Speed Reading?

[Anonymous No.1735681]

I can assign no foreseeable value to speed reading.

How many of you "speed-read", how did you learn to do so and in what time, and do you find it to be undoubtedly more efficient than reading at merely an "above average pace"?

Essentially, speed reader's thoughts on speed reading; in as much depth as you care to go into(preferably as far as you can).

[Anonymous No.1735971]

it makes me smarter than everyone else

[Anonymous No.1735987]

Speed reading isn't exactly something that you have to do but learning to do it will typically increase the speed of your in-depth reading as well. In fact, the more you read in everyday life, the quicker your reading becomes although some eye muscle exercises(they do exist) will help quicken how rapidly you change lines. All in all, it's a decent way to get through something you don't have much interest in while still wanting to retain around 50% of the information but true and deep reading requires the brain to visualize the piece of literature as well which isn't easily done via speed reading.

[Insinuates gODS No.1735988]

I am. Can read up to 100 pages before I fall asleep.

500+ wpm, skilled fingerpoint reader. But I'm still to reach my full potential. I'll probably reach 900wpm and that's it. It's just to fast beyond that. I'll need to memorize plenty of whole sentences.

It's sometimes also called rapidreading, sonicreading.

Knew this kid that could read 1400+ wpm. Sick stuff bro. Kid was genius. He once got sick and threw up for reading a book to fast, he told me he's unable to distinguish the story from reality from all the information.

What more you need to know?

[Anonymous No.1735993]

>>1735988
that's pretty cool. my friend told me he could get a super secret pokemon because his uncle works for nintendo. also he has a girlfriend, but she's from canada, you wouldn't know her.

[Anonymous No.1735994]

Once I mastered the art of speed reading I decided to begin applying the same method to other acts.

Now I speed eat every meal.
I watch every film on fast forward.
I listen to music speed up to at least twice it's normal speed.
I only do speed dates now.
Currently I am teaching myself to speed groom. I find that shaving my head has eliminated a whole five minutes of speed washing and speed combing.

[Anonymous No.1735998]

>>1735988
cool my dad's a time traveler brucwe lee chuck norris

[Insinuates gODS No.1736001]

>>1735993

Either you are too retarded to see trough my insanely over-acted useless input. Or, you saw trough it and played along...Which is it?

[None !!JeFdBislsNA No.1736009]

>>1736001
Either you are too retarded to spell "through", or you can spell it but you too lazy to do so...which is it?

[Anonymous No.1736016]

>>1735994
Quality post, 10/10. If only there were more intelligent posts like this on /lit/.

What's the point, OP? Where are you rushing? Time escapes us all, but surely you make the best of what little time you have by enjoying it fully and properly, not by rushing somewhere when you only end up getting to the same place everyone else is going, only faster?

[Insinuates gODS No.1736018]

>>1736009
Ah, escape-door #2. You just won one million dollars!

I mean one million social validations of actually still keeping your honor intact. Congratulations!

You are up for the finals next week. Stay tuned.

[Anonymous No.1736019]

>>1736001
Well judging by that post you're a stupid fag anyway

[Insinuates gODS No.1736025]

>>1736019

Your overqualified oneliner proves it beyond doubt. I'm certain that your insights will contrubute with much glory to both me personally and to this community. Thank you great sir! We are ALL grateful for your words from the elavated olympia above - once again thank you!

[Anonymous No.1736026]

>>1736025
Once again, you hath avenged triumphant from hell, you art thou main character of the world avenged triumphant glorious

-me jus jokin been sarcastic

[Anonymous No.1736033]

>>1736025
Do you have autism? Are you making your first baby steps towards being funny and sarcastic?

[Anonymous No.1736034]

I think its like riding a bike. A lot of people do it, but only some people push to go faster and become lance armstrong. Just start pushing yourself to read it faster and you'll get faster

[Insinuates gODS No.1736039]

>>1736033

so..predictable..

Is my life even still worth living?

[Anonymous No.1736046]

>>1736039
Of course it is. You're very lucky to be here. But it's best to start understanding that you aren't that clever or funny, it seems to be caused by mild autism but you do have a basic grasp of humor & irony so you aren't beyond saving, there's still hope for you.

Try and analyze why your posts aren't particularly funny, and your exhibition of language is pretty entry-level and tryhard and doesn't make you look clever.

[Anonymous No.1736069]

>>1735994
I tried this with driving but I got a ticket

[Anonymous No.1736085]

>>1736039
I've seen so many people who use "humor" like this guy. Why? It's not funny and no one ever laughs, they just look awkwardly at the guy trying to make himself sound smart.

[Anonymous No.1736100]

>>1736085
They are all autistics. All people what use humor are autistic

[Anonymous No.1736103]

>>1736085
It's subjective and I found it amusing. Maturity is for african americans such as yourself.

[Insinuates gODS No.1736124]

>1736103
>Implying i'm not samefagging myself.

[Insuate gODS No.1736128]

i'm not autistic, i have plenty of friends in fact I just finished playing black ops with the lads

[Anonymous No.1736130]

>>1736124

[Anonymous No.1736132]

fish n chips n black ops w/ teh lads

[Anonymous No.1736135]

>>1736100
hahaha bro really hit the nail on the head

by the way i was being sarcastic did u kno

[Anonymous No.1736139]

>>1736135
I suspected it, but I wasn't entirely sure.

[Anonymous No.1736142]

>>1736103
That kind of humor is just the result of a wounded and frightened little ego. Not enough courage to open itself and stand it's ground. I see people who act like that as boys who don't have the courage to look at themselves honestly. They just create a caricature in their heads of themselves, and then pretend that's what they are. And they find others who are pretending in the same way, so no one ever intervenes in their make believe.

