How to learn to read quickly but understand. Skip what you already know

Back in 1998, Princeton University hosted a Project PX seminar on high speed reading. This post is an excerpt of information from that seminar, gleaned from this article, and personal experience of speeding up reading.

So, "Project PX" is a three-hour cognitive experiment that allows you to increase your reading speed by 386%. The experiment was conducted on people speaking five languages, and even dyslexics were trained to read up to 3,000 words of technical text per minute, 10 pages of text. Page in 6 seconds.

By comparison, the average reading speed in the US is between 200 and 300 words per minute. We have, due to the peculiarities of the language, from 120 to 180 words per minute. And you can easily increase your rates to 700-900 words per minute.

All that is needed is to understand the principles by which human vision works, what time is wasted in the process of reading and how to stop wasting it. When we analyze the mistakes and practice not making them, you will read several times faster, and not mindlessly running your eyes, but perceiving and remembering all the information you read.

Are you ready to start experimenting? Then let's start.

You will need:

• a book of at least 200 pages;
• pen or pencil;
• timer.

The book should lie in front of you without closing (press the pages if it tries to close without support).

For one exercise session, you will need at least 20 minutes. Make sure that no one distracts you during this time.

And before jumping right into the exercises, here are a few quick tips on how to increase your reading speed.

Make as few stops as possible when reading a line of text

When we read, the eyes move through the text not smoothly, but in jumps. Each such jump ends with fixing your attention on a part of the text or stopping your gaze at areas of about a quarter of a page, as if you were taking a picture of this part of the sheet.

Each stop of the eyes on the text lasts from 1/4 to 1/2 second.

To feel this, close one eye and lightly press the eyelid with the tip of your finger, and with the other eye try to slowly slide over the line of text. The jumps become even more obvious if you slide not along the letters, but simply along a straight horizontal line:

Well, how do you feel the jumps?

Try to go back through the text as little as possible

A person who reads at an average pace quite often goes back to reread a missed moment. This can happen consciously or unconsciously. In the latter case, the subconscious itself returns its eyes to the place in the text where concentration was lost.

On average, conscious and unconscious returns back through the text take up to 30% of the time.

Train your concentration to increase the coverage of words read in one stop

People with an average reading speed use central focus rather than horizontal peripheral vision. Due to this, they perceive half as many words in one jump of vision.

Train Skills Separately

The exercises are different and you don't have to try to combine them into one. For example, if you are practicing reading speed, don't worry about text comprehension. You will progress through three stages in sequence: learning technique, applying technique to increase speed, and reading comprehension.

Rule of thumb: Practice your technique at three times your desired reading speed. For example, if your current reading speed is somewhere around 150 words per minute, and you want to read 300 words per minute, you need to practice reading 900 words per minute.

Step One: Determine Initial Reading Speed

To begin with, we consider how many words fit in five lines of text, divide this number by five and round it up. I counted 40 words in five lines: 40:5 = 8 - an average of eight words per line.

And the last thing: we consider how many words fit on the page. To do this, we multiply the average number of lines by the average number of words per line: 39 ⋅ 8 = 312.

Now is the time to find out your reading speed. We set the timer for 1 minute and read the text, calmly and slowly, as you usually do.

How much did it turn out? I have a little more than a page - 328 words.

Step two: landmark and speed

As I wrote above, returning through the text and stopping the look takes a lot of time. But you can easily cut them down with a focus tracking tool.

A pen, pencil or even your finger will serve as such a tool. After all, when counting words and lines, you probably used a pencil or a finger that helped you not to lose count? We will use it for training.

1. Technique (2 minutes)

Practice using a pen or pencil to maintain focus. Move the pencil smoothly under the line you are currently reading and concentrate on where the tip of the pencil is now.

Set the pace with the tip of the pencil and follow it with your eyes, keeping up with stops and returns through the text. And don't worry about understanding the text, it's an exercise in speed, not comprehension.

