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 second — five times longer — to 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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