades occur constantly as we read and as our eyes jump from margins to words.
Minimizing these is a key way to boost your reading times. If you can advance your peripheral vision, you may be able to read faster—maybe not percent faster, but every little bit counts. Spritz and Blinkist take unique approaches to helping you read more—one helps you read faster and the other helps you digest books quicker. As mentioned above in the speed reading section, there is a lot of wasted movement when reading side-to-side and top-to-bottom.
Spritz cuts all the movement out entirely. Spritz shows one word of an article or book at a time inside a box. Spritz has yet to launch anything related to its technology, but there is a bookmarklet called OpenSpritz , created by gun. The Spritz website has a demo on the homepage that you can try for yourself and speed up or slow down the speeds as you need.
Along with Spritz is the new app Blinkist. Rather than a reimagining of the way we read, Blinkist is a reimagining of the way we consume books. Based on the belief that the wisdom of books should be more accessible to us all, Blinkist takes popular works of non-fiction and breaks the chapters down into bite-sized parts. Though the way the information is delivered—designed to look great and be eminently usable on mobile devices so you can learn wherever you are—makes it one-of-a-kind.
How does he do it? He makes it a priority, and he cuts out time from other activities. The lone exception to this is during football season where I watch one game a week. If you look at it in terms of raw numbers, the average person watches 35 hours of TV each week, the average commute time is one hour per day round-trip, and you can spend at least another hour per week for grocery shopping. Certainly the technology is intended to be easy-to-use, portable, and convenient.
Those factors alone could make it easier to spend more time reading when you have a spare minute. Perhaps the key to reading more books is simply to look at the act of reading from a different perspective? How might these new definitions alter your reading total for the year? A great place to start with book retention is with understanding some key ways our brain stores information. Here are three specific elements to consider:. You loved the information and want to remember as much as possible. Impression — Be impressed with the text.
Stop and picture a scene in your mind, even adding elements like greatness, shock, or a cameo from yourself to make the impression stronger. If Dale Carnegie is explaining his distaste for criticism, picture yourself receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace and then spiking the Nobel Prize onto the dais. Another trick with impression is to read an important passage out loud.
For some of us, our sensitivity to information can be greater with sounds rather than visuals. Association — Link the text to something you already know. This technique is used to great effect with memorization and the construction of memory palaces. Prior knowledge is a great way to build association. Repetition — The more you repeat, the more you remember. This can occur by literally re-reading a certain passage or in highlighting it or writing it down then returning to it again later.
Practicing these three elements of remembering will help you get better and better. Focus on the four levels of reading. Each step builds upon the previous step. Elementary reading is what you are taught in school. Inspectional reading can take two forms: Where the real work and the real retention begins is with analytical reading and syntopical reading. With analytical reading, you read a book thoroughly. More so than that even, you read a book according to four rules, which should help you with the context and understanding of the book.
The final level of reading is syntopical, which requires that you read books on the same subject and challenge yourself to compare and contrast as you go. As you advance through these levels, you will find yourself incorporating the brain techniques of impression, association, and repetition along the way. Keep the book close or at least your notes on the book. One of the most common threads in my research into remembering more of the books you read is this: Use your Kindle Highlights extensively. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street is a serial note taker , and he finds himself constantly returning to the books he reads.
After I finish a book, I let it age for a week or two and then pick it up again. I write them down. Or let it age for another week or two. Once forgetfulness has set in, he can use these notes to rediscover his opinion of the author and his work at the time of his original reading. We can assume that another function of the notes is to assure him that he has indeed read the works in which they were inscribed, like blazes on a trail that are intended to show the way during future periods of amnesia.
I look at books as investments in a future of learning rather than a fleeting moment of insight, soon to be forgotten. Kindle has a rather helpful feature online, too, where it shows you a daily, random highlight from your archive of highlights. Let it be as simple as possible to complete so that you can make sure you follow through.
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How many books do you read each year? What will be your goal for this year? Patrick Gage via Compfight , eyetracking. Originally written Jun 24, Last updated Sep 7, Director of Marketing at Buffer. You can find me online, tweeting about my writing process, or at home, second-guessing football coaches. Live simply, give generously, beat cancer. That was a pretty cool test! Better go pick up a book today…. Thanks for sharing this, Laura!
So I simply remove the log the book. Have you tried it for yourself? A few of us here at Buffer use it to read articles. I bookmarked the little javascript thing. I tried it yesterday some and I certainly read fast. Still getting used to it.
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I listen to audiobooks during my commute to and from work and take notes on Evernote on my phone.. Audiobooks is a great suggestion! So neat how you incorporate the audiobooks with note taking. Check out the Library of Classics at http: I use my ipod for books, sermons, lectures, etc. I can easily enough connect it to speakers and I also use it in my car.
There are apps that work with your local library that allow you to borrow audiobooks for no charge. Absolutely — listening to audio books on my commute has restored my previous voracious reading habits which had got squeezed out by being just too busy. I love audio books since it allows me to imagine the scene as a steady pace.
It is much like rendering scenes very quickly. I set a simpler goal this year something more achievable! Concentrate on the story and get excited about what you're reading. An old teacher taught me a trick that really helps with this. When you read, become aware of the little voice inside your head that's doing the reading. Does it sound like you? Does it sound like anything at all? Grasp that voice, and turn it into the voice of someone else.
It can be someone you know, a fictional character, or anyone whose voice holds your attention. Now keep on reading, but in that person's voice. It will be a lot easier to pay attention. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 8. Get some recommendations from friends who share your interests. You could also check online for the current top ten current best-sellers in the genre that most interests you.
Not Helpful 2 Helpful You can read at least 22 pages a day: Not Helpful 21 Helpful This is ultimately up to you. If you enjoy the book, you will find yourself reading many pages in just a few minutes.
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Also, eliminating distractions could aid in your goal. Not Helpful 12 Helpful When I'm reading, I'll read the first 5 chapters as a test. If I like the first 5 chapters, then I'll like the book. If I don't like the first 5 chapters, I'll put it down and pick a different book. If the boring book is mandatory, keep an open mind about it and you might end up liking it. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 8. Ask someone to give you a synopsis about it so you have some idea of what it's about. If you don't know anyone who's read it, check Amazon.
Not Helpful 6 Helpful How do I read a book that's pages long in a day? I have to do it for homework, and I've left it last minute. That's going to be tough. Focus on your book and get through as much as you can. Next time plan your reading so you can finish on time. Not Helpful 10 Helpful Sure, depending on how easy the reading material is and how quick of a reader you are. If the two books are part of the same series, it could be tempting to jump straight into the next novel without thinking. Just take breaks every now and again to get up and stretch and give your eyes a rest.
Not Helpful 7 Helpful It depends on how long it is and how much you truly want to finish it. It has to be a book that you really like, and that you won't get bored of. You need to be fully committed. Just find a comfortable, quiet place and start reading. Don't let anything distract you. Also, try not to think of anything but what you are reading about while reading. Not Helpful 7 Helpful 9. I have a friend who reads every day. If a chapter is dragging along, he skips and goes to the next chapter, and if he doesn't like the book, he throws it away and gets another.
Is this good practice? Well, he seems to know what he likes. As long as his reading isn't for academic purposes where he'd really need to have read the entire , there's no reason to fret over it. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 4. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Already answered Not a question Bad question Other.
Tips Always try to read in a faster and more focused way. Don't neglect your chores and other responsibilities throughout the day. Consider it a learning experience and try to find ways to get through your novel faster next time. Warnings If you ever feel dizzy, get an intense headache, or experience any other discomfort, stop reading and take a break.