How To Learn Speed Reading
Reading is something that everyone should be able to do. It is an essential to life and if seems rather impossible for anyone to go about their day, without actually having to read something. As a result, we can determine just how important this simple skill is.
At the same time, most people tend to spend far too much time trying to read something. This could be because they just aren’t skilled in the art of reading, or because of the fact that they aren’t quite sure over how to read things rather quickly. This is a common problem that most people have, and speed reading is the solution to this rather simple but rather annoying problem.
Instructions
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Time yourself
The first step to build speed and start speed reading is to calculate your current reading speed. You need to find a book and select two pages off, of that book. Then you need to time yourself by using a stopwatch as you read through those pages.
This text will be your norm and will be used to check for improvements in the future. -
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Scan and break text
You need to learn how to break text into small portions to make it easier for yourself to read it. You can do this in a number of ways, but the best way to go about this is to practice by reading more and breaking text into more parts as you go along.
You also need to develop the ability to scan text documents. This requires you to scan the document, and pick out all the important nouns and verbs, this will help you decipher the context that the text is in and what it is talking about. This will also allow you to skip unnecessary words making it easier for you to read. -
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Use a finger to follow text
Another simple way to improve your reading speed is to use your finger to follow the part of the text you are reading. This will prevent you from losing focus on the text and will also keep reminding you exactly where you are.
This is disregarded by most readers, but it is one of the most effective ways to help improve your reading speed. -
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Practice
As is always the case, you need to keep practicing to get as good as you possibly will. Continuing to push yourself will improve your reading speed as the days go by.