Try to go through each line in 1 second and increase the speed with each page.

Do not linger on one line for more than 1 second under any circumstances, even if you do not understand at all what the text is about.

With this technique, I was able to read 936 words in 2 minutes, which means 460 words per minute. Interestingly, when you follow with a pen or pencil, it seems that your vision is ahead of the pencil, and you read faster. And when you try to remove it, immediately your vision seems to spread out over the page, as if the focus was released and it began to float all over the page.

2. Speed ​​(3 minutes)

Repeat the tracker technique, but allow no more than half a second to read each line (read two lines of text in the time it takes to say "twenty-two").

Most likely, you will not understand anything at all from what you read, but this is not important. Now you are training your perceptual reflexes, and these exercises help you adapt to the system. Do not slow down for 3 minutes. Concentrate on the tip of your pen and the technique for increasing speed.

In 3 minutes of such a frenzied race, I read five pages and 14 lines, averaging 586 words per minute. The hardest part of this exercise is not to slow down the speed of the pencil. It's a real block: you've been reading all your life to understand what you're reading, and it's not easy to let go of that.

Thoughts cling to the lines in an effort to return to understand what it is about, and the pencil also begins to slow down. It is also difficult to maintain concentration on such useless reading, the brain gives up, and thoughts fly away to hell, which is also reflected in the speed of the pencil.

Step three: expand the scope of perception

When you focus your eyes on the center of the monitor, you still see its extreme areas. So it is with the text: you concentrate on one word, and you see several words surrounding it.

So, the more words you learn to see in this way with the help of peripheral vision, the faster you can read. The expanded area of ​​perception allows you to increase the speed of reading by 300%.

Beginners with a normal reading speed spend their peripheral vision on the fields, that is, they run their eyes through the letters of absolutely all the words of the text, from the first to the last. At the same time, peripheral vision is spent on empty fields, and the reader loses from 25 to 50% of the time.

A pumped reader will not "read the fields". He will run his eyes over only a few words from the sentence, and see the rest with peripheral vision. In the illustration below, you see an approximate picture of the concentration of vision of an experienced reader: words in the center are read, and foggy ones are marked by peripheral vision.

Here is an example. Read this sentence:

Once, students enjoyed reading for four hours straight.

1. Technique (1 minute)

Use a pencil to read as fast as possible, start reading from the first word of the line and end with the last word on the line. That is, there is no expansion of the area of ​​​​perception yet - just repeat exercise No. 1, but spend no more than 1 second on each line. Under no circumstances should one line take more than 1 second.

2. Technique (1 minute)

Continue to set the pace of reading with a pen or pencil, but start reading from the second word on the line and finish reading the line two words before the end.

3. Speed ​​(3 minutes)

Start reading at the third word of the line and finish three words before the end, while moving your pencil at the speed of one line per half second (two lines in the time it takes to say "twenty-two").

If you don't understand a single line of what you read, that's fine. Now you are training your reflexes of perception, and you should not worry about understanding. Concentrate on the exercise with all your might and don't let your mind drift away from an uninteresting activity.

Step Four: Test Your New Speed

Now it's time to test your new reading speed. Set a timer for 1 minute and read as fast as you can while still understanding the text. I got 720 words per minute - twice as fast as before I started using this technique.

These are great indicators, but they are not surprising, because you yourself begin to notice how the scope of words has expanded. You don’t waste time on fields, you don’t go back through the text, and the speed increases significantly.

If you tried this technique right now, share your success in the comments. How many words per minute did you get before and after?

Many people want to increase their reading speed so that they can truly enjoy reading books. The ability to remember what you read is also important; this feature helps to improve memory. Experienced experts recommend using practical recommendations. They are aimed at improving memory and general perception of information. Consider the important aspects in order, highlight the main ones.

