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School work involves a fair amount of tedious reading, which is why knowing how to get through and

comprehend text quickly is a useful skill to have. Looking to learn? Try incorporating the A-E-I-O-U

method.

In the above video demo (warning: 15 second ad) posted on instructional web site 5min, speed reading

guide Chris offers his advice on how to plow through your words. According to Chris, you can do so by

choosing a passage and voicing "A-E-I-O-U" or "one, two, three, four" as you read the text. He goes on

to say that the average person reads between 125-250 words per minute because they're still reading

with their larynx (even if not out loud). To read above this level, you need to read just with your eyes,

not your larynx. Chris suggests that repeating the above phrase will help train you to stop voicing the

word using your larynx, which will apparently help you to better visualize the text in its entirety and

thus get through your required (or other reading) faster.

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We're not promising you'll get through ten books a day, but the idea makes sense and certainly seems

like it could speed up your reading a bit. Looking for an alternative way to get through Geology 101?

Check out a few more previously mentioned speed-reading techniques

(http://lifehacker.com/152799/teach-yourself-speed+reading-techniques).

How to Speed Read (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/10/how-to-speed-read.html) [Boing

Boing]

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speed-reading techniques (http://lifehacker.com/152799/teach-yourself-speed+reading-techniques)

Keith Drury at Indiana Wesleyan University has published an article on different

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jupiterthunder (http://jupiterthunder.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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I'm sorry, what part of this makes sense? Convince me.

By the way. The way he read that to illustrate reading it in 9 seconds is pacing equivalent to a 1st

grader.

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@jupiterthunder: Well, the whole "sub-vocalization" part makes sense to me, and this is just a

method to try and reduce your ability to sub-vocalize, thus forcing you to understand words

without "saying" them in your head. I'm not sure it's necessarily something you'd do during

normal speed-reading, but more an exercise to wean people off sub-vocalization.

Er, so what part of that didn't make sense? Did it not work?

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Joshiii-Kun (http://joshiii-kun-old.kinja.com) jupiterthunder

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@jupiterthunder: What doesn't make sense? It's not some kind of new age thing. It's called

subvocalization. It's a pretty well known term, and it does limit the speed you read at.

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@jupiterthunder: Welcome to the world of productivity blogs, where untested, unproven "hacks"

are preferred

[www.academicproductivity.com] (http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/rethinking-life-

hacks/)

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@Joshiii-Kun: @kagekiri:

I understand that to read faster you have to approach silent reading differently than reading aloud.

What I'm not convinced of is the method. Seems to me if you want to "bypass your larynx" then it

would be more efficient to hold your breath than to say something that you're not actually

reading.

Anyway, I find RSVP works wonders. I doubled my output using that method and it was as simple

as increasing the frequency until I my comprehension couldn't keep up with the words. It was

rather natural for me to try this b/c I have been able to speedread by skimming with my fingers

for a long time. I also find that it does wonders to let someone/something else do the reading. I

crank up the speed on the Read Out Loud feature of Acrobat Reader and fly through text.

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BishopBlaize (http://bishopblaize.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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I started speedreading after reading the Speedreading Book by Tony Buzan, which I'd highly

recommend btw, and I found it enormously useful.

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however what was even more interesting is that my girlfriend, who has dyslexia, started using

some of the techniques and her reading speed and comprehension shot up, from the point where

realistically she couldnt read a large book because it took so long to get to the end, to a "normal"

reading speed. She also used to get headaches/eyeaches after reading a dozen pages or so, and

these stopped too.

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@BishopBlaize: A few people that I know who have dyslexia have been reading at "normal" or

above "normal" for quite a while. One of them uses a speedreading technique (could be the same

that you suggest, I do not know) and the other two have taken many specialized classes at various

places. I would think it would be hard to overcome, but people are bound to surprise.

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Protector one (http://protector1.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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Larynx?? At first I assumed it was a part of the brain (for voicing the words in your mind), but

when I realised it wasn't... Do many people really do this? Voice the words they read in their

throat?

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@Protector one: its impossible not to sub-vocalise at all, and much of the sub-vocalisation

becomes "intention to speak" in the throat. Try to imagine yourself typing and feel what your

hands so - they dont type, but they kind of "assume the position" as it were.

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Since sub-vocalisation is the first barrier to high reading speeds, by relaxing the throat, (or getting

it to do something else, apparently), you remove one of the "reminders" to sub-vocalisation.

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Phantom96 (http://phantom96.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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This is total pseudoscience, just like the last posting from this author.

