Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier

Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by thejacenxpress on Thursday September 05, 2013 @04:11PM (#6336616)

I did find it easier to read faster, however I do believe the JFK portion was chunked with a lot of bigger words/data like years, cities, full names whereas the SBA paragraphs were simpler (IMHO).

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Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by gnicholas on Thursday September 05, 2013 @05:45PM (#6337292)

The reading test is randomized—different people get different stories in color or black. The order of black/color is also randomized. It's not perfect, but it'll have to hold us over until the larger study from the university research lab is completed.

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Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by aquark on Thursday September 05, 2013 @05:42PM (#6337273)

Would be great if they could A/B test the text used. I found the JFK portion harder to read/understand and I don't think it was entirely the colouring.

Still, I think it is a cool idea and will give the bookmarklet a try for a while.

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Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by scholia on Thursday September 05, 2013 @05:53PM (#6337347)

JFK passage was definitely harder to read. Even so, I got:

"It looks like BeeLine didn't improve your reading speed this time through."

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Re:Show HN: Ditch Black Text to Read Faster, Easier by hisham_hm on Friday September 06, 2013 @03:30PM (#6342181)

Interesting. I got 5% improvement with BeeLine.

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