Create conditions for the perception of information

1. To improve reading speed, create comfortable conditions. It is enough to allocate a cozy place, a soft sofa or armchair, moderately bright light. Reading should not be carried out in noise, otherwise you will have to run your eyes over the material several times.
2. In the absence of optimal conditions, attention is scattered, you will not be able to remember what you read. For this reason, you do not need to take a book on public transport or do it with the TV on.
3. Go to read in a separate room, in which there are no other household members. If possible, study books in nature to the chirping of birds and a light breeze. It is important to completely immerse yourself in reading so that nothing distracts you.
4. The most ideal time is considered early morning (from 07.00 to 11.00). After waking up, the head works quite well, most importantly, do not forget to have breakfast. If it is not possible to read in the morning, carry out the procedure in the afternoon.
5. Many people prefer to go to bed with a book in the evenings. However, at this time, information is absorbed the worst. Also, you can not read after eating, be sure to wait 30-45 minutes. Otherwise, the body is engaged in the digestion of food, as a result of which it “has no time” to assimilate information.

Highlight the main

1. To increase concentration and better remember information, study the material and highlight the main thing from it. In this way, you will remember what you read without much effort, since the essence will be clear.
2. Let's take a simple example to help solve the problem. Suggestion: "My parents and I went on vacation abroad to enjoy the azure sea." The meaning will be clear from the following keywords: "we-vacation-sea". It is not necessary to read everything, skip the extra.
3. In this way, you will reduce the time for processing information without losing the semantic load. It is advisable to use this technique when reading small texts, such as magazines, newspapers, posts on social networks.

Eliminate Regression

1. Regression refers to reading the same sentence/phrase many times in a row. It doesn't really matter if you do it on purpose or not. Such actions significantly increase the duration of reading, but do not add understanding of what is happening.
2. Regression appears when the meaning of the text is lost. It turns out that a person returns to the beginning of a sentence or, even worse, a paragraph to find. You can avoid such situations with a pencil, bookmark or finger. Mark the place where you stopped earlier.
3. Other people start to regress when they don't get the point the first time. You can get rid of this feature, but you have to be careful. When you sit down to read, concentrate, only then start working with the text.
4. It is a mistake to assume that reading is a passive action. During the processing of information, the brain is involved quite strongly, so the action requires composure. As a result, you will completely eliminate regression, thereby speeding up the speed of text processing and improving the perception of information.
5. It is also worth determining how important the information you are rereading is. If you get the gist without rereading it, don't go back to the paragraph again and again. In this way, you will only waste time.

Don't read the words

1. The speed will slow down a lot if you read one word at a time. Replace the wrong technique with processing information with sentences or chunks (phrases).
2. To give an example, the situation would look like this: “car in the garage” or “car + in + garage”. Less trained readers will act on the second principle, which will not be considered correct.
3. The brain has a nice feature of filling in the gaps it finds in a certain segment of a sentence. You can read "car in the garage" as "car", "garage", the preposition will be substituted automatically at a subconscious level.
4. In this way, we again return to the selection of keys from a whole sentence or phrase. You will reduce the amount of processed information by 45-50%, which will significantly increase the speed of reading.

Don't speak with your lips

1. Many people make the mistake of scrolling through the words in their head while reading or pronouncing them with their lips. This feature is called subvocalization. This is what affects reading speed.
2. Of course, children are taught to receive and perceive information in this way, but speed is not important to them. In your case, subvocalization makes it difficult to perceive information faster, because you are not talking at lightning speed. In the mind, this can be done much faster.
3. If you get rid of pronouncing words with your lips, the speed will increase by 2-3 times, which is an indisputable plus. To exclude subvocalization, it is enough to occupy your mouth with a toothpick or candy for the period of reading. From now on, you need to read what is called consciousness, without mumbling.

