How to learn to read quickly is an urgent and difficult, but solvable question. One of the prerequisites for the success of self-study is a conscious desire, perseverance and practice.
The quick reading technique consists of several exercises that should be mastered. All exercises "work" independently, but are interconnected by a common idea - a change in attitude to the process of perception and assimilation of information.
In the framework of one article, it is impossible to disclose the content of all exercises.
Each exercise has a different weight fraction in increasing the speed of reading. There are two main exercises that decide the question - how to learn to read quickly.
We will consider them.
We learn to read quickly gradually, increasing speed as we acquire and master new skills of mental activity.
To monitor the success achieved, you must immediately start a diary.
At the beginning of the diary, it is necessary to determine and mark the initial reading speed. It is determined by the formula: The number of characters in the text is divided by the time taken to read it in minutes and is multiplied by the coefficient of understanding the meaning of what is read.
The coefficient that determines the understanding of the content read is determined by analyzing the answers to questions in the text. Each correct answer is assigned 0.1 points. The correct answers to all 10 questions will be 1 point.
The first entry in the diary will be the first step in resolving the issue - how to learn to read quickly.
The first and most difficult exercise is to learn to suppress articulation while reading.
Articulation is the main problem of speed reading. Suppressing articulation is the hardest exercise of all.
When performing the exercise, one must remember that not only the pronunciation of words (muttering or whispering) is excluded, but a new way of internal speech is created. He perceives the text only through visual recognition. The components of speech and hearing are completely excluded.
To avoid articulation during reading, you must constantly distract yourself with rhythmic movements of the fingers, counting numbers aloud with any remarks, i.e. in any way that you like more. The main thing is to distract the internal speaker from repeating aloud the text seen through the eyes.
You can get rid of articulation after 20-25 hours of training. How it turns out, but do not strive for records, the main thing is to get the desired result.
When the exercise is mastered and the expected result is obtained, i.e. reading without articulation, check your reading speed and write the result in a diary.
How to learn to read quickly is the second exercise.
Learning to read quickly through expanding the angle of peripheral vision and attention.
Before starting the second exercise and after mastering it, also enter data on your reading speed in the diary.
The essence of the exercise can be illustrated by the example of high-speed typing on a typewriter or PC keyboard. Especially where the keyboard is divided into two parts. At the same time, the user works with each hand separately only on “their” part of the keyboard, without duplication.
So it is with reading. Each eye can and should bring "its" part of the printed images to the brain, separately. The eyes look parallel in the general direction, but each one covers only "its" part, without focusing at one central point in the common center.
Due to the parallel view, the lateral or peripheral vision expands. You can see a large area with text without making unnecessary eye movements. Thereby increasing the speed of "removal" of information or reading speed.
This exercise will help you learn to read aloud quickly. It goes without saying that, in principle, it is necessary to read a lot aloud, daily.
Having learned to work with expanded peripheral vision, the speed of reading out loud will automatically increase due to the fact that the brain will always have an “operational stock” of words that have not yet been spoken, but have already been seen through the eyes and transmitted to the brain.
Without developed peripheral vision, the brain often does not have a stock of “extra” words for their pronunciation, because their eyes have not yet been seen and have not been transferred to him.
Everything is simple and complicated at the same time. Easy to understand, but difficult to learn.
Nevertheless, a conscious desire and perseverance will certainly give the expected result.