are there any speed readers here? is it a worthwhile skill to

technical reading
academic reading
not pleasure reading
be on your way

>>9368294

>skill

It's literally just learning to skim. Most speed reading guides outright tell you to skip sections if they look "unimportant".

>>9368294
I can't see what kind of books could you read with such a skill. You can read badly fiction, philosophy becomes simply impossible and so are manuals, textbooks, whatever.

I can imagine myself speedreading only books I care nothing about.

>>9368294
If you can process entire lines at once it's useful. If you just try to skim because memes told you so you lose out on everything.

>>9368325
how do you do this

Based on all the descriptions I've heard and at my own speed of reading I'm pretty sure I've been a "speed reader" all my life. How do "normal people" read? Do you subvocalize or something?

>>9368386
Yes. Especially when I'm reading in a foreign language.

>>9368386
I don't subvocalize, but I do read the text only a little faster than a real life speaking pace. I would read extremely quickly if I could do so and take everything in. Maybe it's not the correct approach.

Bear in mind that's only for fiction. I slow right down again when I read philosophy. Or any heavily conceptual text.

>>9368376
Look at the entire line like you'd look at a word.