You likely won’t see this, but I just wanted to say you are a very inspiring creator. Your passion in learning new (and often useful) skills is very respectable and something I wish to replicate in my future (if I can find time in my busy schedule 😂). But thank you for making such enjoyable and inspiring content.
You're my homies, I read all these comments! ❤ Stoked you like what I do! Make sure to carve out even a tiny bit of time each day/week and you'll see more progress than you think!
you have such a unique way of making videos i was surprised that the video is actually 10 minutes !! I couldn’t get bored along the whole video. ✨ thank you for the tips they really gonna help me this upcoming winter
Speed reading is like speed typing or speed talking. It limits you only up to the point were your comprehention/generation speed walls you. Technically the solution to hit your comprehention/generation limit as easily as possible with the least downsides is to write in dense ways, or read dense things. Dense in the sense that there is very little fluff. For example languages that are litterally shorter yet convey the same meaning. English is one of the best for this. Another example is there are programing languages that have purposely created "grammer" that is very dense with information. And for writing you can develop an ideolect with words or symbols that you yourself define as meaning certain common things. This is why terminology specific to types of things gets created. Like engineering specific slang, or gamer specific slang. These are words created to "densify" meaning. And you can do so yourself with your own writing and speech and its called your "ideolect". For reading you can look for dense technical summaries of books. Or look for books were in the preview you can see the writer writes with dense wording. All these examples allow for your comprehention/generation speed to be the limiter. And as for speeding that up it isnt so simple. Its mostly a matter of familizing yourself with more abstractions... since your base speed is in many ways fixed and the abstractions you are familiar with are the tools that multiply your base speed. Creating a good ideolect or learning new actually useful words is good (so not learning "portcullus" instead of "castle gate" since you will have to put an insane amount of effort to make portcullus easier for your mind to work with than castle gate... and even then if that effort went into castle gate you would be faster at comprehending things that involved castles or gates that werent castle gate, vs portcullus which is very neiche). Learning fallacies and common statistical techniciques are more examples of abstraction tools you can familiarize yourself with to increase the multiplier to your mind's base speed.
Well I guess I will give it a try. Right now my comfortable reading speed is 0 words per minut. If I could get that op to 300 words per minut that would make a huge change. As it is now I always go for 100% comprehension, cause I am not going to read the same book two time.
I hear you! It wasn't until recently that I was trying to read regularly and that's when I realised my speed was realllly getting in the way of getting through even books that I was enjoying. Give it a go and report back
You should look into “photo reading”, it was developed in the 1980’s by a psychologist and it’s ridiculously awesome. It combines the subconscious and conscious aspects of mind. In studies, people have read up to 65,000 words per minute and when tested they had 74% comprehension. It’s used a lot by doctors and lawyers, and there is a ton of scientific studies backing it up. I used it recently with a book on wild edible plants and in about 5 days I learned 50 plants (how to identify them, use them, and tell them apart from poisonous look a likes). I really can’t recommend photo reading enough, it’s life changing. 👍
@@Notmetryingtohidemyname It was developed by a psychologist named Paul R. Scheele. His company teaches courses on it, but I just learned it from his book called “Photo Reading”. I got the book off of Amazon. Photo Reading is a 5 step process, that’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I definitely recommend it.
Thanks a lot for these valuable tips. I love reading but it seems that I read in the wrong way. Thanks to You Tube videos I am learning how to read properly and fast 😊
I remember looking in to the actual research about this a while back and the science seemed fairly clear: Theres no such thing as speed reading...Okay, Ill clarify that a bit. If you are unpracticed at reading then you will speed up as you get more comfortable, much of that is what you see in this video. In the long term you will see modest improvements as you learn a greater vocabulary and a bunch of language structure etc, but once youve found your level there is no evidence that any individual can utilise any trick or technique that will _dramatically_ increase their pace while still retaining anywhere near a complete understanding of the text. Carroll could test this more thoroughly himself, -Give it a few months of regular reading then do your test on speed and comprehension. That is your baseline. -Try on all these tricks and such that supposedly dramatically improve the pace. -Repeat the test to see if you can obtain a higher speed with the same level of comprehension. Perhaps he will be an outlier but the science suggests he will see little improvement. A more realistic skill is to learn how to skim through texts, locate relevant words, headings, etc, and focus down information. This can give the impression of speed reading, but is no such thing, you are just rapidly finding the relevant sections you will then read at a more or less typical speed before piecing it all together. These kinds of methods of using the trade offs between speed and comprehension have a lot of practical usage, but as far as all the evidence is concerned you will never achieve both. That all said, reading is good for the brain, just committing to a minimum of a chapter or 10,20 pages a day can help. Youd be surprised at how many books you start to consume with a steady bog standard pace. (It personally also helped a great deal getting an e-reader as all the books are right there. No need to buy them in, look through my shelves etc, my entire library is right in my hand, just pick and go. Not to mention you have instant access to thousands of classics in the public domain.)
