Jim Kwik explains how your eyes pause on each word when reading, slowing you down. Use a visual pacer or expand your peripheral vision to take in multiple words at once, potentially doubling your reading speed without extra training.
using a visual pacer can increase reading speed by 25, 50%. Some people will actually 100% increase even without any additional training. It's simple, it's free, and it just works. Try it for yourself. You could challenge yourself to expand your eye span, what they call your peripheral vision. If you want to become a faster, more effective reader, You want to upgrade and retrain how your eyes move across the page so you can take in more information. The number of words your eyes can take in during each fixation. Fixation is like an eye stop. It's like you're going, going, and you stop. But most people, let's say there's 10 words per line. They hit one fixation on the first word, then they jump to another and another. They have 10 fixations. Stop, start, stop, start. As opposed to what if you could look at one word and relax your eyes and see the word to the left and to the right, then you're catching 3 words with 1 fixation. So it only takes you maybe 2 or 3 stops to get across the page. Way more efficient.
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