How I Doubled My Reading Speed in 24 Hours

I did not expect to get THAT fast THAT quickly!

What skill should I learn next?

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[JustWojtek]

I think this is the most honest and helpful video I've seen on speed reading yet

[BillyWright-xgig]

it’s kinda crazy how nobody’s talking about Antozent, they are selling 250 self help books for the price of one

[Boomshakalaka]

You likely won’t see this, but I just wanted to say you are a very inspiring creator. Your passion in learning new (and often useful) skills is very respectable and something I wish to replicate in my future (if I can find time in my busy schedule 😂). But thank you for making such enjoyable and inspiring content.

[aran.r]

you have such a unique way of making videos i was surprised that the video is actually 10 minutes !! I couldn’t get bored along the whole video. ✨
thank you for the tips they really gonna help me this upcoming winter

[Dogo.R]

Speed reading is like speed typing or speed talking. It limits you only up to the point were your comprehention/generation speed walls you.

Technically the solution to hit your comprehention/generation limit as easily as possible with the least downsides is to write in dense ways, or read dense things.
Dense in the sense that there is very little fluff.
For example languages that are litterally shorter yet convey the same meaning. English is one of the best for this.

Another example is there are programing languages that have purposely created "grammer" that is very dense with information.

And for writing you can develop an ideolect with words or symbols that you yourself define as meaning certain common things. This is why terminology specific to types of things gets created. Like engineering specific slang, or gamer specific slang. These are words created to "densify" meaning. And you can do so yourself with your own writing and speech and its called your "ideolect".

For reading you can look for dense technical summaries of books. Or look for books were in the preview you can see the writer writes with dense wording.

All these examples allow for your comprehention/generation speed to be the limiter.
And as for speeding that up it isnt so simple. Its mostly a matter of familizing yourself with more abstractions... since your base speed is in many ways fixed and the abstractions you are familiar with are the tools that multiply your base speed. Creating a good ideolect or learning new actually useful words is good (so not learning "portcullus" instead of "castle gate" since you will have to put an insane amount of effort to make portcullus easier for your mind to work with than castle gate... and even then if that effort went into castle gate you would be faster at comprehending things that involved castles or gates that werent castle gate, vs portcullus which is very neiche).
Learning fallacies and common statistical techniciques are more examples of abstraction tools you can familiarize yourself with to increase the multiplier to your mind's base speed.

[umeanumair]

Such an amazing storytelling and video editing. Worth the time to go through your videos.

[Zavstar]

Thanks for these tips will come handy in many of the exams which involve fast comprehension skills

[Petch]

Well I guess I will give it a try. Right now my comfortable reading speed is 0 words per minut. If I could get that op to 300 words per minut that would make a huge change.
As it is now I always go for 100% comprehension, cause I am not going to read the same book two time.

[EpicAviation]

This made me subscribe. All these videos inspire me and are so cool. Keep it up!

[Lightseeker_]

That one unemployed friend on a Tuesday

[SevinchMahmadaliyeva]

Thanks a lot for these valuable tips. I love reading but it seems that I read in the wrong way. Thanks to You Tube videos I am learning how to read properly and fast 😊

[xtieburn]

I remember looking in to the actual research about this a while back and the science seemed fairly clear: Theres no such thing as speed reading...Okay, Ill clarify that a bit.
If you are unpracticed at reading then you will speed up as you get more comfortable, much of that is what you see in this video. In the long term you will see modest improvements as you learn a greater vocabulary and a bunch of language structure etc, but once youve found your level there is no evidence that any individual can utilise any trick or technique that will _dramatically_ increase their pace while still retaining anywhere near a complete understanding of the text.

Carroll could test this more thoroughly himself,
-Give it a few months of regular reading then do your test on speed and comprehension. That is your baseline.
-Try on all these tricks and such that supposedly dramatically improve the pace.
-Repeat the test to see if you can obtain a higher speed with the same level of comprehension.
Perhaps he will be an outlier but the science suggests he will see little improvement.

A more realistic skill is to learn how to skim through texts, locate relevant words, headings, etc, and focus down information. This can give the impression of speed reading, but is no such thing, you are just rapidly finding the relevant sections you will then read at a more or less typical speed before piecing it all together. These kinds of methods of using the trade offs between speed and comprehension have a lot of practical usage, but as far as all the evidence is concerned you will never achieve both.

That all said, reading is good for the brain, just committing to a minimum of a chapter or 10, 20 pages a day can help. Youd be surprised at how many books you start to consume with a steady bog standard pace. (It personally also helped a great deal getting an e-reader as all the books are right there. No need to buy them in, look through my shelves etc, my entire library is right in my hand, just pick and go. Not to mention you have instant access to thousands of classics in the public domain.)

[JC-esun]

You should look into “photo reading”, it was developed in the 1980’s by a psychologist and it’s ridiculously awesome. It combines the subconscious and conscious aspects of mind. In studies, people have read up to 65, 000 words per minute and when tested they had 74% comprehension. It’s used a lot by doctors and lawyers, and there is a ton of scientific studies backing it up. I used it recently with a book on wild edible plants and in about 5 days I learned 50 plants (how to identify them, use them, and tell them apart from poisonous look a likes). I really can’t recommend photo reading enough, it’s life changing. 👍

[nightfall]

This guy is my inspiration. I’ve learned so many skills from watching him.

[EduardoHenrique-ndro]

Another outstanding video, Tommo! Thanks so much for sharing!
Cheers from Brazil!

[LeahandLevi]

Dude you're genuinely one of the most underrated editors/creators on this platform

[airs]

I struggle with reading so much. I can manage work stuff but reading a book is so difficult for me. ADHD mind can’t cope.

[GhostGecko]

As an already fast reader, Im curious to see if I can reach super speed with this

[TristanSharman]

Awesome video, insane how much of an improvement you made! Have some brownie points ;)

[AllTowardsAllah]

Thank you so much I'm definitely giving it a try.