As someone who reads 10-15 books a week, i will say that the more you read, the faster you get. Also, that i thought the average reading speed was a lot higher.
Average reading speed is a myth. I just read a pamphlet on how to read faster. They cheerfully told me that the AVERAGE reader reads at 300 to 600 words per minute. I chucked it out. I now read at the speed of enjoyment.
Bonus bonus tip: Stop narrating every single word in your head. It's a bad reading habit. Your brain can process words and their meaning ridiculously fast. But it slows down to match the speed of the voice in your head. You are no longer in kindergarden. You don't actually need to talk to understand what you are reading.
Interesting... I used to have a 600 wpm in 2020. Then I deliberately started reading slower to better savour my books since I was going through them too quickly. No joke, I once completed a 500 page book in just under 2 hours. Recently I rechecked my speed after nearly 2.5 years and it has fallen to around 500 words. So... not bad but room for improvement. 1000 wpm is the ultimate dream. Also, is it just me or does everyone read slower on a screen than an actual physical book?
Most people do indeed read slower on screen, but that's because they're trying to replicate paper (black text on white) medium/light grey text on black is MUCH easier and faster to read..... not white text though (unless your screen isn't very bright) as that just causes eye strain.
@@TommoCarroll Thanks. Anyone can develop a reading habit imo, you just need to find the right kind of books for you. In my case that just so happened to be fantasy books with 400 pages average. When you have a series of 6 of these, and you are too curious to know what happens next, you naturally end up with higher speed after a few years. 😅😅😅
Wow I imagine that lol, must be fun asfff But I'm stuck with school books for this year and the next one lol, I guess I can learn to speed read even though my average speed is 300 wpm lol Thanks for even more inspiration, also 500 wpm is insane dude, what's the comprehension though?@@Creative___Mind
but how much can you comprehend and memorize of a text, if you apply these techniques? Just reading it fast won't give you any benefits, if you won't be able to follow the message.
I am just wondering will you make more science videos in the future? While I do like these videos I kinda miss the “aspect science” side of this channel I guess. Anyway just wondering.
@@TommoCarroll you said in the beginning of the video that using your peripheral vision for reading can be used in 2 ways: 1. reading the "middle" of the sentence by drawing 2 lines. 2. Reading only the spaces between the words so that you always read 2 words at a time. You focused the entire video on number 1 but avoided number. I would like to know what it is like for you when you practice number 2.
I honestly don’t know how I learned spead reading by myself. At a young age as well. I can read a book very quickly but I think it’s just a hyper focus of my ADHD. I just found out I had it 3 years ago when I was 34. Whilst I’m not medicating it (didn’t work for me) it kinda became my superpower and my kryptonite 🤷🏻♀️
09:04 😂😂😂 you had to do it 😂😂😂 I often "travel" between both styles of reading but I'm not good at comprehension when I'm fast reading something I don't enjoy. Maybe I'll try relearning how to fast read. GG to you, Mr. Average 😂
@@CanadianBakin42O Exactly. Their comment was posted 15 minutes ago, and the video was uploaded 16 minutes ago (at the time of typing this.) I'm sure they watched a 10 minute, 30 second video in 1 minute. 😅 I reposted this comment, because your UA-cam handle was posted as plain text.
it’s kinda crazy how nobody’s talking about Antozent, they are selling 250 self help books for the price of one
I think this is the most honest and helpful video I've seen on speed reading yet
Nice! It's genuinely something I'm using every single day now and slowly progressing my speed reading full books, such an untapped skill!
