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submitted: Jul 29th 2008 | by: KimAllarie | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 392 | |

There have been a lot of claims about how speed reading can change your life by improving your understanding, knowledge and income earning potential. This is because speed reading can help you absorb information significantly faster than normal, improving your value to an employer.

For some people reading fast is the primary goal, whereas for others, it is far more important to improve their understanding and retention of information. A good speed reading course should deliver both outcomes and as a result improve both your personal and work life.

The average reading speed is about two words per second with normal comprehension. For normal reading needs this may well be enough, however a basic speed reading course can help increase the average reading speed to four (possibly six) words per second with the same comprehension level.

But there are those who have very particular reading requirements and wish to improve their reading speed to ten-plus words per second with better than normal understanding. A comprehensive speed reading program with lots of practice and testing can help them reach their objective.

Many speed reading programs train students to rapidly search through the text to ignore irrelevant information and pick out the pertinent parts. The idea is to be able to gather the essence of the material through reading entire sentences or phrases as a block, instead of just individual words.

Gaining Speed Without Losing Quality

One of the biggest challenges in speed reading is what is termed sub-vocalization. Children in their early years are taught to read to themselves, causing them to sound out every word in their head as they are reading. With speed reading, the words are not silently read in their mind while going through the material and only the words that have meaning to the context of the material are retained to become part of the comprehension of the material.

There are different ways of teaching and learning speed reading. Some techniques will get better results for some readers than others. Fundamentally, speed reading aims to train the brain to recognize only relevant words without sounding them in one's head. If you are not happy with your progress, look for a different speed reading program that teaches these skills in ways that work best for you.

Just like learning any new activity, you need to continuously practice your speed reading techniques in order to master the art.

About the Author

Kim Allarie would love to find a course in speed writing, but is content to learn speed reading for now. Learn more about this useful skill at The Speed Reading Site.

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