Back in school years, primary school students read texts at speed. What is it for? To test the child’s reading technique , which characterizes the pace of development of the student. It checks not only the number of words read per minute, but also the awareness of the material read. However, all speed reading training ends at the junior high school level. Adults themselves decide whether they need to have such skills or not.
The average reading speed of an ordinary adult is 120-180 words per minute. Reading books and other literature at this pace is characterized by a complete understanding of the text read. Reading speed 3-4 times higher than average is called speed reading. There are a number of techniques that help to increase the pace of human reading at times while maintaining the process and perceiving the required amount of information.
What gives possession of the technique of fast reading?
Currently, information plays a fundamental role in human life. More informed people are more successful in their lives. Reading the text at an average pace does not give the desired result. Therefore, many people want to increase the speed of reading, using various technologies. The main thing, having the fast reading technique, is to preserve the level of perception of information when reading texts of various subjects. The ability to read quickly helps both in study and in work, allowing you to study the necessary material in a shorter time.
Reading speed not only makes it possible to perceive a larger amount of information in a short time, but also characterizes the active pace of life of a modern person. The technique of fast reading was possessed by many great people of our country and famous people of the world. It is worth considering that speed reading was one of the reasons for their success and worldwide recognition. It makes the nerve endings perceive information much faster, due to this, the person becomes more erudite, the level of intelligence rises. And all the learned information helps to advance professionally and achieve new goals.
How to learn to read faster on your own?
Reading speed can be increased independently. To do this, you must adhere to the following rules while reading the literature.
- It is necessary to direct all your attention only to reading, to minimize all distractions. You need to read in complete silence, under normal lighting and in a calm internal state.
- First you need to familiarize yourself with the table of contents in order to understand what the book will be about, what it is important to pay attention to, and what can be missed. You can quickly review the text before proceeding to a focused attentive reading.
- You need to read to yourself without repeating aloud individual phrases or parts of the text.
- It is better to read whole phrases, rather than stand-alone words of the text, using the features of your vision.
- It is important to avoid re-reading and going back. You need to learn to perceive the material the first time.
- The reading speed becomes higher if you use a special pointer, for example, a ruler, pencil, finger and so on.
- You need to read often and a lot, then over time speed reading will become a constant companion and will open up new possibilities for the assimilation of information.