Spritz seems legit...
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Just tested, normal reading ~180 words per minute
I didnt' have issues with 500 wpm, 400 was more comfortable for me and still doubles my productivity.
I didnt' have issues with 500 wpm, 400 was more comfortable for me and still doubles my productivity.
Yea I seriously want this, it's sick. I wish I could try faster than 500 wpm, I think I can read faster.
Same here. I wonder what's the retention at that speed when you're reading something a bit more complex than a sales pitch.
I think that it would cause issues with less familiar words or words you don't patterns memorized.
If this works with normal and longer texts this would be really sick! Especially for someone like me who usually reads very slowly and tends to re-read every second line..
When you guys do Spritz, doesn't it sound like you're spitting the words out in your head or something?
The negatives of this is that you can't simply skim the Table of contents, headings, and whatever else in a book/doc to get the meaning out of it. Like, for so many research papers, I only read the abstract and ToC and conclusion lol.
Also, I wouldn't read a pleasure novel with this either.
Legal docs would be a pain in the ass with Spritz too.
Maybe all its good for is reading eBooks that you bought off of CB since the reading level is pretty low usually.
The negatives of this is that you can't simply skim the Table of contents, headings, and whatever else in a book/doc to get the meaning out of it. Like, for so many research papers, I only read the abstract and ToC and conclusion lol.
Also, I wouldn't read a pleasure novel with this either.
Legal docs would be a pain in the ass with Spritz too.
Maybe all its good for is reading eBooks that you bought off of CB since the reading level is pretty low usually.
I wonder if you could further increase your reading speeds if you practice phrase reading and it just blinked blocks of 4-5 words..
Meh, it does increase my speed a little, but... if I'm reading anything near important I also need time to digest what I'm reading.
Try 'speed reading' through Ca$hvertising or the art of war and you will have read it, but will you really 'understand' and apply? That type of books I might read at 80 words per minute or less because I have to think, not just read.
For reading the news it is great, still, I'm more about quality/thought process than ego tripping about how many books I've read/how fast I read.
Try 'speed reading' through Ca$hvertising or the art of war and you will have read it, but will you really 'understand' and apply? That type of books I might read at 80 words per minute or less because I have to think, not just read.
For reading the news it is great, still, I'm more about quality/thought process than ego tripping about how many books I've read/how fast I read.
Yeah, I've been nutting over this myself. I just didn't want to be the reposter from Reddit, but this is so legit.
I can't help but think that it's possible to train our WPM up to something significant. Similar to Neo learning how to fly a helicopter, if we could slowly work ourselves up to 2000 WPM (retained)....that'd be some gnar....
I can't help but think that it's possible to train our WPM up to something significant. Similar to Neo learning how to fly a helicopter, if we could slowly work ourselves up to 2000 WPM (retained)....that'd be some gnar....
I get this too.
I like reading faster, 500 wpm was easy when I just sat back and let it happen... but in my head it sounds like Microsoft Sam.