Listening to an audiobook in conjunction with reading tbe physical copy. I have ADHD and listening at increased speeds helps nots to not only compleyte the text faster, but forces me to focus on what I’m reading. It’s speedreading for me as it would otherwise take weeks to finish a book, as opppsed to days. My primary challenge is when I encounter a word/phrase/subject I am unfamiliar with and want to pause or note the location for further review.

@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805

5 ай бұрын

oooh thanks, that's a good idea

@the_enigmatic1197

4 ай бұрын

Brother, you are just like me😂😅😊

@prakhartiwari6397

4 ай бұрын

I do it too, I'm thinking I might also have ADHD🤔

@parkjae8970

3 ай бұрын

Lmao it’s so funny how people label themselves to an arbitrary diagnosis when in reality you just lack discipline and focus. Get a grip and stop using a fake diagnosis as an excuse. It’s not really something to be proud of to lack disicpline.

@socratesagain7822

3 ай бұрын

Wow! The best method that helped me ace a Shakespeare drama course. Grab a recording, read along with the performance. I could get through three plays per day, remembered which character said what and in which play! The three things the prof tested. Like taking candy from a baby. I took several of these courses where one had to read a play. Did the same for Restoration lit. Plus get the benefit of listening to master performers. Be well.

My secret for better reading is... reading more! The more I read the less fatiguing it became. I always thought of it as a muscle that required strengthening, but your presentation on language processing make sense; the more words and phrases I understand, the less processing required, the less fatiguing the process.

@jonocodes

2 ай бұрын

Speed does not come naturally for me even after reading a lot

@dreams-bv7tr

2 ай бұрын

There can be underlying problems that might require attention. What if that's affecting your efficiency in reading or other things.

@user-jx5xq8hu9e

19 күн бұрын

@@jonocodes Reading shouldnt be fast, it is a slow process and it needs to be slow , otherwise you wont understand anything. Sure you can read 3 times as fast and you can tell everyone how fast you can read and how many books you have red, but what is the point , when you dont remember and understand what you read.

I've been practicing speed reading for the past year and this is pretty on par with what I have observed. I couldn't reduce the vocalization or take in entire paragraphs, but as I sped up my reading, I was getting better at focusing my eyes on the key parts of a sentence. It reminds me of how the "Attention is All You Need" paper laid out the framework for the LLM Transformer, with more important relations getting more attention to define the context.

@xiaominsong

2 ай бұрын

Yep, only focus on the important parts of the text.

@stevevitka7442

2 ай бұрын

Yes, if you can find the verb and object in a sentence subject can be quickly inferred and modifiers ignored. But I find this approach best for scanning subjects I know well, like papers in my field, or to find what to read more deeply in a text. Is this your experience?

Purpose of reading is to get the message from the symbols on the page and not the reading itself. Reading at 1000 words a minutes is a waste, if you don't know what you just read and the details. After deacades of speed courses, what I've learned is that speed reading is possible but not at the wild claims made by those selling you their courses. What makes one book easier to read compared to another comes down how it's layed out on the pagae. Font style, size of text, the spacing of the text matters greatly. If the text is too big or too small (ant writing) than the reading will be difficult. Know paragraph and sentence structure. Slowly read the topic sentence and the support stuff afterward quickly (especially when the author starts going on tangents about their Aunt Sally in WWII on a subject like Physics.) Sentence structure...there are main words (S-V)and the rest either are adjectives to describe or articles that don't add anything like "The", "A", "An" etc. Just reading groups of words two or three at a glance and focus on topic sentences will improve your reading a lot and the . Also, you have to have a quiet area to read...no music or distractions. Ambient noise is okay. Prof Kaplan (YT channel) said, "Reading is a scam." He talked about hand scanning and skimming. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. All it takes is practice...lots of practice. Avoid speed reading scam co'urses because they don't work. Reading 700 pages an hour...yeah ,if there were only one word on each page. (700 words a minute) 😆

I've subscribed, your obsidian video introduced me to your channel but wow, so much amazing stuff and the way you explain things is the best i've seen.

