1/ Stop talking to yourself. Almost every reader "subvocalizes," or moves their throat as they imagine speaking the words.
This may help the reader remember concepts, but it's also a major barrier to speed. Here are a few ways to keep this habit to a minimum:
Chew gum or hum while you read. This occupies muscles used to subvocalize.
If you move your lips as you read, hold a finger against them.
2/ Cover words you've already read. When reading, your eyes often move back to earlier words. Most of the time, these are
short movements that probably don't improve understanding. Use an index card to cover words right after you read them,
training yourself not to overuse this habit.
These "regressions" also happen when you've failed to understand something. If your eyes jump several words or lines back,
that's a sign that you may need to slow down.
3/ Understand eye movements. While reading, your eyes move jerkily, stopping on some words and skipping others. You can only
read while your eyes are stopped. If you learn to make fewer movements per line, you'll read a lot faster. But be careful –
research reveals limits to how much English readers can see at once:
You can read eight letters to the right of your eye position, but only four to the left. This is roughly two or three words at a time.
You notice letters 9–15 spaces to the right, but can't read them clearly.
Normal readers don't process words on other lines. Training yourself to skip lines and still understand them would be very
difficult.
4/ Train your eyes to make fewer movements. Your brain normally decides where to move your eyes based on how long or
familiar the next words look.
You can read faster if you train your eyes to move to specific places on the page instead. Try this
exercise:
Place an index card over a line of text.
Write an X on the card, over the first word.
Write another X on the same line. Place it three words further for good understanding, five words for easy texts, or seven
words
to skim the main points.
Write more Xs at the same spacing, until you reach the end of the line.
Read quickly as you move the index card down, trying to only focus your eyes just below each X.
Set a pace faster than you can understand. Many programs claim to increase your reading speed by training your reflexes first,
then practicing until your brain can catch up. This has not been thoroughly studied. It certainly increases the speed you move
through the text, but you may understand little or nothing. Try this if you want to aim for extreme speed reading, and you might
understand more after a few days of practice. Here's how:
Move a pencil along the text. Time this so you can say "one one thousand" at a calm pace and finish just as you reach the end of
a line.
Spend two minutes trying to read at the pace of the pencil. Even if you can't understand anything, stay focused on the text and
keep your eyes moving for the entire two minutes.
Rest for a minute, then go even faster. Spend three minutes trying to read at the pace of a pen that moves across two lines
every time you say "one one thousand"
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