![]() ![]() This means that eyes are physically constrained in the amount of information they achieve per fixation. They need to move around in order to get more details. ![]() Processing more information per fixation is limited by the fact that our eyes are rather poor lenses. One, the area of the eye which can correctly resolve details, called the fovea, is quite small-only about an inch in diameter at reading distance. Instead of reading a couple words in one fixation, you can process multiple lines at a time. Speed reading experts claim that they can work around this problem by taking in more visual information in each saccade. Finally, after you jump a few points, the brain has to assemble all this information so you can comprehend what you’ve just seen.Įye-movement expert Keith Raynor, argues that even going beyond 500 words per minute is improbable because the mechanical process of moving your eye, fixing it and processing the visual information can’t go much faster than that. Next, it must make a quick movement to the next fixation point, this is called a saccade. In order to read, the eye has to stop at a part of the text, this is called fixation. ![]() Claims that you can read a book as fast as you can flip through a phone book are completely impossible on anatomical and neurological levels.įirst we have anatomical reasons to throw out absurdly high reading rates. Some speed reading claims can be tossed aside immediately. Is It Possible to Read 20,000+ Words Per Minute? ![]()
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