Author Topic: Who wants to read at 600+words per minute? (Read 2533 times)

just Warren · « **on:** March 21, 2014, 02:29:26 AM »

http://www.spritzinc.com/about/

It's not out yet so there's no price but it seems awesome. The claim they have some folks up to 900 WPM.

Click on the little circle that says click to spritz choose your speed and see how you do.

And no, I'm not affiliated with them or getting paid or anything.

zahc · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2014, 09:21:27 AM »

This idea has been around a while. The only new contribution I can see is their supposed identification of distinctive word-shape features.

It's a fun game-I can do 500wpm-but it only seems to work on well-known vocabulary, and you have no control of the pace of presentation....you are basically being read to rather than reading.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2014, 09:51:20 AM »

I would argue that if it's not auditory, you're still "reading".

I would suggest tying the app to a dictionary word frequency chart, and the lower the word frequency is, the WPM rate dips for that word briefly.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2014, 10:45:02 AM »

Speed reading, scanning for comprehension, is not really reading all the words
you use your peripheral vision to see the edge words while not looking at them

This sprintz is different, as all the words are presented

I can handle the 600 wpm flow, but I'm not sure about the lack of re-reading for comprehension.

Balog · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2014, 11:31:38 AM »

1. This is a dupe of a thread I made a while back. http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=43475.0

2. At the higher rates of speed, wouldn't the length of a blink result in a couple missed words?

MechAg94 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2014, 11:35:04 AM »

I figure my comprehension would plummet considerably if I tried to read fast. Wouldn't it also take some of the fun out of reading some books?

lee n. field · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2014, 01:00:57 PM »

Quote from: Warren on March 21, 2014, 02:29:26 AM

http://www.spritzinc.com/about/

It's not out yet so there's no price but it seems awesome. The claim they have some folks up to 900 WPM.

Click on the little circle that says click to spritz choose your speed and see how you do.

And no, I'm not affiliated with them or getting paid or anything.

Hmmm. Yeah. Blowing through Jeremiah's thundering in 45 minutes.

Stand_watie · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2014, 03:58:08 PM »

I tried at 600 and had no difficulty, but it felt akward. Might be the subject matter.

AmbulanceDriver · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2014, 04:01:58 PM »

Quote from: Stand_watie on March 21, 2014, 03:58:08 PM

I tried at 600 and had no difficulty, but it felt akward. Might be the subject matter.

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just Warren · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2014, 04:03:45 PM »

Quote from: Balog on March 21, 2014, 11:31:38 AM

1. This is a dupe of a thread I made a while back. http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=43475.0

2. At the higher rates of speed, wouldn't the length of a blink result in a couple missed words?

I must have blinked and missed that thread. Didn't even think to do search either.

I did fine at 600 WPM though the blink and miss a few words thing probably did happen I didn't lose the flow of what was being said. The problem I see with this is that sometimes I fade out a bit and think more about what I just read or about something else entirely, with a book that's not a problem; with this though, by the time I re-tune in a couple of chapters could have passed by.

For a laptop or desktop instead of using the keyboard or a mouse button, especially if I have to navigate the cursor to the right spot, to press stop I'd like something like a signaler of the sort you see on game shows. Keep the button depressed and the words keep coming, let it go and they stop instantly. For a phone as long as you keep the phone facing the right way at the proper angle the words flow, if not they stop.

I could certainly make use of this thing.

Balog · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2014, 04:06:11 PM »

Yeah, I posted that on a day we were having some serious database errors so I think no one ever really read it.

KD5NRH · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2014, 04:17:49 PM »

Quote from: Warren on March 21, 2014, 02:29:26 AM

It's not out yet so there's no price but it seems awesome. The claim they have some folks up to 900 WPM.

If they could get me to that point, including the charts and equations, I'd pay. Somehow I doubt they can teach me to process calculus that fast.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2014, 07:42:28 PM »

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #13 on:** March 21, 2014, 07:44:25 PM »

Quote from: Harold Tuttle on March 21, 2014, 10:45:02 AM

Speed reading, scanning for comprehension, is not really reading all the words
you use your peripheral vision to see the edge words while not looking at them

This sprintz is different, as all the words are presented

I can handle the 600 wpm flow, but I'm not sure about the lack of re-reading for comprehension.

No they aren't. Even at the slowest speed, I can see that they leave out words -- probably on the assumption that the mind will fill in the blanks automatically. Which may be true, and it works for short, expository passages. IMHO it's useless for longer works of any literary quality.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #14 on:** March 21, 2014, 07:49:27 PM »

600 wpm is doable without tricks. Takes practice

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Stand_watie · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2014, 12:23:20 AM »

Quote from: cassandra and sara's daddy on March 21, 2014, 07:49:27 PM

600 wpm is doable without tricks. Takes practice

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It's not only doable, it's common using traditional reading style.

280plus · « **Reply #16 on:** March 22, 2014, 09:15:04 PM »

Haven't been tested in a while but I was up around there. Rumor had it JFK could do 1200. The big question is how much of what you read that fast can you retain and regurgitate?

Stand_watie · « **Reply #17 on:** March 22, 2014, 10:13:33 PM »

Quote from: 280plus on March 22, 2014, 09:15:04 PM

Haven't been tested in a while but I was up around there. Rumor had it JFK could do 1200. The big question is how much of what you read that fast can you retain and regurgitate?

We had a "reading machine" in 7th and 8th grade that dragged the print past a gap in the reader. Had to pass a test with 80% success (multiple choice) to advance to the next speed. Myself and the other bookworm in the class were reading at 1000 wpm (keep in mind that these were 8th grade level texts and she and I normally read adult level texts). The reader maxed at 1800 wpm, and she and I had (geek vowed) planned to max it long before graduating. I moved away that summer to a different state/school/curricula, but I'll bet she maxed it well before graduating.

I did a very cursory self assessment of my pleasure reading speed based on the last novel I read (Ian Banks) and I'd put it at 750 wpm 30 years later.

280plus · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2014, 11:04:20 AM »

I worked on a similar machine freshman year in HS. Can't recall what my max was.

T.O.M. · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2014, 01:24:50 PM »

You know, I can readnat 600wpm, but why? Why do I need to read at a blistering pace? If I'm reading for enjoyment, I have no desire to rush. If I am reading to learn, then I can set my own pace as I need to.

birdman · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2014, 09:39:23 PM »

Sometimes I think I'd want to read at 600wpm, but to do so would probably require Rev and a ball pean hammer.

280plus · « **Reply #21 on:** March 24, 2014, 09:31:42 AM »

Not sure I read that fast or even how fast I actually read these days. I do know I find myself at the end of a page having no idea what it was I just read and end up going back to read it again. :D

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Author Topic: Who wants to read at 600+words per minute? (Read 2533 times)