How to increase your reading speed?
Category : TUTORIALS Author : sohan preet Date : Sun May 06 2018 Views : 20
What is your reading speed?
An average person has reading speed around 250 words per minute. But how can we increase our reading speed so that we can read more.
For this, let us first understand why we have a limited reading speed and why some of us don't even have that average speed.
Habits that make us a slow reader
1) When we read sometimes, we speak the words loudly. Obviously your speed of uttering words is much slower than your speed of thinking; which is actually very fast. So when you speak words loudly, you are just reading at speed you can speak.
Even if we don't speak loudly, we sub vocalize the words. This means that we keep on speaking words in our mind. This also leads to slow reading.
In order to correct this, you need to reduce sub vocalization and you can practice this. I will tell you how to do it.
2) Reading lines from left to right.
This is an important factor that decreases your reading speed. In order to be a fast reader, you should read from top left corner to right, reading two-three lines at the same time. Make sure to improve this gradually as you should also understand the topic well.
3) Vocabulary: You should have a good vocabulary in order to read fast.
4) Proper concentration and posture is must while reading. Most importantly you should be totally into reading while reading.
How to do this?
There are various exercises which you can do in order to do this.
You can practice meditation.
You can take help of apps like - Vocab24 and Elevate.
Elevate is actually a great app to improve your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills and have a good vocabulary.
It also makes you good at mental calculations.
To read well, you must start now. Start reading and you will gradually improve. You should make a habit of looking through the lines and understanding the connotative meaning as well as denotative meaning.
Communication skills are very important for our career also. They can make or destroy our personality. In today's world, these skills are more important than bookish knowledge.
I again say you all to try Elevate. Though the pro pack is costly, but you can get amazing things free. It also tracks how well you are doing by its EPQ technique.
What is your reading speed?
An average person has reading speed around 250 words per minute. But how can we increase our reading speed so that we can read more.
For this, let us first understand why we have a limited reading speed and why some of us don't even have that average speed.
Habits that make us a slow reader
1) When we read sometimes, we speak the words loudly. Obviously your speed of uttering words is much slower than your speed of thinking; which is actually very fast. So when you speak words loudly, you are just reading at speed you can speak.
Even if we don't speak loudly, we sub vocalize the words. This means that we keep on speaking words in our mind. This also leads to slow reading.
In order to correct this, you need to reduce sub vocalization and you can practice this. I will tell you how to do it.
2) Reading lines from left to right.
This is an important factor that decreases your reading speed. In order to be a fast reader, you should read from top left corner to right, reading two-three lines at the same time. Make sure to improve this gradually as you should also understand the topic well.
3) Vocabulary: You should have a good vocabulary in order to read fast.
4) Proper concentration and posture is must while reading. Most importantly you should be totally into reading while reading.
How to do this?
There are various exercises which you can do in order to do this.
You can practice meditation.
You can take help of apps like - Vocab24 and Elevate.
Elevate is actually a great app to improve your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills and have a good vocabulary.
It also makes you good at mental calculations.
To read well, you must start now. Start reading and you will gradually improve. You should make a habit of looking through the lines and understanding the connotative meaning as well as denotative meaning.
Communication skills are very important for our career also. They can make or destroy our personality. In today's world, these skills are more important than bookish knowledge.
I again say you all to try Elevate. Though the pro pack is costly, but you can get amazing things free. It also tracks how well you are doing by its EPQ technique.
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