The only key to escalating your reading rate is practice. More practice and more will you gain in terms of enhanced reading skills. Realize the importance and the process of learning the art. Nothing takes place over a night. So, don’t give up until you completely get hold of this significant art of speed reading.
If you are really keen in increasing your reading speed, the following tips can help you achieve your goal :
- While reading your eyes make jerky movements and come to rest on a certain word. This rest period is known as fixation in reading. Try to take more words with each fixation.
- Let your eyes move faster across the page to read.
- Give time to yourself to get familiar with innovative words by working on improving your vocabulary. This will prevent you from getting stuck on a particular word.
- Familiarize yourself with new words so you don't get stuck on them when you read them again.
- If you notice your lips moving then push yourself to read faster and avoid moving your lips.
- Make a habit of regular reading for almost 20 to 30 minutes every day.
- Determine your basic purpose of reading. This will help you skim your reading material.
- Refer some of the good speed reading books for effective results.
- Force yourself to read faster than your normal reading rate.
- Spend as little as 30 to 40 seconds in reading the title, sub title and bold types. Stress more on the resourceful and vital information.
- Set your own targets for speed reading. If you are reading 200 words per minute, then set a target for 300 words. Once when you are comfortable reading 300 words per minute set a higher target and similarly keep on increasing your target slightly higher than what you are comfortable with.
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