Skip what you already know

1. To increase the read and better master the information, you need to skip unnecessary sections. These include information that does not carry a semantic load. It is easy enough to determine which subsections are worth your attention.
2. To perform manipulations, scan the text with your eyes, highlighting key words (or their absence). You can also read the first sentence of all paragraphs, understanding the essence. Such a move will help you understand the content and decide whether the text is worth your time or not.
3. The technique is especially relevant in cases where you need to understand a particular chapter or passage from a book (if you cannot find the information you need). This applies to memoirs, reference books, etc. Human nature may be very opposed, but this way you will better understand the essence and increase the speed of reading.
4. In addition, if the book is not to your liking or is not useful, do not read it at all. For the most part, many works are not written well enough, they do not reflect the concept. Read 7% of each edition, and then choose the most suitable for yourself.

Study before reading

1. To increase your reading speed, study the material before it is processed on a large scale. To do this, run your eyes over the first and last sentence of each paragraph. Pay attention to words in bold or italics.
2. Such actions will help to understand if it makes sense to read the chapter in full or it can be excluded. Don't skip the headings, as a rule, they characterize the essence.
3. As a result of selective reading, you will get a complete picture of all the components of the text. If necessary, you can return to a particular paragraph and study it in more detail.
4. The technique of preliminary study of the material makes it easier to perceive, remember and read a previously unseen book. In this way, you can quickly process a complex article or scientific publication.

Train your memory

1. If you are having difficulty remembering the information you read, develop your memory. An excellent option is to study a foreign language or words separately. You can study at home or enroll in an appropriate school. Also, the skill is useful in everyday life (work, travel, etc.).
2. To train your memory, start reading poems and then memorize them. To improve visual perception, regularly view complex photographs or pictures, try to remember every little thing from the image.
3. Another way to improve memory is the correct placement of words. For example, ask household members to write 12 words in a different order. Read them, put them aside, then try to reproduce the sequence on a separate sheet. Repeat the manipulations 7 times per session 2 times a day. Gradually increase the number of words in the list, try to remember their sequence.
4. Experienced minds of the world unanimously repeat that when reading it is extremely important to develop memory. If we talk about research, experts have found that after reading a book, a person remembers about 18-22% of its contents. The worse the conditions for text processing are created, the more detrimental it affects perception and assimilation.
5. It is known that age is directly related to the ability of the brain to remember information. After graduating from school and college, many people stop developing memory, but such actions are wrong. It is important to always practice, otherwise you will not be able to fix even the smallest complex fragments.
6. The assimilation rate is influenced by the genre of the book and the pleasure with which it is read. If you like the plot and themes, the memorization percentage automatically increases by 1.5-2 times. For this reason, it is important to choose literature that is right for you.

Don't move your eyes

1. If we remember the moment when a small child is taught to read, we can understand the following. Chad is told to look carefully at the word being read before moving on to the next one. In the case of children, this step is partially correct, but it already leads to failure in the future.
2. It is known that the brain captures more information through the eyes due to peripheral vision. As a result, you can cover not one word, but 4-5, it all depends on the complexity of the text. The practice of "stopping" is detrimental to reading speed.
3. To get rid of a bad habit, before working with the text, relax the muscles of the face and eyes. As a result, you will be able to view most of the page. Try to read at least 4-5 words, only then move your eyes further.

It is quite difficult to learn how to read quickly and subsequently memorize the information received. As practice shows, memory captures only 20-30% of all the material studied. Highlight the main thing, exclude regression, do not pronounce the text with your lips, do not read the words. Skip the chapters you already know. Study the material paragraph by paragraph before proceeding with mass processing. Train your memory through exercises, don't move your eyes.

Video: how to learn to read and remember what you read

“I just sit in my office and read books,” Warren Buffett, one of the most successful and influential businessmen, describes his everyday life in exactly this way and in no other way. He just sits and reads. And he advises everyone to stick to this simple and uncomplicated routine.

Agree, this is a pretty useful habit. But not everyone knows how to instill this habit and not just read books, but extract everything useful and valuable from them. If you manage to read several books a month and are content with short-term insights, but do not apply anything you read, consider that you are just wasting your time.

