Reading Speed Trippled
Reading Speed: Reading in itself is the matter of great interest. To develop good reading practice, one should select really good books or good novels and magazines that provide interest more and more as you read them. Reading Speed is the natural gift to every literate human-being. The Reading Speed could be increased if so desired by anyone. There are various psychological methods or techniques for refining your Reading Speed skills such as breaking apart of longer words and eliminating sub vocalization. Sweeping of your hand very swiftly on the matter you are reading draws the attention of your eyes on that specific area making your reading rather speedy, is the best way of practicing Speed Reading.
History: It would prove to be interesting to know that some psychologists and some educational specialists who were working on the visual activities related questionnaire, developed the tachistoscope, which is the typical machine especially designed for alternating various images at varying rates on the screen. Such experiments were initiated with large images of the airplanes being displayed for all the participants. These images were gradually reduced in size and blinking rate was increased simultaneously. It was noticed that baked by the proper training, the average participants could identify even the minute images of different airplanes when blinked on the screen just for the one-five hundredth of a second. These results had inferences for reading. The United States of America’s Air Force, also by using the similar methodology, discovered that they too could blink four words at a time on the screen at the rate of one-five hundredth of a second with full recognition by the readers using.
Such training demonstrated very distinctly that, with some techniques the Reading Speed could easily be increased typically from reading rates to Speed Reading rates. The next step was about training eye movements by means of the varieties of speed techniques in the attempt for enhancing Speed Reading. It has been found that various reading courses widely used the tachistoscope for enhancing Reading Speeds. It was understood that the readers were able to increase their effective speeds from 200 words per minute to as much as 600 words per minute with the help of the same machine, which means the Reading Speed Trippled literally. However, the biggest negative aspect of the wonder machine tachistoscope was that after the specified course timings, the readers were not able to maintain the same speed in reading without tachistoscope machines.
This was no sooner followed by the renowned Harvard Business School which is said to have developed the first of its kind, film-aided Reading Speed course, especially designed to widening the reader’s field of focus for increasing the Reading Speeds. The focus again, was on the visual processing as the methodology of improvements. Anyway, such practice of using machine for increasing the Reading Speed was in fashion during 1940s.
Concept: In this computer era, there are various reputable courses that are based on normal academic reading theories, such as: the purpose of reading and the speed versus comprehension, keywords reading and skimming, and scanning ant formatting the material as well as practicing under the stipulated time frames.