are you a speed reader?
I can get through a book fast but it doesn't translate a laptop.
share"I can get through a book fast but it doesn't translate a laptop."
What are you trying to say here, that you can read text on paper quickly but not text on a screen quickly?
Anyone can read quickly... but to retain, process, and comprehend is quite different. Speed reading is like selective hearing, you miss quite a bit but heard enough to get by if someone asks questions.
i meant reading and retaining info. otherwise, it's pointless.
shareWhich is why speed reading is pointless.
sharenot if you retain the info
shareBut speed readers don't. All speed readers think they do but it's been proven time and time again that the brain speed reads by reducing the amount of time actually thinking about and digesting what is being read. Similar to how it's been proven multiple times that the brain isn't capable of multitasking but people still insist they're really good at it (what the brain actually does is switch between two tasks rapidly, doing both poorly)
shareWhen you speed read, you can take in significantly more information than the average person. A recent study suggests that the average adult can read about 300 words per minute. Proficient speed readers can read around 1,500 words per minute.
shareLifehack, using a forbes blog post as a source only for how fast a human can read, not for how much information is retained... the claim is that the brain just automatically retains everything is reads and thus they take in more information the faster they read. If you weren't speed reading, you would have caught this was an unfounded claim.
http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/reprints/Buchweitz_Just_Brain-Lang-2014_speedreading_reprint.pdf
Using real science, not internet science.
Early studies of eye-fixations during speed reading reported that speed readers skipped large portions of the text and that their eye fixations traced a path different from the traditional left-to-right path of normal English readers (McLaughlin, 1969; Taylor, 1962). Just and Carpenter (1992) found that trained speed readers showed better speeded comprehension of high-level information than untrained speed readers, but only when the rapid reading was of a text on a familiar topic. Trained speed readers were better able than untrained speed readers to use their previous knowledge to bridge the information gaps that occur during speed reading (Just & Carpenter, 1992). Thus, speed reading may evoke strategies that focus on global coherence at the expense of local coherence, but such strategies may only be effective for familiar topics. Untrained readers, when faced with the novel task of speed reading, might rely more on executive control processes. In one fMRI study of trained and untrained speed readers of Japanese, trained speed readers’ activation of the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG, or Broca’s Area) and the left posterior superior temporal gyrus (Wernicke’s Area) decreased during speed reading, in comparison with normal reading (Fujimaki, Hayakawa, Munetsuna, & Sasaki, 2004). According to the authors, the results suggest that trained speed readers bypass phonological processes during speed reading.
There are probably various definitions , and even techniques of speed reading.
I would not count any version where you dont take in (and retain - same thing) as reading.
I'd say default reading speed is the same as average talking speed.
If im really into a novel i could probaly speed that up by 3x , and still take absolutely everything in.
Somebody trying to learn some academinc subject , and using some patented "read evey other line , look for the long words" crappy technique is going to do a lot less well .
The science shows you don't, you believe you do because there is no control in your test. Humans are very good at taking shortcuts and feeling that we're superior for having taken a shortcut. No version of speed reading exists where you retain in the same amount of information as if you slowly read and thought over what was happening... science debunked speed reading.
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