I hear all the time that the only way to get faster at reading is to keep reading, but what goes in the brain to help with that? I’ve been reading my entire life but I feel like I’m still a slow reader.
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As you read more and more, you’ll just get used to seeing a lot of words and phrases repeated so often that you can kinda start to skip stuff without having to fully read it, because you already know what it says without scanning your eyes across the entire thing. Reading more will also expand your vocabulary and your understanding of grammar, which will reduce how often you get tripped up by words you don’t know or sentences phrased in a way you don’t immediately grasp.
However, there are hard limits to how fast anyone can read. There was a “speed-reading” craze in the 20th century, as the inventors of various methods argued you could teach yourself to read as fast as thousands of words per minute. But when they tested these methods rigorously against people reading normally, they found that people’s *comprehension* and *retention* plummeted when they were “speed-reading”, so they weren’t really reading, they were just skimming, which people obviously can already do.
There’s really no alternative to just reading more, and progressively reading harder stuff. As you get more practice, you’ll get better and faster at it.
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