Speed Reading Speed reading, or even stands for the ability to incorporate information from texts faster than the average reader.
For a variety of texts and purposes are different methods applied here.

• Introduction
• The 3 main reading errors
• The tricks of fast reading
• The scanning technique
• What is favorable to Speed Reading

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I want to begin to explain to you the 3 Hauptlesefehler that prevent a fast reading. This we have trained to during school, as we learned to read, - the time it made sense to learn to read at all. Today you should 'bad' reading habits, learn down again, as it you are just unnecessary.

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The 3 most reading errors

Vocalisation (subliminal a say / listen)

The constant throttle Subvokalisieren during reading, our reading speed we needed, for we adjust it automatically to our speech speed.
Our brain is capable of much faster record and process information as we can make it. Begin, therefore, deliberately so, as little as possible to speak with the read.

They will not and should not leave it entirely. On the contrary. For the difficult words to understand a say is even an important factor to the sense. Try to slow down but otherwise your "inner voice".


Regressive reading (Jump back in the text)

Have you ever noticed that you read often wander with your thoughts and then jump back in the text back to the place where you have lost the plot? This is because you undertax your brain! Taking on full and effective to focus on a text, is harder than you think. It costs a lot of jumping back and this time we want to save, after all. How can so as to prevent that, our thoughts wander? Very easy to remember: If you migrate your thoughts, you read faster. Even if you are afraid you might miss something important here, just do it. You will notice that your thoughts remain with the text content. Ultimately, you are thereby not only read faster but also keep more of the text.


Narrowed focus view

Each person learns first of the alphabet. Then followed a simple short words. I for one learned to read with Fara and Fu, 2 puppets, whose name we learned to write. Only "Fu", then "Fara", then "Fara and Fu," etc. (certainly one or the other one term). This was followed by words that were longer, like Mom or Dad. The first years so they read letter by letter is the word to be understood as a whole.
About M - O - M - Y and D - A - D - D - Y. Then the detection of single letters was necessary to learn the first words and their spelling. Today you are on another level, and yet you still read a lot of unnecessary characters even though you are actually able to understand the meaning of the word "Mama" at a glance. Make reading even aware of how many letters you fix unnecessary to read the word.


The tricks of the fast reading

I will explain here are the most efficient methods of fast reading.
There are 5 individual steps that make your complete reading habits on the head and you will have at least read faster by 2.5 times.

In between, I will refer to practical exercises in order to give you the chance to apply the theory directly into practice.


Comprehension of meaning groups: (From letters to words, words make sense to group)

While we fix several times of reading individual letters and words to.
This happens so fast (about ¼ of a second) that the normal reader hardly notices it.
This stop is called "view stops". As already mentioned, this constant stopping is from our elementary school in which we have learned to read.
This habit you have to try to slowly wean again.

The following chart shows how the view stops affect your reading speed.

Reading speed in connection with a view stops:


The view focus here is not limited to the exact location of the stroke.

As you can see, the time differences are enormous and vary from 28 seconds to 2 ½ seconds.

You can train your eyes to affect entire groups of words instead of individual letters or words.

This will benefit enormously by the following factors:

• A distance of 35-40 centimeters respect to the text. (This may vary depending on your vision of course)
• If possible, look at an angle of 45 ° on the to-read text.
• Your train peripheral vision. (Exercise 1)
• With a good read and especially uniform lighting.

Practice fix your whole groups of words:

Try to collect you once at a glance this phrase:



It is a given of the eye to be able to capture such a phrase at once entirely. At least if you keep to the right, individual spacing!

Try now, in contrast, once "as usual" to read:



The acquisition of word groups is therefore extremely important to optimize your reading speed. Strict you are now not too strong, it's only to see groups of words, this would only lead to the opposite.

Your eyes adjust to ideal phrase detection, you must be relaxed in particular. It is a bit of practice to do so. Start with this, a simple phrase to cover only and not understand the meaning behind it.


Phrases capture - Exercise 1

Relax now and try with a look the following groups of words to grasp and not to let your eyes jump back and forth.

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Remember how easy it is to you an entire word should be recorded as soon as you are not trying as usual to focus on individual characters?
Repeat the exercise, you should still always have jumped back and forth with your eyes and go on until the next exercise.