And when you get to the bottom of these people, you find they give themselves no inherent value. They feel that they are worthless. So, they constantly try to prove their worth by showing how skilled and intelligent they are. But it's a feeble and transparent little show.

They have no humility. They've just learned to impersonate humility, and they think that is the same thing. Again, unaware of themselves, living in a fantasy.

[Anonymous No.1736140]

>>1736139
oh

[Anonymous No.1736143]

>>1736135
And they're always sarcastic! It's such a cowardly way of talking. It's how they say things without having to own their words, they can always push the eject button by saying, "I was JOKING".

[Anonymous No.1736148]

>>1736142
I don't know what you're on about, he just sounds like a kid trying too hard to clever and doesn't really know how to be ironic beyond basic sarcasm.

[Anonymous No.1736150]

>>1736148
It becomes really obvious after you've seen it enough. There is a very clear cluster of behaviors that these people perform. I've seen it over and over and have seen the cause of it. They just don't really value themselves. They're too cowardly to change.

[Insinuates gODS No.1736151]

>>1736130
>implying actually was samefagging myself.

[Anonymous No.1736152]

i've been speed reading game of thrones every time a sansa/catelyn/bran/arya chapter comes up pretty much.

[Anonymous No.1736154]

>>1736142
>They have no humility. They've just learned to impersonate humility, and they think that is the same thing. Again, unaware of themselves, living in a fantasy.

I have no interest in this debate, but these words speak to me.
It is so fascinating to realize that shy or humble people actually have the biggest egos. Their egos are so massive that they are unable to express themselves in fear of deflation.

[INSINUATES gODS No.1736155]

>>1736143
>they

>implying you've discovered something distinguishable with certain laws.

>implying you're able to discover anything at all

[Anonymous No.1736170]

>>1736142
This kind of response is the result of egocentric world view, it springs from ignorance to the differences between people, the inability to see how each of us was brought to our current state of being through the experiences we've gathered so far, affected, of course, by how we choose to review them. This, in turn, will lead to a oscillating, self-modifying loop as previous experiences change how we view the future ones – and vice versa. Simple humour is not an indifferent, inadequate or insignificant form, or way, to be enertained by. Placing yourself on a pedestal, desperately trying to view the world - and other people - from some seemingly objective, completely arbitrary stratum, does not impress any thinking person and would speak for the fact that you are, in some way, not completely through adolesce. A comprehensive reading of the previous would lead to the conclusion that my statement is, in a way, self-contradicting; as reference to uncomplete process of adolescense can be, on /lit/, regarded as an insult, if I were not to say the following:

But that's just like, your opinion, man.

[Anonymous No.1736171]

>>1736155
You're more transparent then you think.

[Anonymous No.1736176]

>>1736170
Interesting post. I am through adolescence, but I am not "mature" yet. I'm trying though. When I start criticizing someone on here, all I'm really doing is confronting myself about things I have done, or could see myself doing very easily. You pointed out that my worldview is ego-centric, and based on that post it certainly is. I do see differences in people, and making such specific claims is really just me talking to myself.

Maybe it's childish and maybe part of me still wants to impress people with my AMAZING INTELLECT. It's the only valuable thing I've seen in myself, really. But I am trying, so I appreciate your post. I don't want to tear myself and others down anymore, it's just a hard behavior to get out of.

[Anonymous No.1736178]

>>1736176
TLDR version: I thought I wanted to help people but I was just trying to help myself

[Anonymous No.1736181]

It's funny how you can dress up totally wrong, retarded psychological projections with exhibitions of vocabulary.

Both the guys in this thread doing that were guilty of it.

[Anonymous No.1736182]

>>1736176
Chill dude, it's all cool - and part of the world. I just wanted to point it out.

[Anonymous No.1736186]

>>1736181
>implying it wasn't the whole god damn point in >>1736170

[Anonymous No.1736187]

>>1736181
and your one of them, bitch

[Anonymous No.1736189]

This thread is a mind fuck

[Anonymous No.1736190]

>>1736186
I'm not talking about that, there were two guys earlier in the thread who were serious.

[Anonymous No.1736193]

>>1736187
made me laugh lol

[Anonymous No.1736196]

>>1736181
>It's funny how you can dress up totally wrong, retarded psychological projections with exhibitions of vocabulary.

Sigmund Freud in a nutshell.

[Anonymous No.1736200]

ITT: dumb ripostes

[Anonymous No.1736201]

>>1736200
mm riposte sounds like an ice cream

[INSINUATES gODS No.1736207]

This thread has turned into one of those russian wooden dolls. You think you've finally been trolled for the last time only to realize that there's a troll yet again inside even deeper. So let's pretend I mean t..

[Anonymous No.1736213]

>>1736207
good analogy i never thought of it dat way b4 maybe everyones getting trolled whats outside the universe dunno

[INSINUATES gODS No.1736224]

>>1736213

Don't you dare to insinuate gODS! The youth-corruption is alltime high bro. Poeple actually "hate" science. thanks to the religionisticals.

In fact, we would already be having free blood and plastic organs by now if it werent for the stemcell-research ban.

[Anonymous No.1736226]

there is no such thing as speed reading. it is called blagging.

[Anonymous No.1736227]

>>1736224

I don't hate science, but I'm certainly getting bored of hearing about it from teenage atheists like you.

[INSINUATES gODS No.1736236]

That's the spiriticism brother. Ramen!