11-28-2023, 12:22 PM
In my experience, speed reading and comprehension has always been about knowing which words to just "tune out" of a sentence.
the CAT is EATTING the DOG'S FOOD again.
You can read each word of that sentence, and read 8 words. Or, you can ignore the lowercase words and just skim the capitalized words and read half as much. Either way, your general comprehension of what that sentence pertains to, isn't going to change. If I ask, "Who was doing what?", you'd have no issue answering either way.
The true trick to speed reading, I think, isn't how fast you can read. It's how quickly your eyes can recognize those words which you can just skip over, to get to the bread and butter content of a sentence/paragraph/page.
And, if you know the formalized structure of what the other person is talking about, you can break down and skim/skip whole segments of what you're reading without losing anything. Take for example, a school essay. First couple of chapters is the introduction-- basically the title regurgitated in long form. Then you have the body... Here, you ned to pay more attention to comprehend what they're going on about. Followed by the conclusion which you can just skim as all it does is sum up the author's opinion on whatever they're writing about.
Skip inconsequential words. Skim intro and conclusion. You can "read" that whole essay in 30 seconds!
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But the problem comes in, "How do you build an app to teach that?"
the CAT is EATTING the DOG'S FOOD again.
You can read each word of that sentence, and read 8 words. Or, you can ignore the lowercase words and just skim the capitalized words and read half as much. Either way, your general comprehension of what that sentence pertains to, isn't going to change. If I ask, "Who was doing what?", you'd have no issue answering either way.
The true trick to speed reading, I think, isn't how fast you can read. It's how quickly your eyes can recognize those words which you can just skip over, to get to the bread and butter content of a sentence/paragraph/page.
And, if you know the formalized structure of what the other person is talking about, you can break down and skim/skip whole segments of what you're reading without losing anything. Take for example, a school essay. First couple of chapters is the introduction-- basically the title regurgitated in long form. Then you have the body... Here, you ned to pay more attention to comprehend what they're going on about. Followed by the conclusion which you can just skim as all it does is sum up the author's opinion on whatever they're writing about.
Skip inconsequential words. Skim intro and conclusion. You can "read" that whole essay in 30 seconds!
....
But the problem comes in, "How do you build an app to teach that?"