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How to Speed Read

How to Speed Read.

Improve your efficiency by learning how to read up to three times faster with these proven speed-reading techniques. You will need discipline and practice.

Step 1. Skim an entire article, chapter, or even book before you begin reading.

Take in the title, introduction, any subheadings, and bold-type passages, so that when you start reading, you'll already know the selection's main points.

Step 2. Lead with your index finger, a pen, or your computer mouse, which keeps your eyes focused and moving ahead.

This prevents them from darting around re-reading words, something that average person does to the tune of 20 words per page.

Move your pointer at a faster rate than you think you can read, which will retrain your brain by forcing you to keep up.

Step 3. Stop " sounding out" each word in your head, or mouthing the words silently, two things many of us learned to do in grade school.

U. S. Air Force research shows your brain can recognize a word in less than five-hundredths of a second, while it takes a quarter of a secondfive times longerto say it in your head.

Step 4. Learning not to sound out words will help you " chunk" —a technique that requires you to group together four or five words by skipping articles like " the" and " and."

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