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No matter who you are, whether young or old and regardless of your profession, being able to read and comprehend as quickly as possible is an incredibly useful skill. Many never bother to push themselves to read faster once they acquire the ability to do so as a child. Like any other skill, however, reading improves with practice. When you exercise this skill, you will reap the dividends. All you need to get started speed reading is just a little study on the techniques used in the actual practice of it.

Give some thought to how you learned to read. Letters came first, then words. And you almost certainly were taught to read by sounding out words. As an adult though, there is no need to do so anymore. You can merely see a word on a page and immediately recognize it as such. Part of speed reading is understanding that the same principle can be applied to entire sentences. You can get the meaning of a sentence without necessarily looking at every single word.

If you are looking at a page of text, anywhere from forty to sixty percent of the words are of lesser importance. This includes articles, conjunctions and other similar words. When you are speed reading, you acknowledge that they are there, but you do not need to read them specifically. You can infer their presence from other words and you'll be able to move much faster. You'll also see that when it comes to speed reading, you will have a great deal of success if you look at the sentence as a whole rather than as a series of words strung end to end.

Give yourself a mechanical cue as well. When you are reading a page, put a notecard or a piece of paper directly above the line that you are reading. Then as you read, scroll the piece of paper down the page. Essentially, you'll be chasing yourself down the page and you will find that your eyes will automatically try to keep pace with your notecard. Try this slowly at first and then let it speed up. You'll find that in only four or five sessions, you'll be able to read a great deal faster, and before too long, you'll be able to keep u the speed without the notecard at all.

Remember that when you try these techniques that you don't do them constantly. The human brain processes best in twenty minute chunks. After twenty minutes, you'll find that you will slow down and this can be quite frustrating; it might even make you doubt that you can read more quickly at all. Remember to take frequent breaks, and despite the nature of the activity, you don't have to feel rushed!

There are any number of good reasons to learn speed reading. No matter what yours is, start practicing and using this valuable skill today!

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