Re:Zap Reader - Download to your brain as fast as you can ha...
by anigbrowl on Saturday September 26, 2009 @01:05AM
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I can handle 1000 wpm but it gets very lumpy for me - I get the sense of what I'm reading OK but my brain is constantly going 'wait, what?' and I can't really think about what I'm reading. Plus I hate it :-)
~600 wpm seems most comfortable. I wonder if it should (or already does) slightly lengthen the time for longer words, as it does for words with a period; other punctuation pauses would be good too. The period pause helps comprehension a lot. It's really quite amazing that our brains can read that fast.
It would be an interesting neurological comparison to know how this works for a non-alphabetical language like Chinese, too.
~600 wpm seems most comfortable. I wonder if it should (or already does) slightly lengthen the time for longer words, as it does for words with a period; other punctuation pauses would be good too. The period pause helps comprehension a lot. It's really quite amazing that our brains can read that fast.
It would be an interesting neurological comparison to know how this works for a non-alphabetical language like Chinese, too.