What is the progress now?
@@TommoCarrollwhat's the progress now?
You likely won’t see this, but I just wanted to say you are a very inspiring creator. Your passion in learning new (and often useful) skills is very respectable and something I wish to replicate in my future (if I can find time in my busy schedule 😂). But thank you for making such enjoyable and inspiring content.
You're my homies, I read all these comments! ❤
Stoked you like what I do! Make sure to carve out even a tiny bit of time each day/week and you'll see more progress than you think!
@TommoCarroll so that's the real reason you did this video🤔
you have such a unique way of making videos i was surprised that the video is actually 10 minutes !! I couldn’t get bored along the whole video. ✨
thank you for the tips they really gonna help me this upcoming winter
That's what I like to hear! So many more videos coming soon for you!
@@TommoCarrolli got 800 wpm LOL
That one unemployed friend on a Tuesday
Agreeable
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Not me being unemployed and learning this on a Tuesday
Employment is slavery
@@TommoCarroll🕺🕺
Speed reading is like speed typing or speed talking. It limits you only up to the point were your comprehention/generation speed walls you.
Technically the solution to hit your comprehention/generation limit as easily as possible with the least downsides is to write in dense ways, or read dense things.
Dense in the sense that there is very little fluff.
For example languages that are litterally shorter yet convey the same meaning. English is one of the best for this.
Another example is there are programing languages that have purposely created "grammer" that is very dense with information.
And for writing you can develop an ideolect with words or symbols that you yourself define as meaning certain common things. This is why terminology specific to types of things gets created. Like engineering specific slang, or gamer specific slang. These are words created to "densify" meaning. And you can do so yourself with your own writing and speech and its called your "ideolect".
For reading you can look for dense technical summaries of books. Or look for books were in the preview you can see the writer writes with dense wording.
All these examples allow for your comprehention/generation speed to be the limiter.
And as for speeding that up it isnt so simple. Its mostly a matter of familizing yourself with more abstractions... since your base speed is in many ways fixed and the abstractions you are familiar with are the tools that multiply your base speed. Creating a good ideolect or learning new actually useful words is good (so not learning "portcullus" instead of "castle gate" since you will have to put an insane amount of effort to make portcullus easier for your mind to work with than castle gate... and even then if that effort went into castle gate you would be faster at comprehending things that involved castles or gates that werent castle gate, vs portcullus which is very neiche).
Learning fallacies and common statistical techniciques are more examples of abstraction tools you can familiarize yourself with to increase the multiplier to your mind's base speed.
Such an amazing storytelling and video editing. Worth the time to go through your videos.
Thanks for these tips will come handy in many of the exams which involve fast comprehension skills
Good to hear 💪
Well I guess I will give it a try. Right now my comfortable reading speed is 0 words per minut. If I could get that op to 300 words per minut that would make a huge change.
As it is now I always go for 100% comprehension, cause I am not going to read the same book two time.
I hear you! It wasn't until recently that I was trying to read regularly and that's when I realised my speed was realllly getting in the way of getting through even books that I was enjoying. Give it a go and report back
You should look into “photo reading”, it was developed in the 1980’s by a psychologist and it’s ridiculously awesome. It combines the subconscious and conscious aspects of mind. In studies, people have read up to 65,000 words per minute and when tested they had 74% comprehension. It’s used a lot by doctors and lawyers, and there is a ton of scientific studies backing it up. I used it recently with a book on wild edible plants and in about 5 days I learned 50 plants (how to identify them, use them, and tell them apart from poisonous look a likes). I really can’t recommend photo reading enough, it’s life changing. 👍
Could you please guide more on this
@@Notmetryingtohidemyname It was developed by a psychologist named Paul R. Scheele. His company teaches courses on it, but I just learned it from his book called “Photo Reading”. I got the book off of Amazon. Photo Reading is a 5 step process, that’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. I definitely recommend it.
This made me subscribe. All these videos inspire me and are so cool. Keep it up!
As an already fast reader, Im curious to see if I can reach super speed with this
Report back your results!
Are you super speed yet?