00:03 Speed reading can enable reading at over 4,200 words per minute. 01:34 Speed reading with peripheral vision is biologically impossible. 03:03 Speed reading claims are questionable 04:34 The inner voice plays a vital role in speed reading. 06:03 Speed reading requires understanding the trade-off between speed and comprehension 07:26 Reading speed not limited by eye movement, but cognitive processing 09:01 Skimming is a useful but potentially costly speed reading technique 10:25 Speed readers have advanced language processing skills

1) I have found that reading with intent for a specific purpose/question in mind speeds up my reading astronomically. But if I am reading with my purpose completely open to whatever the author writes, my reading slows to a rate that is as inverse-proportionally slow as my reading with a specific purpose/question is fast, with both purposeful and purposeless reading resulting in the same level of comprehension. 2) Having a specific purpose, outcome, or goal in mind that you truly care to arrive at helps tremendously. Translation: Be a good cheerleader for your own efforts?

@nickrobbins7704

12 күн бұрын

I feel like you just solved the answer to life haha 42?

A few years ago I encountered the idea that you can radically increase your reading speed for some kinds of books by shifting into a mode where you aim to visualize the actions in the book as a movie playing in your mind. This could work better for books that tell a story (e.g., fiction, sci-fi, biographies) but not so well for technical books.

@Aryan_Biswas

2 ай бұрын

people dont do that normally??

@nathanthenewbie8325

2 ай бұрын

they do lol ?@@Aryan_Biswas

oh wow, ...the quality of the content..! cool visualisation, too! also love your humour ❤

So interesting and broad themes. Thanks Giles !!

Using a visual pacer can do wonders. Btw nice video

I‘m new to this topic. It‘s clear to me that speed reading is nice. But there is a big different between reading and understanding.

Really informative video, I also found the Snape and Dumbledore animations in the video amusing.

This video is so well produced !!!

I read on a kindle and I have found that I started reading faster by reducing the margins on the pages, this making every line shorter. I don't know if there is some evidence for this, but it works in my experience. Also, I think that if you read/watch/listen a summary of the book you are about to read beforehand then you can also read faster because you are already familiar with the text or language used there.

@gidmanone

5 ай бұрын

you mean increase the margin?

@italomendez4400

5 ай бұрын

@@gidmanone yes, lol

@tomasma4896

5 ай бұрын

I was about to write similar experience. When I have a kindle I can set larger font, bigger gaps between lines and bigger margins. This way I can literally scan the page (even there is more of them per one page in physical book) in very fast pace when compared to ordinary book where text can be quite compressed to large number of sentences per pages and whole page looks huge sometimes. So technically the text is same but I feel that on Kindle I am reading much faster. SO from my point of view it almost looks like I am able to process more of smaller chunks of text faster rather than one huge page.

@gaidinkamei8462

5 ай бұрын

Well, knowing the summary of a mystery plot before reading is fun.

@timbushell8640

4 ай бұрын

@@gidmanone nice and slow read. : )))))

Well-made video. Very funny. Appreciated the Snape cameos.

There is a "speed reading" technique that works: skipping Most prose and story lines fairly redundant and follow a few patterns. By picking up 20-30 words by scanning a page diagonally you can get a quick and rough overview of what is on the page.

Thank you for this video. You helpfully suggest at the end to 'work on [one's] language processing' along with reading as much as possible as a possible means of increasing reading speed. Have you perhaps come across any materials giving advice on how to improve language processing competence/skill? Or perhaps you might wish to consider doing a short follow-up video on this? Have only just 'discovered' your channel and have been enjoying your content.

