Reading books or articles are one way to learn a new skill; learning with software is another one. In this post we review five of the best speed reading software. These programs are designed to help increase your reading speed and comprehension, train your eyes or eliminate subvocalization. Guided training plans will enable you to apply various learning strategies and to monitor your progress. [Read more...]
What Is The Best Speed Reading Software?
August 19, 2011 By 4 Comments
5 Books To Teach Yourself Speed Reading
August 9, 2011 By 4 Comments
The internet is quite a powerful tool to learn new skills. A set of keywords on your favorite search engine produces hundreds of pages of reading material. As you know from your own experience, it would take ages to read them all. Well, one good technique is to filter results and preselect them for reading. Another one is learning to read faster, and, with the help of books.
Speed reading techniques have been taught since the 1980’s. Through the years, different styles have been developed supposedly to help us read and understand more in less time. Below we review five speed reading books to help you get started. [Read more...]
21 Days Speed Reading Challenge, Part 2
February 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to part 2 of the free 21 Days Speed Reading Challenge. While module 1 was all about exercising basic speed reading techniques, module 2 will add a few advanced techniques to strengthen your skills. Jump on board and increase your reading speed! It’s free and fun.
Free 21 Days Speed Reading Challenge, Part I
January 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today’s post introduces part one of the free 21 Days Speed Reading Challenge. The challenge is suitable for both beginners and experienced readers. It will focus on practicing speed reading techniques, and daily.
The big goal: increased reading speeds and comprehension as well as a more intuitive way in using those techniques. [Read more...]
Increase Reading Speed and Comprehension in 5 Steps
January 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
I like articles that come as a quick snap of how to do something. So, today we look at five important steps to increase reading speed and comprehension. You may click the image further down to enlarge the mind map providing extra information for each point. Please leave a comment to discuss any questions or suggestions! [Read more...]
6 Speed Reading Articles From The Blogosphere
December 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have bookmarked quite a few articles about speed reading in Firefox, but have found it to be difficult to remember what each link was about it. In this post I therefore have compiled a list of articles from mindtools.com focusing on the concept of speed reading. There’s a short lead followed by the link. There will be more article suggestions like this covering various topics such as reading comprehension or beating bad reading habits. MindTools hosts many articles on how to learn new skills such as speed reading suitable for work and daily life. [Read more...]
Learn Reading Word Groups With PDFs
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Videos are one source to grab the idea of speed reading. However, it is daily exercise and practicing with actually written material that will lead to increased reading speeds or words per minute. Training the brain to take groups of words or to grab the idea of a whole sentence in one go is the backbone of these exercises. Daily exercise is the best way to do so. [Read more...]
