On August 20, 2009
How to Triple Your Reading Speed in 20 Minutes
Yep, you read that right: triple your reading speed. In 20 minutes. And am I also selling a bridge, you may ask? Not so fast, my doubting friends. I’m actually riffing off a post written by Tim Ferriss (yes, he of The 4-Hour Workweek fame) about his PX Project. It’s a 3-hour cognitive experiment that produced an average increase in reading speed of 386%. Writes Ferriss, “It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. One page every 6 seconds. By comparison, the average reading speed in the US is 200-300 wpm (1/2 to 1 page per minute), with the top…
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