How to read faster and understand

1. Eliminates Subvocalization.

The subvocalization is mentally repeat what we read. It is a natural reflex that makes everyone to read and does not read as fast as we could. The point is that costs subvocalization eliminate because it is something that we have very entrenched. At first try to eliminate subvocalization read and I hardly learned anything. I needed a lot of practice to get mentally read without repeating what I read and to hear what he was reading. If you can eliminate this habit you will see that this will read only much faster.

2. Breaks between groups of words

The second tip is to not read sentences word for word. It's about making small steps with the view to read the sentences and mentally grouping small groups of between 2 and 3 (or 4) words. This is the most difficult to carry out counsel, but as above, only requires practice. Let's see an example with one sentence:


Look at the previous sentence. Instead of trying to read it from beginning to end, start reading the sentence and try to make smaller red dots mental "pictures". Try to use your peripheral vision to read the words closest to the points.

3. Use a guide

Remember when small we used to learn to read finger as a guide? They have always told us not to continue reading with your finger ... Now I suggest you do something similar: use your finger, a pen or a ruler to mark the words you're reading. This advice with the previous two causes go much faster reading.

4. reread

I think unconsciously reread for two reasons: sometimes because we do not pay all the attention it should while reading, and sometimes because we know that if we are unaware of what we read nothing happens, we go back and reread. If you consciously try to be focused 100% in reading and rereading avoid, see how we won a lot more time and therefore will read faster.

These are the methods that I especially have done well to improve my reading speed, although they might not go well with you. You just need to try and see if you can improve or not.

You know that the intuition according to which things is not a good guide, so I recommend you read a page of a book with your usual method of reading and time yourself, then Bring it to read using these tricks and time yourself to see the difference. So you know if you get read faster have the certainty that you've made and no intuition, which sometimes makes us see what is not.