With all the tools and knowledge out there, discipline to practice every day is what makes the 1% of adults and children successful in speed-reading. what to do (knowledge & best practices).So, I’ve decided to create my tool - a straightforward one - that would allow me to experiment with the kids and try some speed-reading practice. I tried a few tools in the last few months but wasn’t satisfied with any of them.Īshly McGee mentioned in my interview she taught her two daughters to speed-read by showing them PowerPoint slides with a word on each slide. I wanted to use books my kids are most passionate about and have memorized the text already. The reading material is just way too dull.
I like the apps above and use them myself, but they are not suitable for kids. Outread (iOS app) helps me to read articles saved in Pocket enhanced by a highlighter which highlights small chunks of text at a time. Although not updated for three years, it’s still a perfect product. AcelereadĪcceleread is an iOS app that offers a personalized course to learn to speed read. Schultz Tables (iOS app) help me widen this vision. The broader field of vision we have, the faster you can read. Everything that lies outside this central area is seen as foggy. Our eyes have their most precise vision in the central zone of view. Although EyeQ doesn’t work on iPhone or iPad, the desktop exercises are of a high quality. EyeQĮyeQ is a product recommended by Ashly in my post Speed-reading Is Not Only For Adults (+video). My goal is 800 wpm, so still lots of practice ahead.ĭisclosure: I don’t receive any reward for promoting these training tools. The following tools helped me to get from 300 to 500 wpm (words per minute). Daily practice - the importance of discipline cannot be overstated.Relax - relax while concentrating and visualizing to get maximum comprehension.
FAST BYWORD FOR KIDS MOVIE
Visualization - picture the story in your mind so well it feels like watching a movie. Natural vision - recognize more than one word at once. George Stancliffe wrote in his 18-year-old article Teach speed reading to your children even if you can’t speed read yourself there are four primary keys to learning to speed-read: Photo by Prasanna Kumar on Unsplash Four keys to speed-reading By the time you finish struggling through the process yourself, you will be so weary that you’ll doubt that children are capable of learning it at all. It’s at least ten times harder for an adult to learn speed reading than it is for a child. George Stancliffe teaches children to speed-read for 20 years: And that’s most likely the reason why so few can do it. It’s very straightforward, well researched, and documented. In fact, speed-reading is relatively easy to learn, to some level. Why do more people not learn to speed-read? Easy to learn That’s how some of the kids read even two-three books a day.Īnd all that with the same or even better comprehension. If you or your child can read 800 wpm, it will take only 1.00 hour to read a book. If you can read 500 wpm, it will take you 1.67 hours to read. If you can read 200 wpm (words per minute), it will take you 50,000 / 200 / 60 = 4.17 hours to read it. The top readers reach above 1,000 wpm with near 85% comprehension.Ī 200-page book usually has around 50,000 words. How can we accelerate learning for our children? ContextĪverage readers read at speeds of around 250 words per minute in a non-technical material with a typical comprehension of 60%. And I keep wondering how my kids’ lives will be different if I manage to teach them speed-reading already now when they are just five years old. Today, at the age of 32, I’m learning to speed-read. When a student at Nebraska State asked Bill Gates and Warren Buffet the superpower question, Gates answered, “Being able to read super fast.” And Buffett echoed him, adding, “I’ve probably wasted ten years reading slowly.” Speed-reading is also a superpower Bill Gates would like to have! And I was thinking: How about I teach that my two little kids, too? Some of the parents I interviewed for my membership site have managed to teach their kids to speed-read at a young age. Imagine you would have read one book per day for the last 20 years.
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