jtgi
@jtgi
does speed reading *actually* work? I’ve tried it in earnest a handful of times and either my cpu isn’t powerful enough or I’m doing it wrong. seems ripe for psyop with its claim to superhuman benefit and ability to always say “you just need to practice more” etc. but, is it real?
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
i don't know what constitutes speed reading, but when informative content is only available by video i set it to a minimum of 2x speed (open up devtools to manually crank playbackRate to 3 or 4 if needed)
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Ziggy
@various-authors
Some people read faster than others, of this I'm certain. My wife reads so fast it boggles my mind, and I've tested her comprehension because I couldn't believe it. My friend droqen reads extremely fast as well. I've never been able to, my mind wanders. If people read at different speeds it's reasonable to hypothesis that a person could train themselves to read faster. In fact, you _are_ a speed reader compared to when you were in elementary school.
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kevin
@kevinoconnell
I mess up from time to time but taking the max amount of credits I could for half of college got me pretty good at speed reading/watching content
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kevin j
@entropybender
yea if it's for extracting information no if it's for some deeper purpose
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louis albiverse
@albiverse
honestly imo the whole point of reading a book is how deep you go by reading it over a long period of time, thinking about it, letting it infiltrate your daily life currently having the time of my life reading Henri Laborit and seeing what I read in everything i experience that's how you actually learn things
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downshift 🫴🪵🔥
@downshift.eth
for me, i can skim through stuff that i already know or that’s low information density very quickly. but i still need to chew on the new/useful stuff so it’s kind of a “hunt” mode then “digest” mode
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Kunal 👑🎩
@kunalvg
Speed reading is not fun.
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ReⓂ️i🔄🎩🎭
@remchanger
Speed reading techniques, such as meta-guiding, skimming, and chunking, can help you read more efficiently.
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