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2012-09-06 01:53 2958945 Anonymous Speed Reading (9.jpg 700x2578 194kB)
How fast can you read?
Also, do you have any strategies?
5 min later 2958954 Anonymous
I can read extremely fast with very little comprehension, or talk out the thing in my head and understand it. When I'm reading really fast, I think I know what I'm reading. But when I stop, I realize that I don't remember a goddam thing I just read.
11 min later 2958966 Anonymous
whats the point?
I need tips for slow reading, when I have something I really enjoy I blow through it
case and point a new 4 part series came out recently, somewhat of a carry on from a last series and the last ever on this particular universe probably ever, read through all 4 in a week or so, fucking sucked man
13 min later 2958972 Anonymous
>>2958966
Try reading something that's not at the 3rd grade level.
15 min later 2958974 Anonymous
Whoa whoa, we're all friends here. No need for flaming here, especially when the guy who made that comment will probably never see your post.
20 min later 2958986 Anonymous
15 - 25 pages/hour, depending on its difficulty; 10 if they're in German.
Pretty slow I think, which bothers me, but not so much.
25 min later 2958995 Anonymous
>>2958966
try reading "the ambassadors," "the wings of the dove," or "the golden bowl," and make sure to pay attention. henry james taught me to read.
37 min later 2959018 βPictorishawk
Hawks average about 4 pages a minute, they comprehend and appreciate every damned word and how it relates to every other word. We've extrapolated the placement of every bit of matter in the universe from descriptions of the celestial, and have experienced enough in a short amount of time that nothing really satisfies us more than the mundanity of small game and flight.
We raptors are the true patricians of the world, though you shouldn't aspire to be among us; keep your mystic curiosity, it's a more rewarding way to live.
37 min later 2959021 Anonymous
>>2959018
Who's this cunt?
40 min later 2959030 βPictorishawk
>>2959021
No one in particular, just some bored jackass taking a joke too far.
Seriously though, fuck speed reading if it isn't innate.
15 hours later 2960229 Anonymous
>AS SEEN ON 9FAG
Cute
15 hours later 2960236 Anonymous
At least 300 miles per hour.
16 hours later 2960273 Anonymous
>>2958966
>case and point
I think I've worked out your problem: you're fucking illiterate.
16 hours later 2960276 Anonymous
>>2959030
I've been innately speed reading since I was 6.
I'm not sure what to feel.
16 hours later 2960314 Anonymous
>>2958954
Oh shit nigga, I know this feel. My childhood was spent reading, but then my desire stagnated and now my passion for reading is dead.
16 hours later 2960319 Anonymous
Oh God that pic.
When were memes ever about radicalism?
16 hours later 2960324 Anonymous
>9fag in charge of inventing anything
16 hours later 2960325 Anonymous
>>2960273
jeeesus, it's a fucking doggy dog world out here
16 hours later 2960341 Anonymous
>>2958986
Are you me?
16 hours later 2960342 Anonymous
>>2960325
Yea. I mean the guy did get his point across, for all intensive purposes.
16 hours later 2960350 Anonymous
>>2959030
It wasn't funny to start with
16 hours later 2960351 Anonymous
>>2958945
It's not about speed, it's about comprehension.
17 hours later 2960357 Anonymous
>>2960342
Grammar nazis are a diamond dozen these days
17 hours later 2960359 Anonymous
>>2960357
*Grandma nasties. Get it write, faggot
17 hours later 2960360 Anonymous
>>2960342
>intensive purposes
It's "for all intents and purposes"
17 hours later 2960370 Anonymous
>>2960360
Yeah, what a moron. Nowadays good posters on /lit/ are a diamond dozen.
17 hours later 2960371 Anonymous
>>2960360
>thatsthejoke.gif
17 hours later 2960383 Anonymous (1341499250098.jpg 500x342 44kB)
17 billion words per nanosecond.
Now, fuck off.
17 hours later 2960390 Anonymous
>>2960325
>>2960342
>>2960357
>>2960359
This shit never stops being funny
17 hours later 2960397 Anonymous
It's actually extremely rare for someone to be a good speed-reader (I'm talking about those who can read at over 1000 words per minute with more than 60% comprehension) without any training. Most readers (like 99% of them) read at speeds between 150-300 words per minute with around 60-80% comprehension.
If you really want to improve your reading abilities, you can take a speed-reading course and they do work. The problem is that if you don't use that skill often enough, you'll just lose it.
17 hours later 2960403 Anonymous
>>2960390
yes it does
34 hours later 2962055 Anonymous
>>2958945
accuracy > speed
34 hours later 2962059 Anonymous
>>2960403
No it dozen
35 hours later 2962076 Anonymous
>>2962059
You just went full retired.
36 hours later 2962246 Anonymous
Some things you cannot speed read, like Finnegans Wake. With regards to literature I think it a useless endeavour. But then I can read super fast anyway with a high comprehension.
Comprehension, by the way, is more about memory and analysis. It's something very active, and I always get the impression that most people interested in speed reading want reading to be something passive.
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