How to Read the Right Way: A Complete Guide

• Skimming: quickly going through passages to find the main points.
• Meta guiding uses a pointer, such as your index finger or a pen, to guide your eyes along the lines of text.
• The vision span method uses the span of human eyesight to read words in batches.
• Rapid serial visual representation (RSVP): an electronic reading system displays words one at a time.

Regardless of which reading method you use, the evidence points towards the fact that speed comes at the sacrifice of understanding.

Depending on what you’re reading, this might not necessarily be a bad thing: If you’re trying to get through a dry piece to capture a few key points or you are going through a short piece that’s easy to understand, speed reading strategies might make sense.