How can speed reading help you? Before we answer that, ask yourselves these questions. How many emails can you read in one minute? How many reports can you go through in one day? If you are student, how many lessons can you finish in a week? Imagine if you had a tool that will help you in reducing the time spent on all these activities. How much will your productivity improve?
Speed reading in a self improvement tool that can help you read faster without compromising on reading comprehension or memory retention. You do not have to enroll for classroom coaching or spend money on computer applications. You can practice some simple techniques daily that will improve your reading speed.
The underlying principle of speed reading is to train the eye to move faster across the texts. The texts are read as blocks of words and if you are able to increase the number of words in each block, you are closer to mastering speed reading.
Initially you will have to spend a little more time so that you are comfortably settled with the new habit of reading. Use a paper to hide text while reading. Along with that use a pointer or finger to help you focus on the text. Keep moving the pointer or finger at a slightly higher pace than your reading speed. Try to read faster than the speed of the pointer. Practice this technique about three to four times a day. The length of the reading material can be just one page and you can gradually increase it as your reading speed improves.
Another technique that you can practice without any effort is to skim and scan information. If you are in a business environment, you will find lot of business reports. Each report will have very less to convey. Try to find the information that is relevant by skimming the text. If you are not used to reading business reports, you can apply this while reading a newspaper. Once you know what the information is in a newspaper column reading the title, you will be in a position to scan the entire text in a lesser time to grasp the news.
It takes about 20 seconds to scan through the information in one page. Keep this in mind and make this your target. As you start, you may take more time to skim and scan the text, but as you progress you can reduce the time taken.
When the horizon that the eye covers is more, you can read more in less time. Keep the reading material a little away from you so that even your peripheral vision is put to use. This will help you improve your ability to see all words without having to move your eyes sideways.
Speed reading can become a habit with practice. Use the above techniques daily to read whatever you are reading. Within a few weeks of starting this practice, you will notice a considerable increase in your reading speed. You can then adopt various other techniques to improve it further.
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By Kathy Glee 
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