How to read more and have time to comprehend everything read, remember and apply in life - this is the subject of dispute for many researchers. Each of them considers it his duty to offer his own unique methodology that will help you become more perfect in this matter. However, they all agree on one thing - reading books opens up many opportunities for people to grow and achieve success.

We will tell you about the most interesting methods of reading books in this article. But first we want to pay attention to some basics.

How fast are you reading?

One of the most obvious answers to the question “How can I read more?” - Learn to read faster. The topic of speed reading is so popular that some companies (such as Staples, for example) use it in their marketing campaign. By the way, the aforementioned Staples has developed and implemented a technology to promote e-books that allows you to determine your reading speed. Unfortunately, there are no texts for the Russian-speaking audience.

But Staples doesn't just provide website visitors with such a widget: the company collects and analyzes the data it receives. According to these data, 300 words per minute is the average for an adult. You can see other results below:

Average reading speed by group: elementary school students, 8-9 years old (Third-grade students) - 150 words per minute; high school students, 13-14 years old (Eight grade students) - 250 lines; students of colleges and universities - 450 cl; top managers — 575 words; university professor - 675 words; master of speed reading - 1500 sl.

However, will speed reading help you read more? Is this the right way and is it justified? Not always. In the process of reading books, the most important thing is reading comprehension. It's no secret that people who deftly manage one and a half thousand words a minute, in fact, remember little from the text, practically comprehending nothing. Therefore, if your reading speed is at an average level, do not be sad. Gradually build up speed, but without sacrificing understanding. Only in this case you will be able to find the right way to have time to read more.

How much do you read?

Some people read fast and some people read a lot. You will be surprised, but not all people try to save time on their favorite pastime. In this case, speed reading is not an option at all. In fact, in this situation, the question “How to read a lot?” disappears by itself: if a person likes to read, he will devote a lot of time to this.

According to a study by The Pew Research Center, adults in the United States read an average of 17 books a year. How many books do you usually read in a year?

The key word here is "average". There are people who read much more than 17 books a year. There are also those who do not read them at all (of those, 19%, and according to the latest data for 2013, 28% of Americans). What does it mean? This means that if you start reading more, you will be head and shoulders above one-third of the US population.

5 techniques that will allow you to read more books, blogs, articles

1. Speed ​​Reading: The Amazing Technique of Tim Ferriss.

His method consists of 2 steps:

1. Run your pen or pencil along each line you read, as children do when they learn to read.
2. Start reading each new line at least from the third word, and try to catch the first two words with peripheral vision. Move to the next line at least three words before the end of the line itself.

Ferriss calls this technique perceptual extension:

“Untrained readers spend up to half of their peripheral vision reading… fields. If you read lines from beginning to end, you will waste about 25-50% of your time.”

How do our eyes see?

You may have already heard that in order to improve your reading speed, you need to use your peripheral vision. Rapid eye movements, the so-called saccades (fast, strictly coordinated eye movements that occur simultaneously and in the same direction), occur constantly while we are reading (from the field to the beginning of a new line, for example). Minimizing these jumps is a sure way to increase your reading speed.

Conclusion: Using your peripheral vision will help you improve your reading speed. You will not achieve record changes in speed, but you will definitely start reading faster.

2. New methods Spritz and Blinkist

Spritz and Blinkist are two completely new, unique techniques that will help you read not only faster, but also less.

As mentioned above, while reading, a lot of time is spent on moving the eyes. Spritz technology completely eliminates this.

How it works? You just look at a small rectangle on the screen of your laptop or smartphone, which alternately, one after another, displays words from the text. In each word, one letter is highlighted in red: this makes it easier for the eyes to concentrate on the center of the word.

There is a special bookmarklet called OpenSpritz that allows you to read any text you find on the Internet in this way. Below is an example of one of these texts, which is read at a speed of 600 words per minute.

