Speed Reading

What is Speed Reading?

Speed Reading is the ability to take in larger word groups by increasing your eye span and brain capacity, and decreasing reading barriers, such as limited vocabulary.

What is Speed Reading Exercises?

Speed Reading Exercises are special exercises to train your eyes to move more regularly, to see larger areas, etc. There are many of these exercises on the market, and they vary in quality, quantity and cost. Our exercises give you basic eye training and are free.

Two purposes of the program

1. From using irregular eye movements to using regular and rapid eye movements when reading


To ordered and fast eye movements


2. From taking in a small area of print to a larger area (use peripheral vision instead of tunnel vision) when reading.


How to use the exercises?

Firstly find out the speed and eye width area that you feel comfortable with to read the points, words or text flashed on screen. With regular daily training, you can gradually increase these values (decrease speed – ms value). After a while you will notice improvement in your scanning of words across a larger area. Practising a couple of minutes every day is better than practising very intensively for a longer period and than giving up.

What to do else?

You must also work on decreasing any reading barriers such as rereading words, and subvocalisation or reading aloud. There are further exercises available in books on speed reading. These exercises are often not available on-line, and some of these you cannot practise on the computer. Learn from books or experts on speed reading and practise daily. Since this site does not cover all the facts and details on speed reading, read the below mentioned books and/or take a Speed Reading course.

Books

You can learn about speed reading by below books.

Exercises and screenshots

Exercise POINT

Exercise WORDS

Exercise PYRAMID;

Exercise BLOCK;

Exercise TEXT;

Configuration

Exercise: Select the exercise that you want to use as practice: e.g. points or words.
Type: Every exercise has different options for flashing a block of text: e.g. horizontally, vertically or in corners.
Dictionary: You have a choice of words sourced from different dictionaries.
Speed: There are various speeds-for each selected exercise. Start with a value that suits your ability to scan the words, and decrease the word frequency (ms) after one or two training sessions.
Duration: You can set the duration of training in minutes. You can exit an exercise any time by clickin ESC key.
Eye Area-Width: The number of characters the eye can read in one glance.
Eye Area-Height: The number of lines the eye can read in one glance.
Font, Font Size: Configuration of the different fonts and font sizes.
Outer area transparency: To focus on an eye area, the transparency of an outer area can be configured.
Yellow Point: To focus on an eye area, a yellow point is displayed in the middle of the screen. The eyes must be able to see the whole area by looking at this point. The eyes must not move outside this area.

Eye Health

Please take care about your eye health...

  • practise exercises at an easy, comfortable level
  • do not practise in the extreme
  • practise regularly and at intervals; only by doing so will the next levels become effortless
  • do not concentrate on the screen too closely
  • rest your eyes when they get tired
  • check your eyes frequently with your doctor or optician