Phrases capture - Exercise 2

In the following exercise, the phrases are peppered with scraps of information, you know.
Try reflect the nature of the "willing to recognize" just to cover only the intervention group and not to understand the meaning of words.

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You've probably already fallen, this will be a little heavier than the exercise 1. It automatically attempts to recognize words and their meaning.
Try this exercise is still a Second and Third time before ultimately moving on to the last word group exercise.

Phrases capture - Exercise 3

In this exercise you will be asked one more time to read the sentences and to understand, but to capture only.
If you notice that you read the sentences, start from scratch. It is of paramount importance that you master the technique of phrase detection.

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Concentration is out of

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Greetings to all who know me

A great thing

Once a deep breath

True reality is not it

Punctuation - meaning groups of punctuation marks

A very important part in capturing the sense of groups punctuation (punctuation marks).
So you can see the end or a beginning of a sense of group in a punctuation mark.

For example:

... It snowed incessantly, so many came too late ...

You can easily see with your peripheral or perceive as punctuation points, or commas, without the need to focus.


Since not every text is provided with punctuation marks, we still need to manage an additional tricks, trying to grasp nouns from the text.
These are ideal for this, as they, at least in the German language, are capitalized.
Note that a noun should be more widely seen as the end as a beginning of a sense group, as descriptive prepositions, adjectives and articles are usually in front.

For example:

... everything has a beginning ...

Not looking like crazy for nouns in the text, but keep this as a valuable tip in your head.



Customize your text to the reading technique

It is the fast reading is not just stubborn apply the learned content here.
Much more important is to apply the proper techniques for the text you have before you.

So it is something else, if you read a technical book or a novel.
In a novel you happen to be many familiar words, so you can more quickly grasp word and meaning groups, as a factual text with technical terms, which is largely unfamiliar.

I'll show you several techniques now that allow you to meet the different types of texts best.


Scanning

If you have a particularly comprehensive text in front of you, from which you just need some information, which is the best method of "scanning" for it.
It is useful here before certain key words or character set, after which it targeted "scan" is.
Try to imagine as to how that word looks written.
Go to the text, not line by line, but find your own style as you search for the best.
Some read zig zag, paragraphs, from top to bottom ... Try out what works best for you.

Skimming

The "skimming" or simply fly over "record" line by line, word groups, you only visually, but ignoring the details.
This is a great way for example, a paperback book to read. Keep it soft and relaxed look focus. Read forward and jump back above all, even if you feel something to have missed, this is not a problem and part of the "skimmer". The message or the key message you remain in any case. So you will remember the content of the story as good as someone who has used the book for three or four times as long!

Paragraphing

The "paragraphing" or "Absatzlesen" it's about the gist of a (well-structured) text to capture this quickly by knowing where is the core message.

Example, it is in most newspaper articles printed in bold at the beginning of an introduction to the topic.
Several paragraphs that follow detailed descriptions and in the end there is a résumé.
Read the first paragraph completely and the following paragraphs only the beginning. You can also try a combination of scanning or skimming (depending on the text) and then the end, the résumé. . Read If you are in between the paragraphs come across something interesting, go quietly into the details of the text and read the passage in full. Make sure, however, then back to skimmer on it or to scan and read mainly forward. Avoid regressive reading!

This technique works only if the text is actually constructed as described. Does he have an introduction? A closer descriptive middle and end of a résumé? To feel free to go as described before.

Here is one way how you can do if you want to read a factual text.

• Get a first impression. Headings, bold printed words or repetitive attention and are important.
• You skimmers to launch and the résumé.
• Paragraphing of the remaining parts of the text scanning with simultaneous, important words.
• Take last key words very seriously. Try to gain an overview of the information and the key message in the text.

What favors the speed reading:

* Looking ahead, read on. Think about what reading strategy you want applied to your text. We distinguish between a variety of texts that we read all different.
Do you have a specialized text on? A newspaper article or read a paperback book?
* Expand your vocabulary. The more debt and other words you know, the faster you perceive the meaning of the word in the recording of sense groups.
* You pause right. Fast reading and good understanding require a lot of concentration. If you read highly concentrated, you should load every 15 minutes, a short break. Move around a bit and you do relaxation exercises for your eyes. Reflect recovered in thought once more the just read and get back to the reading.


In the beginning, I have recommended your reading speed to be determined.
Try it again now and compare.

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