On the main page of the Spzirtz application, you can try this technology at different speeds and in different languages ​​(including Russian).

In addition to the revolutionary, in our opinion, Spritz technology, there is another one called Blankist. Instead of helping you read faster, Blankist suggests reading only the most important. The program splits texts into digestible parts. Each of which contains a key idea that you can read in just a couple of minutes.

3. Don't watch TV or go shopping

Shane says there are no secrets to this success. The time he spends reading, the average American spends watching TV (35 hours a week), doing some kind of interactive entertainment, and shopping (at least an hour a week). Shane eliminated all these unnecessary activities from his life and devoted the saved time to reading. In total, he reads 43 more hours a week than the average American.

4. Buy a reader

According to a study by The Pew Research Center, those people who use e-books, on average, read about 24 books per year, while people without this device manage only 15. The question is: do you want to read 9 more books a year, than usual? If yes, then buy a reader. It is light and comfortable, and you can devote any free minute to reading. Needless to say, in this scenario, you will read much more?

5. Read more, but don't read everything.

For some, this advice may seem completely illogical, but it is taken from an equally illogical book.

How to talk about books you haven't read?

This book was written by Pierre Bayard, a professor at the University of Paris. In it, he says that people usually divide all books into those that they have read and those that they have not read:

• the books we have read;
• books we reviewed;
• books we heard about;
• books we forgot about;
• books that have never been opened.

Who knows: maybe in order to be able to read more, you just need to look at the process of reading a little differently. Obviously, those books that fall into the first 3 categories, the professor refers to read. Will it help you? Try it. But to be honest, we have some doubts.

3 effective ways to remember what you read

To learn how to better absorb what you read and retain information for many years, you need to understand the specifics of how our memory works. To do this, remember 3 keywords:

• impression;
• associations;
• repetition.

Let's say you read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. You liked the book incredibly, and you want to remember as much as possible.

What should be done? Work on three levels.

Impression. You will remember much more if you emotionally work through the book. For example, you can play some chapters in your imagination, try to feel the emotions that the author is trying to convey or that he is talking about. Imagine yourself as the main character of the chapters you read. You must create and manage your experiences. Thanks to them, you will be able to save most of the information in your memory. If visuals don't help, try reading your favorite chapters aloud. Make sure that the book evokes a rush of feelings in you.

Associations. The association method is known to many, but it cannot be left out of our list, since it is distinguished by record efficiency. Its essence is simple: you connect the meaning of what you read with something that is already familiar to you, correlate with each other. In addition to the fact that this method will allow you to remember texts better and more clearly, you will also understand them better. The rule works: it is easier to explain something new if you compare it with something familiar.

Repetition. Repetition is the mother of learning. And that's it. The more often you return to the books you liked most, the better you will keep them in your memory.

4 reading levels

Mortimer Adler, philosopher and author of How to Read a Book, identifies 4 levels of reading:

1. Elementary.
2. Inspection.
3. Analytical.
4. Thematic.

Each level builds on the previous one. The elementary level is taught to you at school. The inspection level is, in fact, a superficial acquaintance with a book or article, the same as “going over the eyes”.

The most painstaking work takes place on the last two levels. The analytical level involves a more thorough acquaintance with the material. You literally read the book from cover to cover. In the course of analytical reading, you will have to go through 4 stages:

1. Classify the book by subject.
2. Briefly state what the book is about.
3. List the main chapters and make connections between them. Describe each of these parts. Expand her role throughout the book.
4. Identify the problem or problems the author is addressing in the book. Describe them.

Finally, topical reading obliges you to read several books on one topic and analyze each of them in relation to the other: compare, contrast, evaluate.

As you master these 4 levels of reading, you will also develop the 3 ways of memorization discussed above. By breaking the book apart (at the analytical and thematic levels), you will fix in your memory the impressions that you received from it. A thoughtful analysis of works similar in subject matter will help you better understand the material and remember it for many years.

Take notes!

