Speed Reading Debate

That's not speed reading, that's reading.

speed reading ruined my reading comprehension and I never recovered from it. :-/

I can read faster than any human can speak intelligibly. Also, it's much easier to skip ahead with text.

Next hype: "Normal reading", synthesizing the benefits of Slow Reading and Fast Reading.

A method is to train yourself to another mode of reading which is much more visual:- Do not recite the read text using your inner monologue: process it purely visually- Start two or three words after the beginning of your sentence so it’s still on your visual field but not at the center- In the same manner you should be able to finish reading a sentence before your eyes gaze on the last wordYour reading speed in this mode should be a lot faster and becoming quicker with experience. H

I recommend learning to speed read. Your brain is capable of working out what the subject of a paragraph is before you've "read" it. Learning to trust that, and skip-read articles only slowing down for the interesting bits, is a great life skill :)

Reminds me of the quote "Speed reading is like reading - just without comprehension"

I can read pretty quickly (I've never really measured, but it takes me about a minute to read a page, which I guess is around 500 words). Depending on the text, though, there's a lot of slowing down or re-reading. I read Harry Potter pretty quickly, but "Thinking: Fast and Slow" is nowhere near at the same pace.

Maybe "speed readers" still receive knowledge at around 39bps - they just filter out a lot more.

If I want to quickly scan an article, I start by a few opening sentences, then go directly to the conclusion, and if it is not enough I will quickly scan the opening of some paragraphs to look for the most compelling arguments/experiments. I don't see how using something like Spritz I could be more efficient. The point is that you don't need to read every single word, even very quickly, to grasp the author's ideas. Maybe I am missing something ?