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📖Speed reading
Read faster with honest gains and protect your comprehension
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Unit 1
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Course overview
What speed reading promises, and what it can deliver
The honest ceiling
How your eyes actually move
Fixations and saccades
The perceptual span: how much you see at once
The window you read through
Measure your baseline speed
Words per minute
Unit 2
Measure your comprehension, not just speed
Speed means nothing alone
Subvocalization: the voice in your head
Inner speech
What to do about subvocalization instead
Speed up the voice, don't kill it
Regression: the backward jumps
Re-reading mid-sentence
Using a pacer: the hand method
A guide for your eyes
Unit 3
Expanding your fixation span and chunking
Reading in groups of words
Fewer fixations per line
Cutting the stops
Reading versus skimming versus scanning
Three different jobs
When to go fast and when to slow down
Match speed to the material
Previewing before you read
Build a map first
Unit 4
SQ3R: a method that keeps comprehension high
Survey, question, read, recite, review
The biggest real lever: vocabulary and background knowledge
Why experts read their field fast
The truth about RSVP apps
One word at a time, and its hidden cost
Retention: reading it is not remembering it
Getting it to stick
Common mistakes and false claims
What to ignore
Unit 5
A realistic practice plan
Four weeks, honest goals
Where to go next
Where to go next