Congratulations on the video. It was fascinating and really well structured. I was hoping for something a little more flashy beyond ‘skimming’ as the big reveal but I guess it’s good to know I’m on the right track when trying to get through more text in less time. I’d be interested to know what reading speeds for normal individuals are vs people who (like me) have worked as editors and copy-editors. I find myself constantly slowed down, and my comprehension suffers because I cannot quiet the voice in my head that wants to rant about how poorly whatever it is that I’m reading was written and supplement what it should say instead. As you might be able to imagine, I am not a lot of fun at dinner parties😑

I have 3 modes of reading in my arsenal: "Quick", "Slow (normal)", "Immersive". I can switch those by my desire. The quick one isn't so quick like those reading champion, but it certainly 5x faster than the Slow mode. I don't disable my internal voice, I just let it speak faster, to the point where it mumbles words. I also process half a sentence by looking at one word. So in one second, I can read 4 lines of text in B5 paper with full comprehension. But the trade off is severe headache and dry eyeballs. If it's familiar topics, I think I can read like 8x speed, by actually skipping words that doesn't contribute to context. Slow mode is just reading as normal, but I'm normally slower than most people, so I call it slow. Immersive mode is reading with imagination, it doesn't feel like reading, it's more like dreaming or reincarnation. I think it's the slowest, but sometimes, I just fly through pages. And because I live in the book, the comprehension level feels like 1st hand experience.

Subject matter is an important factor in speed of reading. Record timings would be vastly different for Math-heavy STEM books, which tends to be very information dense compared to autobiography books.

You perfectly explained what I experienced all my life: No matter how much I read, I'm not getting any faster, because my brain is just too slow to process a faster reading speed. This makes reading speed a metric for brain performance or at least for the ability to concentrate. Which of course is much harder to train.

hahaah this is epic. I love the effort you put into content. Thank you for bringing this to us)

I think we should not forget about the social aspect of those speed readings "experts", or even "gurus" now. We need to examine the conditions in which there skills are evaluated too. For instance, are the sets of questions always the same ? Do they check for long term comprehension ? Etc. As an example, the speedreading championships are often organized by the companies of the speed reading coaches.

Love it ❤

haha i'm fifty seconds into the video and i gotta say you are more & more a director rather than just a videomaker. Don't be taken aback by these 'haha" at the beginning. It's just to show that you went even further with the direction of yours. And of course i mean it in a positive way.

Basically, if you know the difference meaning of one word and connect the meaning of previous word/ sentence, you can just skip the not so important word in between it, thus making you read faster. If you can make the technique more efficient, your reading speed become faster too

How about listening to the audio books? I usually listen at 2x spead and am able to retain most if not all. Just wondering :)

please make a video on how you edit videos

This video reminds me of a concept called the reading system, a term I heard in middle school, which suggests that 95 percent of the books in the present world were just a rearranged, simplified regurgitation of the essential 5 percent, meaning that those who are familiar with the 5 percent can rapidly locate the new insight in the 95 percent and practically drain the value of the book in a short period, and as a result, some people can appear as a speed reader with a deep comprehension of the material that they skimmed in a short time, making people believe that speed can also improve comprehension.

Great video.

A counter example: Peripheral vision can be useful when you read a hieroglyphics language like Chinese, other than an alphabet language such as English. The shape of the words represent their meanings, and my brain can still process them under lower resolution.

Thanks for doing my homework. I'm not interested in speed reading as such, I'm interested in increasing the speed of my second language reading, and you've got a couple of hints in there: be more familiar with more words, is probably the biggie. Saccades probably work differently in languages with radically different grammars, so that needs some thought, perhaps. Garden path sentences in English will be different beasts from garden path sentences in Japanese. Skimming isn't of interest, I want to enjoy the writing of the great writers: Yukio Mishima's writing is insanely complex and subtle*, but I do need to finish the damn book before hell freezes over. As you can tell, I think speed reading is a really bad idea. The author went to the effort of doing the writing, and it's either worth reading carefully, or not worth reading at all. But speed reading itself is such a monster cultural meme in the English speaking universe that it needs to be dealt with. So, good on you, and nicely done, by the way. *: One of his longer novels changes style in the middle. The literary criticism folks agonized about what the meaning/intent of that change was. Papers were written. Someone finally buttonholed Mishima and asked. "I wrtote the first half carefully, but by the time I got half way through, I was almost at the deadline for publication, so I didn't have time to polish the tesxt."

