Reading speed

Canyarion · 10-04-2005, 05:17 AM

I read pretty slow, I want to absorb every word, every detail.

Some people don't read words, but blocks or something. They read incredibly fast, but when you ask them what the main characters name was, they don't know.

So how do you read?

Dyne · 10-04-2005, 05:28 AM

I read as fast as my imagination can keep up. It's not uncommon for me to go back and read a paragraph if I suspect to sleep reading. In grade school I was given this massive 3-day course on studying, and one of the main things they demonstrated how to avoid sleep-reading.

So basically if I start thinking about other things I won't realize it for half a page so I just go back to where I remember from.

I really, really hate dense textbooks. I have the luxury of mostly good textbooks this year. But My Discrete Math textbook is the most boring pile of crap I've ever read. Thankfully it has a lot of examples.

Typhoid · 10-04-2005, 07:35 AM

I'm basically the same, I read relatively fast, If I read too slow I feel like I should be wearing a helmet, but if I read too fast, my imagination cant keep up.

Of course, this all depends what I'm reading.

Jonbo298 · 10-04-2005, 11:47 AM

I usually read pretty quick. Sometimes I skip over things if I feel in the beginning its not worth the time or something

GameMaster · 10-04-2005, 02:13 PM

I usually go medium/fast. I'll need to take Dyne's tips into consideration because often I have trouble remembering what happened later.

Teuthida · 10-04-2005, 05:30 PM

I've been told I read fast. I guess that's true but nowadays I take such long breaks between when I'm actually reading it takes forever to read a book if it's not great. I remember in second grade I used to read 3 Goosebumps books a day. R.L. Stein was a god.

Same thing happens to me with the sleep reading. A page later I realize I was off on other things and have to go reread what I just read but wasn't paying attention to.

Vampyr · 10-04-2005, 05:52 PM

I read groups of words at a time, I go fast, and I comprehend.

I've been a very very avid reader sense I learned how to, though.

Jonbo298 · 10-04-2005, 06:47 PM

You have to wonder...has the internet made our reading abilities ALOT better then say...someone who has never used a computer? With the amount of text we see everyday, I suspect it plays a huge role

GameMaster · 10-04-2005, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

You have to wonder...has the internet made our reading abilities ALOT better then say...someone who has never used a computer? With the amount of text we see everyday, I suspect it plays a huge role

In addition to that, I think being a forum user has improved my writing abilities. Even though I struggle with finding the motivation to write my school papers, I find that when I finally sit down at 11:00 P.M. to start them, the finished product is pretty good.

Last semester, I had to take a writing class where we just wrote essays and the only paper I didn't get an A on was the one I turned in a couple weeks late. I attribute my success to my thousands of posts at GameTavern. Thanks everyone!

Dyne · 10-04-2005, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

You have to wonder...has the internet made our reading abilities ALOT better then say...someone who has never used a computer? With the amount of text we see everyday, I suspect it plays a huge role

Well somewhat. It's nothing compared to the skill in typing you gain. I still use an evolved two-finger technique and I'm faster than a lot of people I know. Around 80 WPM right now.

Vampyr · 10-04-2005, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

Well somewhat. It's nothing compared to the skill in typing you gain. I still use an evolved two-finger technique and I'm faster than a lot of people I know. Around 80 WPM right now.

Jeeze...I can't imagine typing like that. It would wear me out, too much movement of the hands.

I think learning to type is the most useful thing I've ever gotten out of school. Heh.

Teuthida · 10-04-2005, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

Well somewhat. It's nothing compared to the skill in typing you gain. I still use an evolved two-finger technique and I'm faster than a lot of people I know. Around 80 WPM right now.

Hahaha. Me too, except I use 4 fingers: Index and Middle fingers. Most keys are hit by my right middle and left index though. Quite odd but my mind memorized the placement of every key so now my hands fly about the keyboard.

GameMaster · 10-04-2005, 09:09 PM

I too, am an exclusive index finger typist. I can fly with the fastest of them though, at least the average full fingered typist.

Dyne · 10-04-2005, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Teuthida

Hahaha. Me too, except I use 4 fingers: Index and Middle fingers. Most keys are hit by my right middle and left index though. Quite odd but my mind memorized the placement of every key so now my hands fly about the keyboard.

Well when I say evolved two-finger, I mean I use all 10 fingers, except it's not "proper".

I don't think I could ever learn the proper way now. I also never use shift to make things capitals - hah.

Kitana85 · 10-08-2005, 07:32 PM

I tend to read rather quickly. As a history major, with minors in PoliSci and Judeo-Christian texts, I end up with 40-50 pages of reading a night minimum. Yeah, if you can't read fast, your sorta screwed. At any rate, I find that I tend to lose more if I read more slowly, in part because for me, slower reading tends to be a symptom of reading the writing instead of being in the writing.