/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17903743]

Reading speed is underrated and overlooked in this board.
Why does /lit/ believe you'll not comprehend if you don't you read faster? Most of us are reading prose not poems.

[Anonymous No.17903744]

>>17903743
if you read faster*

[Anonymous No.17903751]

>read so fast he didn't even notice the error before posting

[Anonymous No.17903757]

>>17903751
Many such cases with the pseuds

[Anonymous No.17903760]

>>17903751
but I write by typing, not reading

[Anonymous No.17903887]

>>17903743
You should always read in the pace of the writing. Speedreading a solemn passage will kill it equally as snoozing through a fast-paced passage.

[Anonymous No.17904973]

How fast do you guys read? My rate is super bad and it always takes me forever to finish books despite reading quite often. Depending on the text 150-250wpm. How do I improve?

[Anonymous No.17904988]

>>17903751
OP btfo

[Anonymous No.17904989]

>>17904973
This is going to sound retarded, but the answer is just read faster. Actively read faster. Train your eyes to read faster. Take any book and set a timer for 15 minutes. Move your eyes along the page slightly faster than you can actually read and understand it, making use of the Z patter our eyes move it. two or three jumps then next line. When you finish this for 15 minutes, go back and read intently at a speed you can understand in your mind, but be aware that your brain will want you to stop reading actively and will revert back to it's 'comfortable' speed. This 'active' skill of reading as fast as your eyes and mind can take it will increase your reading speed. I also suggest listening to audio books at increasingly faster speeds. Right now I listen to audio books at 2.5 to 3.0 speeds, depending on the narrator. This will train your sub vocalization to speak faster. The goal isn't to get rid of the sub vocalization, but to make it go as fast as your brain and eyes can allow it. We all can listen to much more than the average speaking voice of 150 wpm. Also take breaks. Every section or chapter you have finished, pause and reflect on what you just read. This will increase memory retention.

[Anonymous No.17905002]

I type 180 WPM, but read 150 WPM.

[rapture1 No.17905017]

>>17903743
>>17904973

Jesus Christ what pleb nonsense
Reading speed, word count, IQ, penis size—all are just such obvious false, quantifiable idols for people who don’t actually read—or if they do read, they don’t do so with any purpose or passion

Reminder that you cover the most ground when you approach a topic because you desire to know it.
Reminder that taking your time with a worthwhile text/book is always valuable.
Reminder that the only metric worth acknowledge viz. your effort is whether you walk away from a text satisfied, enlightened, better than you were beforehand.

These threads just prove why there is such a disconnect between real academic, rigorous thought and....whatever it is this board is choking off as its latest bullshit standard.

[Anonymous No.17905025]

>>17905017
How many pages did you do today?

[Anonymous No.17905041]

>>17904989
Thanks anon, that sounds worth trying out.

[rapture1 No.17905053]

>>17905025
Wtf kinda idiot mindset do you possess? Why the fuck do you even go to ask such a silly and useless question?
Were I to say: I’ve read hundreds today already.
Were I to say: I’ve read 5 pages only.
Were I to say: I’ve read none so far.
Tell me what you gather from the quality of my reading—and more importantly, the quality of my reading against the quality of my life?

Holy fucking shit your brain is so scrambled. You can really only ask these questions of quantity? You don’t see the problem, the deficit? You saw what i wrote above and thought to yourself: “hey, probably should ask him how many pages”?

[Anonymous No.17905439]

>>17905053
He just asked how many pages did you read today, chill.

[Anonymous No.17905465]

>>17905053

[Anonymous No.17906232]

>>17903760
haha you really got BTFO i'm sorry to say

[Anonymous No.17906251]

>>17905025
I READ 5000 PAGES TODAY NO CAP

[Anonymous No.17906260]

>>17906251
>>17903743
>>17903743

wrong picture xD

[Anonymous No.17906270]

It's interesting that the same people who gatekeep particular authors or ideas are the same ones that hold new anons hands and tell them reading speed doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.17906354]

>>17906270
I do that. I also encourage retsrds.
Good post.