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How to Improve your Reading Speed?

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To become a better reader means getting faster and more efficient at reading, and understanding what you’re reading. Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement period. Have an idea that what you’re reading about, not just reading and forgetting or failing to grasp the contents.

Reading involves a pre-conscious level of awareness that naturally stimulates creativity, rapid information assimilation while opening the doors to non-judgmental learning. While reading, we are essentially shutting-off the conscious critical mind from the learning cycle. Even though the conscious mind is essential for stimulating your short and long-term memory, its due to the habitual preconceived ideas and notions about the information you are learning.

In the modern age of information, reading truly is a fundamental survival skill. Here are tips that anyone can use to improve their reading skills:

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Only Move Eyes while Reading

Using this method you can effectively accelerate your reading speed anywhere from 20% to 30%. Your vision will allow you to see more of the page in one glance without having to move your eyes across the page left to right. the most proficient speed readers actually only move their eyes down the center of a page to capture words and phrases that lie off-center.

Focus

Remember, you’re reading with a purpose, so focus on that purpose and the material. When you start getting bored or need a break, take one. Reading should be fun and enjoyable, don’t force it. After your break, return to where you were, and continue. Be choosy and select the chapters and articles that are important. This simple technique helps you focus and increase your concentration.

Skimming

Skimming is the process of speedy reading for general meaning. Let your eyes skip over sentences or phrases which contain detail. Concentrate on identifying the central or main points. This technique is used to pre-view a section of text prior to detailed reading and refresh your understanding of a section of text following detailed reading. Using this method, you can effectively accelerate your reading speed anywhere from 10% to 20%.

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Reduce Amount of Skip-backs

We naturally slowdown our speed of reading because of simple skip-backs, which involves re-reading words and sentences over and over again. Many of us take part in this time wasting habit, because as children we were told by our teachers that we must go back and re-read words that were mispronounced. Using this method you can effectively accelerate your reading speed anywhere from 25% to 50%.

Don’t Move Lips or Make Noises while Reading

Our eyes can recognize words and sentence structures far more quickly then we can articulate them aloud. Hence, if you are verbalizing the words you are reading inside your head or through the process of just moving your lips, then you are dramatically slowing down your speed of reading. Using this method you can effectively accelerate your reading speed.

Form Mental Visual Mind Maps while Reading

In order to improve your comprehension of the information you are reading, it is important to form ongoing visual mind map images of each sentence, paragraph, topic and chapter throughout the reading process.

You don’t have to be a great reader to get the point.

Some people read fast and remember everything. Others read slowly and take a couple of times to get all the information. It doesn’t matter, really, so long as when you read, you get the information you’re seeking. Don’t need to read everything doing this will double the amount of time you have available to read.

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Know WHY you’re reading.

Decide why you’re reading before you start and you’ll greatly improve your comprehension and your enjoyment.

Optimize your reading environment.

You’ll read faster and comprehend more if you read in an environment that’s comfortable for you.

Practice, Practice and Practice Some More

Finally, you will not improve your reading speed by thinking about these techniques and strategies. The key is to practice, practice and practice each and everyday. Through consistent practice over time you will progressively accelerate your reading speed beyond its present capabilities and limitations. The more you read, the better reader you’ll become (and smarter, too)! So, feed your mind: read!

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38 COMMENTS

  3. The content mentioned is really good. Hope, some images of what you have stated will reinforce the answers
    enabling readers who cannot visualise instantaneously.

  4. The content mentioned is better and enhancing it by clubbing images along with content will reinforce them and helps in visulaising at ease.

  11. This article is really helpful. Just a small doubt regarding reading. Is it better to read loudly or read inside your head?
    Thanks. Please answer this question.

    • Hi Abhinav. While not undermining the technique of reading inside your head, I think that reading out loud is a more useful technique. By reading out loud, you are absorbing information by virtue of two senses of your body, that is, sight and hearing. You can see what you’re reading and you can hear it too. Reading out loud is especially useful for digesting things that you’ll need to remember per se like articles of the Constitution. Also, if you’ve to read and understand a complicated topic which has multidimensional moorings, reading out loud can be really useful and time saving in your study. Better yet, you can recite to yourself what you understood in your own words. But you can’t read out loud everywhere. For instance, in a library or with friends etc. So, read it out loud when you’re confined to yourself and read inside your head if you can’t read out loud.

      Hope this helps! 🙂

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  20. Thanks to the maker of this website..seriously i have got many information from this website and have found much improvement in my learning…THANX A LOT.

  23. Dear Blog writer
    Here is a question
    Inhope the question’s solution would be cleared soon.
    The question is “If I read silently, I can’t understand anything. I lose my thoght while reading silently, don’t get interest too. Practices many times this silent reading, but I am unable to increase reading speed as well as comprehension.
    In this case what I have to do to over come this problem.

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  30. Outstanding concept sir. Pls provide me in Hindi notes on socio economic, sociology, history, geography, ethics, integrity, current affairs, current events, Indian polity, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar ,samrat Ashok, mahatma Gandhi. Swami Vivekananda’s, great king Akbar, and ancient modern scientific etc.

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