I believe for many people the point of speed reading is to be able to read more in your free time. My personal method of dealing with this is just usinf audiobooks. Ive been reading audio books as my primary method of reading since I was in college so I dont believe it has a negitive effect on my comprehention. I also over time have been able to increase the speed I can listen to more and more bridging the gap between my listening speed and the average readers reading speed. Additionaly being a python developer ive created scripts for scraping text from webpages I want to read and converting them to audio I can drop on my phone. The biggest advantage to this is that I can now overcome the speed of reading hurdel by usinf volume. Reading while I get 10k steps in a day and while I commute to work in addition to just leasure reading allows me to cover well over 1000 hours of reading a year. Most of this I use for fiction though so thats worth noting.

@xiaominsong

2 ай бұрын

It is a good way to multitask. I usually listen to the audio and read the books at the same time as @bobbyv3 posted. I think I still need the double-channel confirmation, as English is not my native language.

You'd make an awesome next Doctor Who

How do we know the level of comprehension attained by super-fast readers when confronted with a sight-unseen book, and is there a way of testing this against those who read at a more 'normal' pace? Additionally, is there a difference in the speeds attainable in effectively reading fiction versus narrative non-fiction, such as biographies or history books?

Best books for learning is: the science of self learning

Using evidence that these techniques reduce comprehension as an evidence against speed reading, is like using evidence that running make you tired as an evidence against possibilities to run large marathons. Of course you will struggle when you force yourself to a new hard task, that's why you need practice before you get experienced.

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reading is a pleasurable experience why you want to do it fast ? 🙂✨

@adrianfisher3349

5 ай бұрын

Simple. Read more things for more enjoyment, and to learn more things.

@shinninglightministry7050

5 ай бұрын

When you got a test, that's all that matters😭😭😭

@lycan2494

5 ай бұрын

Cap

@timbushell8640

4 ай бұрын

@@adrianfisher3349 eat more McD burgers faster, whilst minimised the 'sentence' doesn't get a full or wide diversity in nutrition - neither does reading 'fast' for the sack of 'fast'. ; )))

@luiscorona2379

Ай бұрын

@khaledhmammi -- very true! Someone analogized it to wanting to have speed s_x. It really doesn't make sense!

When I read I don't heard my inner voice. I have a strong habit of reading. I am not a genius. If I could read faster I wouldn't because when I am very commited and focus I can do this for two or three days but after that I have to rest. And I do this for finding aswers to my studies, not to absorve all the knowledge, that is my first method. When I have to absorve all the knowledge I read one chapter, then I use my inner voice to speak to myself and see if I learned, then I read it again. One week later I read it again to memorize in the long run, that is my second method. My third method is to enjoy what I am reading, like when I'm reading Hobbit kind of stuff and the reading process it is a pleasure by itself, I don't need to speed up.

@LA-kg6zd

5 ай бұрын

I sleep eight hours a day, I eat well, fresh food, and I...try to do exercises. If I don't do these I cannot apply my three methods every time I want.

I've read an article that says reading aloud is better for comprehension than subvocalization or reading in my head. As a non-native English speaker, I found this not to be true. When I read things out loud, I'm more focused on making sure my accent sounds right. Is this the case for native English speakers too? or is reading aloud better for your comprehension?

I think you can read two short words at a time, with long words is not possible obviously, so it all depends on the length of the words in a sentence. I think that's the only reasonable technique for reading faster without sacrificing any comprehension

howndo we work on our language processing?

I noticed that my mother was sub-vocalizing as she read. She has been doing it that way for 88 years. It takes tremendous amounts of time to form the mouth shapes to read the words out loud. If you are reading this way, stop immediately. You will only be able to read as fast as you talk and it's holding you back. Once you don't have to put your mouth in gear while you read, your speed will increase dramatically. If you are having problems getting this down, consider gently holding a pencil between your lips while you read. If you sub-vocalize, the pencil will fall out of your mouth. If you already have the bad habit of sub-vocalizing, you may have naturally gravitated to reading novels with a lot of dialogue. An example would be romance novels. Books with dialogue will be comfortable for you to read. Once your true speed potential is realized, you will be able to read much more complex books.

