These are 2 of the recent Speed Reading Exercises I came up with and they rock.
a) ‘The dictionary’ - I go through the entire Oxford dictionary everyday just looking for a particular thing like symbols only, Capitalized words only, Names/Countries only, Other concrete nouns only, Numbers and dates only, Words ending with ies, es or s only, and so on. It takes me an hour for each and I never stop rest or change hand until I hear my alarm.
My left hand has been trained to rub the dictionary for more than an hour without stopping or switching. I don’t feel pains anymore and I don’t blink my eyes. Tear will drop, and when it stops I tend to see the entire page in a second – I get into a state of awareness.
b) ‘DashDashDashDash’ This exercise is the best I’ve ever used to get me focus and pay attention to every single space between words at a high speed. This is how it works. I Imagine all the spaces on a page are dashes(-) instead of spaces. This thing tricks the brain to think all the words are one. I never see words the way they are, so ‘house’ becomes -house-, ‘when’ as -when-, and so on.
Every word is connected to every other word. (The link speed reading system). Now, all I do is read only the dashes in-between the words forward and backward without stopping until the book finishes. It takes me 5-15 minutes to finish 250-600+ page book. Remember I don’t care about comprehension, but I end up understanding a lot because I was reading without pressure of comprehending anything.
Example of the ‘DashDashDashDash’ technique. "The-first-premise-of-speed-reading-is-that-the-way-most-peopleread,-is incorrect. Most-people-sound-out-words-when-they-read-either-out-loud,-or-using-an-inner-voice-in-their heads. This-is-an-effect-of-how-we-were-taught-to-read-when-younger–sounding-out-each word-one-by-one,-out-loud.
You go from right to left, then from left to right (with a pointer) while continuously chanting to yourself ‘DashDashDashDash’. Pay 100% attention/concentration to nothing but the dashes. If you go past a line, then realized you went past a line without paying attention, you should start all over again. Don’t blink, chant and concentrate 100% till the end of the book.
Exercise: Open a book on MS word, then change all the spaces to dashes. Print the book or practice with you device. NEVER STOP and NEVER READ. Keep pointing and chanting.
Advance/Adult method: The spaces are called ‘dash’ while the main words are called ‘idi*t’. So, you can chant ‘DashIdiot’ repeatedly. This method combines speed reading and humor/insult.