/lit/ - Literature

>>18464935
read more

>>18464935
The general advice is to just read more, but I'm an ESL too and it doesn't work. I remember some anon here recommended a book called The Speed Reading Book by Tony Buzan. It's a pretty good book and I feel some improvement so I recommend you to read it. People here would just say "try to read more and faster" or "reading speed doesn't matter, what matters is that you're enjoying the book you're reading". Fuck off, fastreaders. You can't feel our pain.

>>18464935
have sex

>>18464935

Reading more. That's it. There simply isn't any other way unfortunately. Any and all speed reading techniques are bullshit

>>18464935
ESL here, 195 WPM. Feels bad, man.

Listen to audiobooks at high speed. This forces your brain to understand words faster.
I've noticed my Japanese reading speed increases more from listening practice than reading practice.

>>18464935
I'm in my 30's now and only getting slower.

>>18464949
>tfw you will never have a cute hegelian gf

>>18465010
I listen everything on 2x or 2.5x speed, it's not helping, my problem is reading speed, I guess I'm too retarded or smth

Read more and expand your vocabulary. Write down words that are new to you and their definitions so that they are better imprinted in your memory

>>18464949
>PoS
It's just too much. I can't suspend my disbelief viewing this image.

just took the test on medium and got 272 WPM

However, my problem is I often cant concentrate on the book in my hands, often taking an hour to read merely 10 pages.

>>18464935
300 wpm, and I'm an ESL. I imagine I could read faster if I just wanted to get the gist of it. I re-read some sentences there, too. How the fuck are you reading at 150 wpm?

>>18464935
if you like to read why do you care about speed? being a slow reader just means you get to read for longer

>>18464935
A few things that have helped me speed up (am not ESL though):
* read paper not digital
* use a physical pointer that I move accross a line (I use a pencil)
* move the pointer slightly faster than you think you can handle / subvocalize
* dont stop if you don't immediately understand / don't know a word

That site's test is weird, I read the medium faster (by about 100 wpm) than hard but found it much harder to comprehend, too much description for me...

>>18466101
The lower your reading speed, the longer you can read for. Therefore, you should push you reading speed as near zero as possible, to obtain arbitrarily long reading times.

>>18466101
Because you'll read fewer books in your lifetime, idiot.

Why do u wanna read faster? Maybe you wont understand that much

>>18466042
Yea, the thing is you have to actually read the text, you fucking nigger, not just skim through it
B-b-b-but I'VE READ IT, I SWEAR
No, you didn't stfu you stupid fucking negroid scum

>>18466429
I specifically said I didn't skim it. What would I have to gain from lying on an anonymous website? You don't have to believe me, but this anon wasn't far off:
>>18465832
so I'm not sure what you find so incredible.

>>18466445
>What would I have to gain from lying on an anonymous website?
Anon, I ...

>>18464935
>says you can read 1984 in 6 hours
???

>Reading speed to 250 words per minute
>I’m 20
>Go to my countries top uni

I’m NGMI am I.

>>18464935
I'm literally unstoppable

I tried the hard test and got 200 wpm. When reading I usually stop and reread interesting passages and try to be slower rather than faster.
I also don't silent read (without pronouncing words in my head), which further slows me down, since it's important to hear how the text sounds.
To you, OP, I have one advice. Be thorough, not fast.
You should only read fast when the text flows effotlessly and mostly that happens in the more modern (pulp)fiction.

>>18464983
Speed-reading tricks are sham. They may indeed make you read faster but it's going to impact your comprehension. The reason a person is slow is perhaps because he's slow at comprehension. Just go at your usual pace, the pace you feel comfortable and enjoyable. What's the need to hurry?

>>18464935
Reading speed is pure protestant work ethic CRINGE. It is better to know 100 books deeply than have a fling with 10,000.
You read as fast as you need to, and it increases through reading anyway.

>>18464935
go outside
touch grass
have sex
etc etc

just read the hard one at 400 wpm, speed reading and good comprehension do not correlate well. unless, of course, you're VERY good at doing both, and not everyone can be and that's perfectly fine you insecure bitch.

Do you guys have an internal monologue when reading, or is it visual, or even silent?

>>18470960
Sadly yes and I also imagine the things I read in my head

>>18471239
Sadly yes? Just as you've trained to have it, could it be removed through training. But would that be a good thing?

>>18470960
Mi inner voice screams at me

>>18471239
>Sadly yes and I also imagine the things I read in my head
Is this bad for some reason now?