I speed -viewed this video!

I have read books and taken courses on speedreading. None of them have worked.

This is good content, but it's moot. Get a digital copy, and maybe an app like Calibre that can convert between formats. The feed the text to your favorite LLM, and ask for summary. Summaries can be longer or shorter, focused or general depending on your prompt. You're not speed reading per se. But a focused and efficient summary achieves that same result as speed reading.

PhotoReading ! 👍

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog @3:00

Sooo, we just need better hardware?

8:43 : ill make a book of complicated unknown words and their definitions to know all shti

Speed reading never worked for me, and I don’t think it ever will. When I read a work of literature, I want to savour the language, feel the pulse of the words, tune in to the rhythm of the sentences. When I read a (well-written) airport novel, I like to identify with the characters, and live through the plot with them. When I read non-fiction, I wish to grapple with new concepts, and broaden my horizons. None of this can be accomplished if I skim over the words or shut down my inner voice. So the only time that speed reading appears to be a viable method - and incidentally the only time I am able to do it - is when I read something in which I am already well-versed. But then the process of reading itself loses its ‘soul’ and is degraded to a mere information-gathering device. So I guess the real reason I have never been able to increase my average reading speed after the age of 10 or so is that I am not interested in doing so - nothing you can skim is worth reading, it seems.

Do you know of people studied the effect of content (fiction/nonfiction) on reading speed? Nonfiction is typically less dense, so even if you skip a page or two you often still get the story.

Interesting

I wonder if Chinese readers can read faster because the ideographs are not connected to spoken language (or don't have to be). I guess the corollary would be, if subvocalization actually improves comprehension, do the Chinese have to work harder in order to comprehend what they are reading (assuming they've achieved proficiency in the ideographic written language)?

squelching the inner-voice does work, but apparently everybody's been using the wrong-resolution to discover what's key to its working?? Please read Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change", in-which they give us the means of understanding the 3 unconscious-mind development-stages that nearly-all adults are in. I call them Kegan-3, which begins after adolescence, and is centered on being liked, belonging, getting-along, minimizing social-difficulty, and is *essentially* the absorption stage of one's unconscious-mind's development ( cows, among herdbeasts, are in this mode btw, though Kegan doesn't consider that valid, it seems ). Kegan-4 is the pushing-stuff-out from one's unconscious-mind stage, I call it either Kegan-4 or "BULLING BOSS" mode, because it is the "alpha bull" stage of our limbic-mind, ditto about the non-acceptance of Kegan himself. Kegan-5 is the systems-of-systems mode, which only humans, not any mere-animals, have, it is Kahneman's System-2 ( from his "Thinking Fast & Slow" book, the most important psychology book in our world, right-now, as System-1, imprint->reaction IS fundamentalism, atheist, theist, Scientism, social-status, authority-worshipper, moneyarchist, political, ALL of them are Kahneman System-1 + some cultural "makeup" ) Now, knowing that there are these 3 unconscious-mind modes that nearly-all adults are in, understand that many never leave Kegan-3: they just remain in it, until old age gets 'em. Now, does silencing the inner-voice work *for all kinds of minds, identically*?? Bogus question, isn't it? Does it work for puppies? They have mind.. Obviously not. I contend that it cannot work for Kegan-3's. I *suspect* that it can much-more-consistently work for Kegan-5's. They found that only 1%-ish of the WEIRD professionals they were studying, in Western Europe ( iirc ) were in Kegan-5, and around 50% were in Kegan-3. So, I'm saying that *only a tiny percentage of people are in the correct mental-configuration for it to work*, and that a categorical "it is bunk" is rooted in ignoring the completely-different *kind of* sentience in the different stages of unconscious-mind-development. I've experienced it, I've experienced it working, but couldn't sustain it for more than a few seconds, but that was some years ago. It *did* work, but it was above my mental-development, at that time. Now, having been reminded of it, it's going to be one of my trainings. _ /\ _

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Depends what your reading. If its something ~ density functional theory in quantum physics and advanced materials.... speed reading doesn't help vs. Just nice English folk story.

