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By: Terry Calhoun

Terry Calhoun — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:35:29 +0000

Hello, glad to find this post. So much stuff on the Internet is about paying to learn to read fast.

I also am a natural fast reader and would like to connect with others who learned this without any special classes.

I often read a 400-page fiction novel in at most 2 hours. This came on me as early as age 7.

By: bob #4

bob #4 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:57:07 +0000

I know what you are saying. I usually read about 600 words a minute, and consider it normal. Everyone else says I read very fast and that I can’t possibly comprehend it all. They also ask me if and where i took my course in speed-reading, but I’ve never taken one! I too started reading when i was very young. mabye there is some connection there?

By: AlexK

AlexK — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:25:11 +0000

When I learned speed reading my speed went backward. 400 plus WPM was my average and after the course my speed was 235 WPM. These days I can read 3 or 3 books a day each book only takes 30 to 90 minutes and comprehension is 75 to 90% depending on my needs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:29:50 +0000

I have been a speed reader for many years.

I lived on the streets since I was 6 years old and never learnt to read. Although I could read ‘MacDonalds’ and my name ‘Richard’

When I was 46 I was ‘adopted’ by a Christain family and David, the landlord, had taken speed reading course in the 80′s and read frequently. Him and Linda taught me how to read and write (and type!), at first I had to pronounce the words as I read. Within in a few months of progress, I was then taught to look at the words rather than sub-vocalise.

This was when I first started speed reading – it took many months of practice before I could read fast.. I am 56 now and recently did a test (from author Tony Buzan). I read at 630 words a minute with 68% comprehension.. so I guess thats pretty good as the average is 300 with 50%.

Thanks to David and Linda

By: suzy Carr

suzy Carr — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:50:29 +0000

I am glad to find someone who is a natural speed reader like myself. I really never gave it a thought until I started college way back when. At that time I considered it natural and thought everyone read “fast.” Then I took a speed reading test and learned I was reading at over 500 wpm with 100% comprehension. My school counselor thought I was “gifted.” But honestly it was just normal for me. I don’t know any other way to read. My brain scans the written word like a computer( for lack of a better word)I filter out words like the, and etc. This is not conciously done, of course. Some reading material I have no patience for and find myself scanning a whole page and grasping the central idea without all the fillers. Do you do this also? And secondly, is there an explanation as to why we speed read? I can’t think of any. I do know that I was reading by age 4 and when I started school the following year the teacher said I would have to be “retrained.” LOL Any insight would be helpful..