Here's a little tip for you: take notes.

Write in the margins. Leave bookmarks. After reading the book, write a short review. Then you can go back to your notes and notes and brush up on the most important points from what you read.

The importance of notes and bookmarks is emphasized by Shane Parrish, already mentioned by us:

“After I finish a book, I put it aside for a few weeks. Then I go back to it, go through all the bookmarks and notes I've made, and reread the chapters I've marked as important. I do this with all books without exception.

Conclusion

Remember the main rule: books cannot be read, books must be studied. Books should be seen as an investment in one's own education, and therefore in one's own success. The craze for techniques that allow us to increase the speed of reading, which we can observe today, at first glance, seems to be saving, but there will be no sense from them if what is read is not comprehended and used. Learn to read correctly, and you will definitely achieve excellent results.

Good luck and high conversions!

To quickly and efficiently assimilate new material, to navigate the ocean of new information is the main necessity in the modern world of high speeds and frantic rhythms. But how do you learn to read fast?

There are many techniques and technologies for teaching speed reading. Where to start? First of all, you should find out your current reading speed. How to make such a freeze? You need to choose the right book for the job:

1. It should contain several pages of full, uninterrupted text;
2. These pages should not contain drawings, photographs or tables;
3. These pages should not contain any technical terms;
4. Newspaper or magazine does not fit.

It is convenient to use a timer for training to measure the desired length of time.

So the book is found! Let's do the first test. Read for one minute at your normal pace when full understanding is achieved. Exactly one minute later, stop and count the number of words you read. This will be your reading speed. Remember her!

• The first acquaintance with the subject in question will be helped by "sliding", i.e. paying attention no more than 1-2 seconds to one page. We just glance at the key phrases so that the brain catches the theme and the author's style.
• It is not necessary to see the sentence verbatim, the brain itself will complete the linking words. But the negation words - "not" and "no" - should certainly be caught, they can change the meaning of the whole sentence.
• You should concentrate on the topic of the material, otherwise the speed will decrease due to the constant loss of the narrative thread.
• To set the reading pace, use your left hand, moving it from left to right along the line, then back to the beginning of the next line until you reach the end of the page.

How to learn to read fast. Tutorial

When learning speed reading, it is important to determine its purpose. If you just want to spend your leisure time, you should turn off the high speed and relax, but if your task is new knowledge, then this tutorial will effectively help you read books on self-development, you can learn incomparably faster than before.

• Usually in educational literature it will be optimal to read with full understanding the first 2 pages of each chapter, where the main concept is proposed, and the final lines-conclusions at the end, and illustrating examples in the middle of the chapter can be read at your highest speeds.
• In magazines, it is convenient to treat each column as a separate page of text and focus on the column using the pacing technique.

Now let's do an exercise to change the reading speed threshold. Deep breathing, beautiful posture, smile! Start reading at your usual speed, double it in a minute, for which you should move your hand over the text twice as fast, or cover 2 lines of text with your eyes at once. At the 3rd minute, triple your speed! Read 3 lines at a time! Understanding at this point is not important, we just let our eyes skim through the lines to see the words as quickly as they can. At the 4th minute, return to normal speed, with full understanding of what you are reading. Repeat the entire workout 4 times in a row. Thus, the exercise will take 16 minutes. Now check yourself and read the test text again, but at the highest speed at which you understand what you read. After a minute, count the number of words read this time. Your speed has noticeably increased!

How to learn to read aloud quickly

Plus you got a bonus! During the lesson, you developed a new quality: the ability to simultaneously cover a large area of ​​text with your eyesight, which means that you automatically began to read quickly and aloud due to the accumulation in your mind of words that have not yet been spoken, but have already been transmitted to the brain with your eyes.

By regularly repeating the exercise given in our article, you will develop the skill of speed reading, this skill will remain with you forever.

