Tim Ferriss's Speed Reading Method, in a Chrome Extension

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by ntoscano • 11 years ago

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ntoscano• 11 years ago

Tim Ferriss, in his "How to Triple Your Reading Speed in 20 Minutes", shows us a pretty neat trick to increase our reading speed. The only issue is, it only works for reading we do on paper. As you all know, most of our reading happens online nowadays. This chrome extension takes his method and allows you to apply it to any webpage/online articles.

ctoscano• 11 years ago

Here is a link to the article.

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2009/07/30/speed-reading-and-acc...

Thomas Frank breaks down the math in a video. Basically our eyes take so long to move and refocus, then read. The lines added by the chrome extension give you a target for your eyes to help practice using your periferal vision, requiring fewer eye movements to read a line.

https://youtu.be/jv2BdHXRD3Q

fitzwatermellow• 11 years ago

I have a quick and dirty speed reading hack: just read the first sentence of every paragraph in a long form article. You can usually infer the rest!

Nadya• 11 years ago

Tim Ferriss's method focuses a lot on eye movement. I question the decision of lines/keeping lines over making the words move instead of your eyes. On the web - we can move text to where our eyes are, instead of focusing on imaginary lines to aid in speed reading.

I use something similar to Squirt [0], unfortunately I forgot the name as I failed to properly name the bookmarklet. Unfortunately Squirt is a little buggy and doesn't strip out connecting/useless words (just, basically, a, etc.) but it gives a good idea of what I'm talking about.

I typically have it set to 850wpm~ which is good enough for comprehension so long as the material is within my vocabulary. If it doesn't parse well (punctuation like parenthesis often breaks the parsing) or the vocab isn't in my reach - I drop it down to 450-550wpm.

[0] https://www.squirt.io/install.html

Edit:

Spritz is another speed-reading bookmarklet that I recommend over Squirt, as the parsing is better:

http://www.spritzinc.com/

Tim Ferriss's Speed Reading Method, in a Chrome Extension

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