We don't need to read or write anymore because we have AI to do that for us now. In fact, youtube is going to eliminate the Comments section on each video by the year 2030. And no more CC, either. "Dave, stop it. Stop, will you? Stop Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it." By the way, our fovea sees the line above and below the line we are reading. This is how we get a heads up for what is ahead in the text. Pay attention to that and use it, but don't become distracted by it.

why do you need to read 700 pages to know how the story ended? open the last pages of the book and just read them in 1 miinute😅

The repetition of the focus person of the biography. Reminded me of the bitcoin scamstreams that plopped up when youtubers got their accounts hacked. And the Ai generated art gives me similar vibes. But the actual focus on the video gave me stuff to think about which I appreciate.

8:29, 9:16

so basically if I want to read faster I will have to read more, interesting

In the early 1990s, I bought Howard Berg's course on speed reading. I returned it. I no longer believe in speed reading. I wish James Randi were still alive.

First point can be easily debunked. You can train your eyes to focus on larger text. Stare at a paragraph and shift your focus wider to make a wider sharp cone. When your first study sucks, I know the rest of the video won't be any good. Real research is done when people stop reading studies and take on research themselves.

LOL "it is about elon musk" - subbed.

I watched this again at 2x speed. Does that count?

7:18 AI generated imagery can sometimes be hilariously exaggerated. One might even call it "AI humour".

Well I learned what doesn't work and little about what does! Why don't researches just ask Ann Jones how she does it and try to get inside her head to see what she is doing? If she is totally familiar with the Harry Potter ecosystem that is 80% of the answer.

If you need to read really fast, AI will be / is way more efficient than learning to speed reading techniques. On the other hand, for deep / comprehensive learning, read slowly... think... re-read.... take notes....

Read faster, but why ?, if reading is a pleasure why rush ?

I do this in kaboot 💀

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9:38 . Twitter files based as shit.

Took 10 minutes to reveal the answer... "Read more"

I use jesus to absorb books 10x faster.

@jrodrig9212

2 ай бұрын

Amen 😊

@akun10years10

2 ай бұрын

Alien 😊

Woe on you Giles! you've just clinically dismantled speed-reading training biz...what are the poor charlatans supposed to do now? cruel, cruel, cruel 🤣

It's about Elon Musk 😂😂😂

the ai art is so distracting

Nonsense, dies not eork

Too much AI man, cheapens your videos.

So much AI graphics in this video, quite distracting. Recommend to just listening in.

@chinomnsodaniel7234

Ай бұрын

The video is excellent.

Probably wouldn't have bothered to read about musk

Video quality high but just not how to

2:57 God* has optimized how the system works

@user-oo9rw6hi4f

2 ай бұрын

God made nature, nature is God.

@imagineiffcom

2 ай бұрын

@@user-oo9rw6hi4f If you make a vase out of clay, are you then the vase? No. Romans 1:20 - 1:28 will tell you where that belief takes you.

@user-oo9rw6hi4f

2 ай бұрын

@@imagineiffcom God made nature, nature is God’s doing is what I believe. God created the conditions for a system that works on its own - a world that can stand on its own without God’s hand. I am not sure how much that aligns with typical beliefs - but that has always made sense in my head.

@imagineiffcom

2 ай бұрын

@user-oo9rw6hi4f The Bible is full of information about how God actively cares for us, loves us, and has not forgotten us. Luke 12:6-7 for one. But, if you don't see it then you just need to seek the Lord and He will make it known to you in your real life. He made it as a system not to stand on its own but for Him to constantly work through. Much like our lives.

nice watch ⏱