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Speed Reading Exercise: Reading Passages Of Text Faster And Faster
By Alexandra MacLeod

One can improve speed reading through speed reading software that contains speed reading exercises that serve different purposes. It is a fact that most text contains many unnecessary words that may even be as high as half of all words contained in the text. Even if half the letters are removed from the text one would still be able to comprehend it and through understanding of such a simple idea one can improve speed reading skills considerably.

Mixing Of Letters Can Improve Speeds

The mind of humans reads words as Egyptian hieroglyphics and by mixing the letters it is still possible to read the text. This can be the basis for a simple speed reading exercise in which the letters are mixed and it should help improve the speed as well as allow you to read the text as groups of words. One may have to widen the eye span as well.

Basically, a person may be considered to be a poor reader if he or she sub-vocalizes words or when the text has to be re-read or the person has a fear of losing comprehension, all of which would reduce the person's reading speed and may thus necessitate their having to take speed reading exercises to get up to par. A typical speed reading exercise would have the reader start reading text at 120 words per minute and with the help of the speed reading exercise increase the rate to 240, 360, 480 and finally 600 words per minute.

The first speed reading exercise one can take will measure how much of the text one reads has been comprehended and information has been obtained from the text just read. To improve reading speed another speed reading exercise one can try will involve trying to read the tip of text that may appear on a computer screen and read the text as best as is possible. The reader has to finish reading before a counter turns to zero and after it reaches zero the reader would have to answer a question regarding the text just read.

One can increase the speed each time and check one's reading speed accordingly. There are many speed reading exercises to try out and some will test reaction times while others will test if you can locate the biggest number contained in a grid of sixteen numbers. Another useful speed reading exercise is that of testing reaction times by smashing sand castles on a beach (on the computer screen) as fast as possible. Other speed reading exercises are reading a passage of text so that reading speed may be calculated. Then, to improve speed, the passage should be read at higher rates.

Author Details:
Alexandra MacLeod is an avid reader of Scottish books so she learnt speed reading to help her digest the information more quickly so that she could move on to her next book.

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