A brief talk on several simple skills of fast reading.

The principle of fast reading is simple. As long as you have a certain reading foundation, you can master it after some training. Now let's talk about the application of some common fast reading skills in actual reading.

Explain what fast reading is in the simplest terms.

Speed reading can make you read the material faster, and you can master more in short-term memory, so your understanding will be better.

The way to improve reading speed is to read more words in each paragraph, reduce reading time in each paragraph, use indicators and reduce reading back.

Key problems of fast reading in practical application

The most important trick of speed reading is to make clear the purpose of reading, and to find out what information to get from the article before reading. If you just want to get the main points of the article, you can browse quickly and extract the necessary points. If you need to know the details of the article, then you should read it slowly in order to understand it thoroughly. You will save a lot of time by learning to browse very detailed documents.

Read the practical instructions quickly.

It's not enough if you know how to ignore irrelevant details. There are other skills to improve reading style to improve reading speed. Most people learn to read from the way children read, word by word or word by word. As an adult, this is probably not the way you read-think about how your eye muscles move when you read now. You will find your eyes looking at a certain paragraph, then move to the next paragraph, and so on. Read one paragraph at a time, not word for word. You will also find that you don't always jump from one paragraph to the next: if you are not sure about the meaning of the previous paragraph, sometimes you will go back and look at the previous paragraph.

A skilled reader will read many words in each paragraph. He just glanced at the details of each paragraph quickly and then went on. Readers rarely look back at the previous paragraph, which can reduce the workload of their eyes and increase the amount of information they can handle in a period of time. An unfamiliar reader will encounter difficulties and spend a lot of time reading short articles. He often looks back and misses the complete understanding of the coherent structure and theme of the article. Irregular eye movements make reading a tiring thing. Unfamiliar readers will hate reading and find it difficult to concentrate on understanding written information.

What should speed reading do in practical application?

Practice fast reading by:

1. Increase the number of words in each paragraph.

2. Reduce the time spent reading each paragraph.

3. Reduce the number of times you look back at a sentence.

The reason is this:

1. Increase the number of words in each paragraph.

This requires conscious exercise. Try to increase the number of words in each reading. With practice, you will read faster. Putting words farther away from your eyes can increase the number of words in each reading paragraph. The more words in each paragraph, the faster you can read.

2. Reduce the time spent reading each paragraph.

It takes at least a quarter of a second to read each paragraph, forcing yourself to spend less time, so that you can do better in obtaining information quickly. This is also a question of practice and confidence.

3. Reduce the number of times you look back at a sentence.

In order to reduce the number of times you read back, you can use an indicator to track the lines you read. The indicator can be a finger, pen or pencil. Your eyes following the tip of the indicator will make your reading process smoother. The speed of reading in this way depends largely on the speed of moving the pointer.