Dude you're genuinely one of the most underrated editors/creators on this platform
Thanks mate, I appreciate that! Working on a loooooooooad more, so time to go from underrated to rated...and maybe even overrated 🤞
Also cutest
My precious gollum said calmly
Thank you so much I'm definitely giving it a try.
Thanks a lot for these valuable tips. I love reading but it seems that I read in the wrong way. Thanks to You Tube videos I am learning how to read properly and fast 😊
Another outstanding video, Tommo! Thanks so much for sharing!
Cheers from Brazil!
And another outstanding comment Eduardo, cheers from the UK!
@@TommoCarroll My pleasure!
I remember looking in to the actual research about this a while back and the science seemed fairly clear: Theres no such thing as speed reading...Okay, Ill clarify that a bit.
If you are unpracticed at reading then you will speed up as you get more comfortable, much of that is what you see in this video. In the long term you will see modest improvements as you learn a greater vocabulary and a bunch of language structure etc, but once youve found your level there is no evidence that any individual can utilise any trick or technique that will _dramatically_ increase their pace while still retaining anywhere near a complete understanding of the text.
Carroll could test this more thoroughly himself,
-Give it a few months of regular reading then do your test on speed and comprehension. That is your baseline.
-Try on all these tricks and such that supposedly dramatically improve the pace.
-Repeat the test to see if you can obtain a higher speed with the same level of comprehension.
Perhaps he will be an outlier but the science suggests he will see little improvement.
A more realistic skill is to learn how to skim through texts, locate relevant words, headings, etc, and focus down information. This can give the impression of speed reading, but is no such thing, you are just rapidly finding the relevant sections you will then read at a more or less typical speed before piecing it all together. These kinds of methods of using the trade offs between speed and comprehension have a lot of practical usage, but as far as all the evidence is concerned you will never achieve both.
That all said, reading is good for the brain, just committing to a minimum of a chapter or 10,20 pages a day can help. Youd be surprised at how many books you start to consume with a steady bog standard pace. (It personally also helped a great deal getting an e-reader as all the books are right there. No need to buy them in, look through my shelves etc, my entire library is right in my hand, just pick and go. Not to mention you have instant access to thousands of classics in the public domain.)
This guy is my inspiration. I’ve learned so many skills from watching him.
As someone who reads 10-15 books a week, i will say that the more you read, the faster you get. Also, that i thought the average reading speed was a lot higher.
I'm sure average is weighed down by the 80+% of the world that barely read anything substantive.
@@jordonhodges8493 that would make a lot more sense.
Probably very right!
@@jordonhodges8493
10-15 A WEEK!? That is wild! I'm not worthy 🙇♂
@@TommoCarroll you'll join the bookworm crew soon enough, you just need to find some really good books.
Average reading speed is a myth.
I just read a pamphlet on how to read faster. They cheerfully told me that the AVERAGE reader reads at 300 to 600 words per minute. I chucked it out.
I now read at the speed of enjoyment.
If we read it faster how we will remember everything and understand it ???
Helpful
Would be interested to see how this would work for a dyslexic like myself.
Would love to hear the results if you've experimented with it!
Awesome video, insane how much of an improvement you made! Have some brownie points ;)
Cheers bro, I've already eaten the brownies though SEND MORE
Me: doesn't know why I am looking at this video when I already read way to fast
I wish schools would teach these for reading instead of Round Robin
Bonus bonus tip: Stop narrating every single word in your head. It's a bad reading habit.
Your brain can process words and their meaning ridiculously fast. But it slows down to match the speed of the voice in your head.
You are no longer in kindergarden. You don't actually need to talk to understand what you are reading.
I read that this is a bit of a BS tip so I decided not to include it. But if it works for you and others, crack on!
The fact I learn it in two seconds and I was 4
What I do is depending on the book I sayi want to finish it by a week devide that by the page numbers and read that many pages a day
I think some people use this video to literally PROCRASTINATE against reading
I mean they watch this video like 1000 times without touching the book lol
Interesting...
I used to have a 600 wpm in 2020. Then I deliberately started reading slower to better savour my books since I was going through them too quickly. No joke, I once completed a 500 page book in just under 2 hours.
Recently I rechecked my speed after nearly 2.5 years and it has fallen to around 500 words.
