Tips for Increasing Speed Reading Rate
Increasing your speed reading rate is a vitally important goal. Here are more suggestions you can implement immediately.
- Work on vocabulary improvement. Familiarize yourself with new words so you don't get stuck on them when you read them again.
- If you find yourself moving your lips when reading, force yourself to read faster by reading with the mind instead of with the lips.
- Read more! 15 minutes a day of reading an average size novel equals 18 books a year at an average reading speed. Can you imagine how helpful it can be?
- Determine your purpose before reading. If you only need main ideas, then allow yourself to skim the material. Don't read every word.
- Spend a few minutes a day reading at a faster than comfortable rate (about 2 to 3 times faster than your normal speed). Use your hand or a card to guide your eyes down the page.
- If you have poor concentration when reading, practice reading for only 5-10 minutes at a time and gradually increase this time.
It is vitally important that you consistently apply the techniques provided in this course. No matter what you are reading, make a conscious effort to use what you have learned in this speed reading program.
The idea here is through repetition to ingrain these techniques so throroughly that they become habitual. Speed reading is a skill that you want to come as naturally as breathing. This can and will come through persistent repetition on your part.
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