The average reader moves at 238 words per minute — about the speed they talk. Your eyes can go far faster. This is a workshop for teaching them how.
Slow reading isn't a lack of intelligence — it's a set of childhood habits your eyes never unlearned. Name them and you can train them out.
Sounding out every word in your head. It chains your reading speed to your speaking speed — roughly 200 wpm. You don't need to "hear" a word to understand it.
Flicking your eyes backward to re-read. Skilled readers regress less by trusting the first pass and letting comprehension catch up.
Stopping on one word at a time. Each stop costs ~0.25s. Widen your span to grab 2–3 words per stop and you halve the number of stops.
Your eye doesn't read while moving — only during the brief stops between jumps. Fewer stops means faster reading. Watch the same sentence get grouped into bigger bites.
This is RSVP — rapid serial visual presentation. Words flash at a fixed point so your eyes never travel. The red letter is the optimal recognition point; lock onto it and let the rest blur in. Paste your own text or use the sample.
For real text on a page, a moving highlight does what your finger did as a child: it sets a rhythm and kills regression. Press play and follow the lit word — don't let it get ahead of you.
*Based on ~1 hour of reading per day, moving from 238 to 450 wpm. Comprehension matters more than raw speed — train both.
Run the trainer 30% faster than feels comfortable for one minute. Don't aim to comprehend — just let your eyes get used to the pace.
Hum or count "1-2-3" softly while reading a paragraph. It occupies the speech loop so you can't subvocalize, forcing visual reading.
Use a pen or the pacer above to sweep under each line at a steady clip. Never let it stop, and never go back.
Read a fresh passage at a comfortable speed and write one sentence summarizing it. Comprehension is the real score.