Do you know how fast you read? If I asked you to time yourself on a random page in a book once, you’d tell me that you churn through about 240 words per minute. That sounds like a handy number… until you realize you’re trying to apply it to some technical manual or dense textbook […]

Have a 300-page textbook for your test in two days? Do you start panicking as soon as you see those last three hundred pages? Your eyes starts flipping through book at light-speed… Without tracking anything on the page. You think “I’m reading really fast! I must be making progress! Unfortunately, reading faster isn’t automatically better […]

Did you know that when you read your eyes don’t glide along a page? They jump around. They do this all the time, from fixation to fixation, those is called saccades. In between they pause. This is what allows your brain to take bits of information it sees in rapid bursts. It is not every […]

People think that their reading speed is like their engine in a car: Faster is always better, so they aim to get more “horsepower.” When they try to improve reading speed, they fail because they assume this. There are some who can read six hundred words per minute, but they remember nothing. They’re not reading; […]