But just because speed-reading is too good to be true doesn’t mean we can’t be more efficient readers. Depending on the type of material you’re moving through, these tips and tricks can help ...

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But claims that people can triple their reading speed or more (e.g., reading more than 15,000 words per minute, which is equivalent to reading a college-level textbook in less than 6 minutes) are ...

This is actually the second coming of speed reading. In the 1950s, a schoolteacher named Evelyn Nielsen Wood discovered that she could read at a much faster pace than the normal 250-300 words per ...

But speed-reading has become a hot topic. Several websites assure viewers that they hold the key to mastering an exhaustive 50-page report in seconds, or cutting your homework time by half.

As cognitive neuroscientist Mark ­Seidenberg wittily explains in “Language at the Speed of Sight,” those assumptions may seem plausible, but the science of reading has shown to be false.

Speed-reading programs focus on modifying readers’ behavior in three ways. Remarkably, all of them were laid out in an obscure 1958 book, Reading Skills, by Evelyn Wood and Marjorie Barrows.

You tend to read faster by reading more. One of the biggest influences on your pace is what psycho­linguists call the word-frequency effect; the more times you’ve encountered a word, the faster ...

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