Comments on: How to Speed Read Like Theodore Roosevelt

By: Drayton

Drayton — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:39:05 +0000

there are extensions for Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that will work like speeder. It’s called REASY.

you can set the speed of the words flashed. how many words flashed at a time. etc.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:09:57 +0000

Great article! Really interesting, i’d also highly recommend Tony Buzan’s work on speed reading to anyone wanting to learn more about it and the most effective techniques. :-)

By: Throckmorton Q. Dirktwister

Throckmorton Q. Dirktwister — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:36:34 +0000

Here is a skeptical analysis of speed-reading:

“Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Is this really possible?”

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:23:49 +0000

Just by taking out the subvocalization (i was repeating the words in my mind) increases my lecture speed without losing the understanding of the text.

Awesome!!!

By: N Kinsella

N Kinsella — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:24:12 +0000

I used to be a pretty fast and avid reader, a 1000 page novel each week didn’t phase me at all and there was a time I was getting through three or more books of that size simultaneously every fortnight.
The internet put paid to that, it’s about time I started flicking through real paper again.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:04:21 +0000

Great article! My wife and I will go to the library together and I’ll get one or two books while she leaves with a huge stack. Yet she’ll finish her dozen before I’m done with one. I’ve always blamed it on the fact that I work long hours and go to grad school so the amount of time I have to read is diminished, but the fact is that she can tear through a book! I used the 1-2-3-4 technique reading this post and was AMAZED at how fast I was finished! Now, if I can just get used to doing it without having to say “1-2-3-4″ to myself!

By: Andrew L

Andrew L — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:32:15 +0000

Started the article off reading about a line every couple of seconds and by the time I was at the end of the article I was finishing paragraphs in second. My jaw has literally dropped.

By: Jasi

Jasi — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:57:33 +0000

This article is really awesome. I found it cool how, as I was reading it, my inner voice started to quiet. Neat!

By: JamesT

JamesT — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:06:03 +0000

Cheers for the article brother. First time i’ve commented here, couldn’t help it after realising how much this article has helped me.

Thanks to you guys I’m now back into my old habit of reading pretty much during any spare second I have.

The method I’ve adopted is a blend of peripheral vision and the ‘z’ method. Never realised how quick I could actually read with just a little practise.

So to summarise the entire point of this comment, thank you again for helping me pick up something I love again and have the ability to do it quickly.

By: Jhans

Jhans — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:49:45 +0000

Thank You Very Much!

For Mac Users, a nice app for offline use (instead of spreed.com) is iReadFast. Download at http://www.macupdate.com/download/25920/iReadFast%202.0.dmg