Ron White time USA memory champion, founder brainathlete.com is going to teach you how
to speed read.
You do this and you are going to double your reading speed, I promise you.
First thing you need to tell me is how fast you read.
So get yourself a book that you have never read before.
Not a technical manual but some normal book.
Then I want you to time yourself and read for 5, 4 minutes.
At the end of the 5 minutes mark where you stop.
Then go back and I want you to count the number of words in the first 4Êlines and divide
by 4 and that is going to tell you how many average words there are per line.
Now go and count how many lines you read, multiply that by the average word per line
and you will get how any words you read.
Then simply divide that number by 5Êand you have your reading speed.
So sounds complicated and I hate to bring Math and this is but very simple.
Read for 5 minutes, then figure out how many average words are there per line by calculating
that in the first four lines, multiply it by the number of lines you read and then divide
by 5 for the words per minute.
The average person reads 175 to 250 words per minute with comprehension and if any of
that didn't make sense you got to have to figure it out, go back and re-read it.
This is why you read slow.
The average person who reads the sentence "The dog ran with the boy" would read the
sentence "the dog".
'The dog ran", "the dog ran with", "the dog ran with the" and "the dog ran with the boy".
It is called visual regression and you don't realize your eye is doing it because this
it is doing it so rapidly that you don't even notice it but because your eye is doing it
is slowing your eye down.
In order to sped read you have to keep your eye moving at a steady quick pace.
If you don't, trust me your eye is going to bounce all over the page and it is going to
read this sentence "the dog ran with the boy".
It is going to read that "the dog", the dog ran", "the dog ran with", "The dog ran with
the" and "the dog ran with the boy" and it is going to slow you down.
It is called visual regression.
The biggest key to speed reading is keeping your eye moving in a fluid motion.
Keep it moving in a fluid pattern so you just see this sentence and then you keep moving.
I have watched people double their reading speed just by learning how to keep their eye
moving.
Now the next thing that is going to slow you down about reading is you verbalize the words.
In other words you are sounding the words out.
Whenever you are reading, you are reading yourself.
For eg, you will read this "Don't verbalize each word!
Don't read to yourself".
Don't verbalize each word.
This is how your eye moving.
Use your hand motion.
This is called the "Push".
I want you to pretend like each one of these Xs on the screen is a word and I want you
to pretend like that line is the pattern of your finger.
Pretend like your finger starts at the top left hand corner, put your finger at the top
left hand corner and then just push it along the page and force your eye to follow your
finger.
If you force your eye to follow your finger you will be amazed at how fast you read.
Force your finger to go faster than you think is possible.
When you see these speed readers and their rubbing the pages you know what they are actually
doing?
They are just forcing their eye to follow their finger.
If you looked at Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address and you wanted to speed read it you
would, instead of reading it "Four score and seven", 'four score and seven years ago",
"four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth", that is how the average mind
would read it.
The mind that speed read would put the finger underneath the first word and then just move
the finger along the page and that way you are only reading each word watched.
Try to learn to see groups of words but this is really the biggest key and the best key
to reading faster.
Trust your brain.
Don't sound out the words.
Read faster than you think is possible and remember when I first started to memorize
a deck of cards, the best advice I ever got was go faster than you think is possible.
Test your reading speed.
Do what I suggested and then I want you to read the way I suggest, with your finger and
not sound out the words for 5 minutes and see if you are reading speed has improved.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.