How to increase reading speed

You can increase reading speed with five simple methods. At the same time, it is important to take the correct position - direct posture, the left hand slightly props up the book. In addition, there are a number of additional recommendations that will help increase the speed and perception of what you read.

It is believed that people began to read less books. If previously all adults read books, now there is a transition to audio books and watching movies. This is a sad fact, since reading fiction develops imaginative thinking, helps a person more fully understand the world around him.

Reading speed directly affects the number of books read. The reading base is laid in us in the school years, but even in retirement age you can increase the number of words read per minute, if you really want to.

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In order to master the technique of quick reading, you need to take the correct position of the body - direct posture, the book is slightly held by the left hand, and the right hand is used for exercise.

It is important to know that even if you start to read quickly, while not perceiving what you read, there will be no sense in it. Then you have to work with the speed of perception, or abandon attempts to increase the speed of reading.

Before you start working with the text, you need to familiarize yourself with it in order to understand what the main idea consists in, in what style the work is written, who the author is.

At the moment, there are five main methods that can help increase the speed of reading with independent use.

These methods seem to be called: "Hand", "Card", "Sweeping", "Jump", "Zigzag".

In the first case, the right hand constantly moves down the text. However, the eyes do not follow her, but continue to read. Unconsciously, reading will be faster, as the eyes will tend to follow a hand that is constantly moving down.

In the second case, a card is used that closes the text that is at the top. You move it down to the line you are reading. This will make it faster to read to the end.

The sweeping method. Use three fingers to move along the line and periodically make a movement, as if sweeping salt. Eyes will move faster behind the fingers, increasing the speed of reading.

When "Jump" everything is done the same way as when sweeping, only on each line two hits are made by three connected

fingers of the right hand - at the beginning and end.

"Zigzag". This method is suitable for materials that do not require thorough study. Three lines are taken, which are circled by hand and some words are read out, so that you can understand the meaning of the transmitted. Experts do not recommend resorting to this method if "Sweeping" and "Jump" are not mastered.