SPEED READING CHECKLIST
SPEED READING
❏ Avoid Subvocalization → Avoid reading the words in your own mind
❏ Saccades → Imagine 2-3 columns per page and train eyes to jump between
❏ Do NOT start a saccade on the first word or end on the last word
❏ Train with a card → Never go back on a paragraph of a text
❏ Train yourself to only go back after you’ve finished the entire paragraph and
reviewed it’s markers to see how much you’ve retained
❏ Progressive overload → Input information at the speed you set with the card during
the phase you’re in, which should be just at the edge of your comfort zone
❏ Trick your brain into speeding up → Move the card along the page more than
double the speed you are trying to hit ⎯ don’t expect to catch much of anything
❏ Do this 3X and try to catch as much as possible on the page
❏ You can focus on left side one pass, middle the next, and right the last
❏ Avoid confirmation bias → After pre-reading and speed reading a section of the test,
jot down everything you remember. Compare notes side by side with what you just
read.
❏ Look out for details you neglected or remembered incorrectly
❏ Whenever you miss information, ask why it happened
❏ If you added information that wasn’t there, ask yourself why
❏ Managing Pauses → Do not create markers while reading simultaneously, until it
becomes “second nature” (takes months of training)
❏ Make small pauses of around 1 second in-between paragraphs
❏ Make medium pauses of 2-3 seconds between pages
❏ Make larger pauses of 15-30 seconds between chapters
❏ Add additional pauses if you feel distracted, overwhelmed, or frustrated
❏ Start with simple markers that are not lively and have limited detail ⎯ they will
become more detailed with practice
❏ If you feel like you cannot finish a paragraph because you subvocalize a word
or your attention drifts off, you need to stop and review the markers, because
your short term memory is being overloaded
❏ Take regular pauses and look up to review markers and prevent eye strain.
Look at something far away.
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Speed Reading “Flight Checklist”
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