Reading everything faster, but efficiently - Blog by Vindhya C

🔉Read without the voice in your head : often times all of us read with a voice. We are used to this. Turns out that you can do without it. Read visually and don’t sound them in your head. ↔️When you’re reading(say in English) you typically read left to right, word by word. You do this because as a child you had to understand every word and you also read slower. But try this, when you now look at a word, you can see more than 1. That’s because our vision can accomodate more. So when you’re trying to read fast start from the middle of the line perhaps, because your vision will capture the rest of it as well and allows you to move quicker. 👆I didn’t know this when I grew up and considered this a sign of being weak at reading. The best way to read fast is to use your finger to follow the words. When you don’t have an active object to follow, your eyes don’t move as quickly. Try both ways and see the difference 📑 Before I pick a book I usually read a lot of summaries of it (ofc only for

🔉Read without the voice in your head : often times all of us read with a voice. We are used to this. Turns out that you can do without it. Read visually and don’t sound them in your head. ↔️When you’re reading(say in English) you typically read left to right, word by word. You do this because as a child you had to understand every word and you also read slower. But try this, when you now look at a word, you can see more than 1. That’s because our vision can accomodate more. So when you’re trying to read fast start from the middle of the line perhaps, because your vision will capture the rest