Despite the fact that the number of people reading fiction in the world has decreased, reading is still popular, and often necessary. This is especially true for students and schoolchildren, who, in addition to reading, also need to be able to remember what they have read. How to make what you read easy and quick to remember? Is it possible to facilitate the memorization process? Let's figure it out.

In order to make what you read easy to remember, create certain external conditions - this is a calm atmosphere and silence. When reading takes place in a noisy environment, attention is scattered and, as a result, what is read in the head is not postponed. Agree that when reading, for example, in the subway, it is difficult to remember something. Sometimes you don't even realize what you're reading.

So, close yourself in a separate room, create silence, and start reading. If possible, find a secluded corner in nature, it helps to relax and focus. You need to learn to fully immerse yourself in the book. Nothing should be distracting!

Reading in the morning is optimal. After sleep, the head is clean and free, it easily perceives information that is quickly absorbed. Therefore, read in the morning, preferably even before breakfast. If reading in the morning is not available to you, read in the afternoon.

The worst time to memorize information is evening. At this time, the body is already tired, and the information is not absorbed. It is not advisable to read information that requires memorization after lunch or dinner, because at this time the body is busy digesting food and, as they say, it is not up to memorization.

Improve your reading speed

To understand how to better remember what you read, you need to understand that visual memory plays a huge role in this process.

When reading, try to cover the entire page with your eyes, as if reading from top to bottom. This helps to train visual memory, thanks to which the read is easier to remember. Visual memory is very important. In a situation where you can’t remember something in any way, it’s often enough just to imagine a page in a book where this information was, as visual memory immediately tells you what was written there.

Reading speed is also important. The faster a person reads, the better the information is absorbed. The ability to read well from top to bottom significantly speeds up the reading process.

To develop this skill, you can be like speed reading courses. These courses teach you to read diagonally. With this method of reading, a person covers the entire page with his eyes. As a result, he can learn and remember information quickly and clearly.

In the process of reading a chapter, do not go back to what you read, either visually or in order to reread it. This interferes with the holistic perception of information. It is better to read the chapter to the end to re-read it in its entirety again.

It is not necessary to say what you have read to yourself while reading. It is also not advisable to read the text by pronouncing it with your lips. All this interferes with the perception and assimilation of information.

Outline, fantasize, tell

Try to visualize the situation you are reading. This will help you remember the text. Compare this situation with something already familiar to you, create associations. Then, by association, it will be easy to remember what you have read.

If you read textbooks, take notes. Write out the main points, make diagrams, lists. All this makes it easier to remember.

Discuss what you read with friends and parents. Try to form your own opinion. You need to learn to reason, to consider the situation from different angles. If you have no one to discuss what you read with, just write a summary, but just write it, because writing leads to additional memorization, including visual one.

If you forgot something, do not try to immediately open the book and look for it. Try to quickly remember on your own, without peeping. If you can, you will never forget this moment. Strain and train your memory!

Train your memory

If you have a serious memory problem, develop your memory. The best way to develop memory is to study foreign languages. Choose a language that interests you and learn it. You can do it yourself or enroll in courses. In any case, knowledge of a foreign language is not superfluous, but it will help develop memory.

To develop memory, memorize verses, and to develop visual memory, train with memorizing the image. For example, look at a picture of animals or objects for 30 seconds, close it and quickly list the animals or objects that you remember.

A great way to train your memory is to memorize a sequence of words. Ask a family member to write you a list of 10 words. Read it 2 times and try to reproduce without changing the sequence of words. Practice until you remember all the words. Make new lists, gradually increasing the number of words in them. Such training will help you remember everything the first time.

Remembering the information you read is important. According to scientists, when reading a book, a person remembers only 20% of the information read in a day. The worse the environment in which reading takes place, the worse the information received is assimilated.

The older we get, the worse our memory works. Therefore, you can not let her rest. Memory needs to be constantly trained. Then at any age you can remember what you read easily and quickly.

And one more important factor. If you read with pleasure, then the percentage of memorization is higher!