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@Rob Davis: Well, to be fair, the majority of these "mindhacks" are pseudoscience, that doesn't

mean they don't work. It just means the current explanation doesn't satisfy.

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Being one of those "weird" people who read for fun... I only see the point of reading with the above

method if you are reading some huge budget proposal or faculty-review file. Further, as I

currently have to do none of those things... as interesting as this is, I'll pass. When I'm reading

fiction, I enjoy vocalizing the words in my head; it makes it more lively and adds character.

...and although it might make said budget proposal go by faster, it's a lot less interesting then

skimming it and using funny accents to satirize the person who wrote it.

But hey, that's all just me. Practice is the only thing I've ever needed to be able to read faster than

a lot of other people my age. (High school, and I'm not bragging, that's just been my observation.)

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@Matt Seiler: I feel the same way - especially with really first rate writers who really know how to

craft a sentence.

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Interesting solution - my problem when I try not to subvocalize is how to occupy the part of my

mind that craves sound. Sometimes that part goes wandering, looking for something to occupy it,

and then my mind is drifting...

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MSI, Captain (http://mysecretidentity.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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Without sounding like a braggart, I'll say that I tend to read fast and still have great

comprehension. A problem that I encounter with reading, however, is that when I read aloud, I

read about 8 times slower than when I read "in my head." I often find myself tripping over my

words because I will already be finished with the sentence in my head but just beginning to say it.

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@My Secret Identity:

same here, when i read my daughter a book I always trip over the words for the same reason, im

usually looking at a different word than i am trying to speak. I found i need to look at one word at

a time, but then i get confused at what im reading becuase i have to slow my mind down so

much...

My wife a is jealous how fast i can get through a book, but iim jealous at how well she speaks out

loud when reading.

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@mike_311: OHHH...

So that's the problem with my tutee....

I owe you one! =)

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@My Secret Identity: I'm exactly the same way. I have quite a bit of trouble reading out loud, and

have to slow down considerably to be understandable.

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foolish-rain (http://foolish-rain-old.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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Seriously? I don't know anyone above the age of 10 who voices with their larynx.

I can virtually guaranty that NO ONE says "a-e-i-o-u" when reading anything technical or dense

in my field (bio-medical research).

I believe that any student who adopts this technique is heading for disaster somewhere along the

way.

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@foolish-rain: I'm pretty sure it's meant to disassociate voicing words while reading for people

who have the problem. I don't see how that's heading for disaster.

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@liquidnumb: Exactly. Once your brain has made the mental leap to reading with just the eyes,

you can drop the A-E-I-O-U vocalization altogether and read silently, albeit much faster.

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@foolish-rain: This is simply to train yourself to stop voicing the words. He even says in the video

that you won't get any comprehension out of it.

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terceiro (http://terceiro-old.kinja.com) Azadeh Ensha

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I don't doubt that this helps some people read faster, but I'm not sure that it provides any benefit.

Students struggling with their reading speed would benefit from learning to skim rather than to

read faster. Read smarter.

Most of the time, the real trick is to simply allocate sufficient time to get the reading done at the

speed with which you're comfortable. Magic tricks to make you into a superhuman reader are a lot

like get-rich-quick schemes: a few people will score big, and the rest will waste their time/money.

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Einstein wasn't a speed reader. John Milton wasn't speed reader. I doubt Stephen Hawking is a

speed reader. I'm not a speed reader, and you don't need to be one, either. But you do need to learn

that you do have to read for three (or four or seven or ten) hours a day while you're in college.

Shortcuts that minimize that time are shortchanging your education.

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Invisobel (http://invisobel.kinja.com) terceiro

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@terceiro: Stephen Hawking ain't no speed typer either....*rimshot*

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@Invisobel: The reason why its so slow is because he chooses words off the screen and does not

use his fingers to perform selections, the computer measures his eye movements.

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I find it difficult to believe that 125-250 is average. I read at around 1500 words a minute and,

though I am admittedly a fast reader, I am not THAT much faster than everybody else I know. As

for reading the example phrase in 9 seconds...I have never heard anyone read that slowly unless

they are sounding out words..and that's out loud, which is slower than mental.

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@Bobwama: How do you "measure" your reading speed?

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@Bobwama: as for the reading example, yes i agree, no one really reads like that past kindergarten

or first grade. however, if you're reading at 1500 wpm, i really seriously doubt you're

comprehending very much (or you're reading very straightforward, utilitarian writing). one of the

most important things people should do (when reading literature, et al, not something like air

conditioner instructions) is not to speed up, but to slow way, way down.

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