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Read in Clumps
A clump is a collection of 4 to 16 adjacent words that you read in a single glance. When you read in clumps, you naturally increase your speed because you can’t slow down to vocalize (speak or hear the words as you read them).
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Location is Everything
Once you’ve taught yourself to speed read at a decent pace, and have some books you want to work through, you need an ideal reading environment.
Distraction is everywhere.
Separate yourself from everything that distracts you.
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Author's message
Once you know and understand the author’s message, you’ll read faster and then move on to the next one.
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The barriers to increasing reading speed
- Regression: Going to the previous word to read it again. To stop it use a visual pacer. Underline the words that you read with your finger (in pc use your cursor.)
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