Digitize your brain.

This is incredible. You can drastically increase your speed-reading ability by turning your brain into a computer.

Subvocalizing is the sounding out of words in your mind as you read, routing the signal through the speech center of the brain before comprehension, which limits most people's reading speed to roughly the same speed at which they would speak. This online gadget will allow you to totally bypass this with practice.

"Drop some text into it and run it. The only "problem" is that the default speed isn't really all that fast (which is probably why some people try it and "don't get it" since they can actually subvocalize that fast) so they aren't getting any benefit yet. The magic is in gradually bumping up the speed you are using and it will get you to the point where the part of your brain that subvocalizes starts "falling behind."

Now push it just a little faster and your brain will "give up" trying to subvocalize, but (probably much to your surprise) you will actually have very high comprehension of what you just read anyway. In fact, then as you push higher over time (and not that much time actually, your brain is VERY good at this once you get used to it) you'll find you have VERY high comprehension at speed that would have sounded absurd. I've honetly shocked myself at the word per mintue my brain can recognize when I'm not trying to pronounce them in my head at the same time.

Basically you are training your brain to directly connect visualized words to their known meaning without having to go through the "detour" of your brain's speech center."

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