In the 1950s, she claimed that she could read at up to 2,700 wpm if she swept a finger along the line as she read. Utah school teacher Evelyn Nielsen Wood was one of the pioneers of speed reading. Now let's look at three methods to boost your reading speed: 1. This will help to stop pauses in your reading (often at full points), meaning that you scan across and down to the next line more quickly. Then, when you approach the end of a line, allow your peripheral vision to take your eye to the final set of words. As you practice this, your eyes will skip faster across the page. Do this by relaxing your face and "softening" or expanding your gaze on the page, so that you stop seeing words as single, distinct units. One way to stop yourself from sub-vocalizing is to focus on blocks of words rather than on individual ones.
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How to Speed ReadĪll speed reading techniques have one thing in common: you avoid pronouncing and "hearing" each word in your head as you read it, a process known as as "sub-vocalization." Instead, you "skim" lines or groups of words, as you can understand words more quickly than you can say them. We'll now explore some of the skills that you can use to accelerate your reading. But, the ability to speed read could mean that you double this rate. Most people read at an average rate of 250 words per minute (wpm), though some are naturally quicker than others.
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