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by carapace 1437 days ago
If you want to read fast write a little tool to do "Rapid Serial Visual Presentation".

The basic idea is that you flash words on a screen in the same location so that your eyes don't have to pan back and forth, you just look straight ahead.

Your eyes and brain can recognize whole words as a gestalt (without reading each letter.)

That's it.

This method cuts out most of the physical overhead of reading.

When I played with it I got to the point where I could read over 500 words/minute. I could read faster than my internal voice could speak.