Then, there's a thing called “ attentional blink,” where if the words are presented too quickly together the brain will skip a beat, missing some of the text. For one, paying attention to text displayed this way can be tiring.
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Rapid serial visual presentation does have its downsides, though. Spritz and Velocity each offer presentation speeds up to 1,000 words per minute. Pushed up to 500, the process feels less like reading and more like absorbing the text. It's easy to be skeptical that something so simple would have such a big effect on reading speed, but playing with these samples from Spritz certainly makes the idea seem convincing: Studies have shown that using Rapid Serial Visual Presentation helps increase reader’s reading speed because it forces the reader to stop reading out loud inside their head (subvocalization), and suppresses the tendency for eyes to backtrack the line while reading and searching for the end of the sentence. This makes us read much more quickly, says 9 to 5 Mac: In rapid serial visual presentation, words are shown one-by-one in quick succession, rather than being all on the page in a block of text. There's another way to read, known as rapid serial visual presentation, that speeds up the process. The way that we tend to read-top-to-bottom, left-to-right, absorbing the words and sentences on a page-is not ideal, if speed is the goal. By doing little more than reading through one of these technologies, the companies say, you could push your rate up to four, even five books per week. But a slate of new technologies*, including Spritz and Velocity, think you can do better. At the average reading speed of around 300 words per minute, and with an average novel having 64,000 words, this comes out to about a book and a half each week. Most Americans spend just under six hours per week reading books.
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