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Moonchilde
Posts: 18,504
Registered: ‎05-23-2010

Re: 📰📚 Have You Ever Learned To 'Speed Read'?

‎06-25-2016 02:32 PM

Never took a speed reading class, but have always been able to read fast. In school I learned to skim for important data pretty accurately, which is speed reading more or less. I prefer not to read fast with fiction; the faster I read fiction and the more I'm tempted to skim, the book isn't a good one for me.

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wildcat fan
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Re: 📰📚 Have You Ever Learned To 'Speed Read'?

‎06-25-2016 02:32 PM

My son and husband are speed readers and like human calculators adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing multiple digits numbers in their heads.  The human brain is amazing.  

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Burnsite
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Re: 📰📚 Have You Ever Learned To 'Speed Read'?

‎06-25-2016 02:39 PM

I love to read but take it in slowly.  That way I retain it better.  Smiley Happy

 

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jubilant
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Re: 📰📚 Have You Ever Learned To 'Speed Read'?

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‎06-25-2016 11:22 PM - edited ‎06-25-2016 11:23 PM

I never took a speed reading class but I have always been able to read fast ever since grade school and I have devoured many a book!   There are fun online tests to see how fast you are.  The best tests ask "comprehension" questions when you finish the reading.

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Re: 📰📚 Have You Ever Learned To 'Speed Read'?

‎06-25-2016 11:26 PM

I took a speed reading course in HS - it served me well in nursing school and college.

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