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Speed Reading Exercise Guide

Reading faster makes your "reading muscles" stronger just like exercising your body makes your muscles stronger. To increase your reading speed: 1. Read for 4 minutes and mark your finish line. 2. Set a timer for 3 minutes and try to reach the finish line. 3. Set a timer for 2 minutes and keep reading line by line without worrying about comprehension. 4. Set a timer for 1 minute and do your best to reach the finish line. 5. Read for 2 minutes from the finish line at a comfortable pace and calculate your new reading rate.

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Speed Reading Exercise Guide

Reading faster makes your "reading muscles" stronger just like exercising your body makes your muscles stronger. To increase your reading speed: 1. Read for 4 minutes and mark your finish line. 2. Set a timer for 3 minutes and try to reach the finish line. 3. Set a timer for 2 minutes and keep reading line by line without worrying about comprehension. 4. Set a timer for 1 minute and do your best to reach the finish line. 5. Read for 2 minutes from the finish line at a comfortable pace and calculate your new reading rate.

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Reading Is Like Exercising


When you go to work out, you cannot expect your muscles to grow if you
pamper them. You need to push your muscles to where they are a little
uncomfortable in order for them to grow. The same applies to reading. If
you push yourself to read faster, your “reading muscles” will become
stronger, and what was once hard, becomes easy. You can read faster,
simply by training yourself to read faster. Those of you who run know this.
When you are running on a treadmill, if you practice regularly, you can
watch yourself run at faster and faster levels. The levels that were once
hard become easy a week later, because you have pushed yourself to a
higher degree of excellence.
To increase your speed, even more, try this exercise: You will need an
easy-reading novel, a pencil, and a watch or timer:

1. Read comfortably (using your finger or a visual pacer) for 4 minutes.


Set the alarm to go off in 4 minutes and read as you normally would
read. Mark the line when your alarm goes off. This is going to be
your “finish line.”
2. Now set your alarm for 3 minutes. The goal here is to reach the finish
line before your alarm goes off. Then read (using your finger) until
the line in step 1 in 3 minutes.
3. Set your alarm for 2 minutes. Don’t worry about comprehension. Try
to get to the finish line before your alarm goes off in 2 minutes. Use a
visual pacer and go through it line by line. Have your eyes follow
your finger as fast as possible.
4. Final stretch. Set your timer for 1 minute. Do your best to get to the
finish line in one minute. Do not skip any line, and don’t worry about
comprehension right now.
5. Now breathe. Set your timer for 2 minutes. Start from your finish line
to read a new section. Read at a comfortable rate with
comprehension. Count the number of lines you read, multiply by the
number of words per line, then divide this number by two. This is
your new reading rate. Write it down.

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