Speed Reading Software and tools: Excellent resource!

Reading is that one activity that we do every day but we don't really practice. Most people learn the basics of reading in kindergarten and never graduate to the next levels.

You are probably using the same basic rudimental tools and techniques that you learned when you were 6. The average American person reads at an average speed of 180 to 240 words per minute and has done so since he was 16 years old. Does it make sense that we hit our best performance at age 16 and that we don't improve much after that? Keep in mind less than 10% read at 400 words per minute and less than 1% faster than 600.

Have you ever wished you could take one of those costly speed reading courses? The problem with those courses is that you have to keep practicing those techniques until they become second nature. That's the goal of this site.

We are here to keep you focused and to help you improve your speed reading everyday.

Using this tool will help you eliminating sub-vocalization. What is sub-vocalization? Sub-vocalization is that voice that you hear in your head as you're reading this text. In many cases it manifests itself as your vocal chords actually engaging as if you were reading out loud. Regression is also a common reading problem fixed by eyercize. Regression happens when you read the same sentence more than once.

Many people experience this problem where they kinda go into a loop and read the same phrase or paragraph multiple times without noticing it. On the left there are the controls of this neat application. You can increase the speed of the pacer just press the letter "i" on your keyboard. Conversely to decrease the speed you would just press the letter "d". If this text is too small to read you can increase the size with the handy slider on the left. Try different settings, I personally love page mode showing 20 lines at the time.

Read faster and get more things you care about done. In the era of information anxiety it's easy to get overwhelmed. Even if you were just to use only this reading pacer you'll probably learn how to read 2-3 times faster than you do right now. So what are you waiting, install our bookmarklet on the left and start reading you website faster. Many new things are coming out from eyercize so stay tuned.

via eyercize.com

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