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by nuclearnice1 1465 days ago
A convincing example. What were the couple techniques that worked for you?
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- chunking https://www.speedreadinglounge.com/reading-groups-of-words - hand-pacing https://www.speedreadinglounge.com/hand-pacing - for technical books, use the table of contents, subheadings, etc to build a mental map in my head of the book

Chunking has been the most helpful for me, but I assume it's different for everyone. It took some time to get used to it. There are several tactics to improve but the one that was most helpful for me was breaking up the line of text into 3 chunks and keeping my eyes stationary within those 3 chunks. In other words, try to read the first third of the line without moving my eyes, then move my eyes to the center of the line and read the middle third, etc.