So... not bad but room for improvement. 1000 wpm is the ultimate dream.
Also, is it just me or does everyone read slower on a screen than an actual physical book?
Most people do indeed read slower on screen, but that's because they're trying to replicate paper (black text on white) medium/light grey text on black is MUCH easier and faster to read..... not white text though (unless your screen isn't very bright) as that just causes eye strain.
This is a speed that my brain just refuses to comprehend. You're a king/queen of reading 🙇♂
@@TommoCarroll Thanks. Anyone can develop a reading habit imo, you just need to find the right kind of books for you. In my case that just so happened to be fantasy books with 400 pages average. When you have a series of 6 of these, and you are too curious to know what happens next, you naturally end up with higher speed after a few years. 😅😅😅
Wow I imagine that lol, must be fun asfff
But I'm stuck with school books for this year and the next one lol, I guess I can learn to speed read even though my average speed is 300 wpm lol
Thanks for even more inspiration, also 500 wpm is insane dude, what's the comprehension though?@@Creative___Mind
@@LostKin Pretty close to 100%, though sometimes if I don't find it interesting or am stressed or something else, it may drop to as low as 60-75%.
Phenomenal video!
You got yourself a new subscriber
good infromative video🙃
Read fiction faster and nonfics at comfortable speed with more comprehension. That's what I'm gonna try.
this man is the defanition of awesome
Hey tommo lov ur vids i was wondering if you could learn yoyo tricks i would love to see you use a yoyo tysm
Have you tried Howard Berg's book? Super Reading Secrets?
What would you do if i gave you a time machine 😊😊
I just lok and I automatically read it
U really make good video's
And you really make good comments, cheers!
I mean I can sometimes read a whole diary of a wimpy in a day
I love your videos 🎉
PLEASE MAKE AN UPDATE VIDEO
Hey what was the Slime book about?
Read the Bible
Yes
Yeah
What site you use for checking comprehensive reading test?
Wow.... Such a change but will you remember the content afterwards?
am i the only one who couldn't see the other two dots that appeared on the sides TT
I love you
After seeing this video I would be choosing the 2nd technique due to my lack of attention. But does it give way to bad postures ( neck ) ?
I read 500 page books in a day.
can you learn the Ukranian "Hopak" dance for a vid plz, i have been doing this for like 4-5 months now and i'd love to see you try lol!
Yeah when I read I fell board like 4 pages later I fell board
Happens to me so much
ALEX, from Sierra Leone.
Now read it upside down
I was reading the same thing
i have been in England not that long ago 😊
Im wtching and andbim seeing people adding comments
And the sponsor of this video is Audible. Just listen to the books on 3x speed
Damn I really should have got an audible sponsorship in shoudn't I?
Solve a Rubik’s cube
I love that idea !
but how much can you comprehend and memorize of a text, if you apply these techniques? Just reading it fast won't give you any benefits, if you won't be able to follow the message.
You can see my comprehension scores 👍
Book Wornmm mmmie
I am just wondering will you make more science videos in the future? While I do like these videos I kinda miss the “aspect science” side of this channel I guess. Anyway just wondering.
Sorry to say it, but the Aspect Science days are long gone for this channel. I appreciate the love for it though ❤️
Alright, btw congrats on getting more than 25 million views on a short that’s pretty crazy@@TommoCarroll
the nine people that disliked are the people that cant read
Can’t wait till I hit 1 mil
Til you do??? To be fair, this is a joint effort!
Nice video!.
Cheers!
I READ to UNDERSTAND, LEARN NEW WORDS & MAKE NOTES.... SPEED READING without UNDERSTANDING is NOT NECESSARY!
were you going for the Charlie Chaplin mustache? because you got the other German guy...
what are you on about?
Are you related to me, my last name is Carroll
U should learn how to sky dive by ur self
But is reading really the best way to gain knowledge?
I don't think there is a best way, there's 1000 ways to gain knowledge and all of them are good
why am I trying to speed read comments..
it's working...
You didn't practice at all reading only the spacing between the words, aside from your mention in the beginning of course. That might help
…what?
@@TommoCarroll you said in the beginning of the video that using your peripheral vision for reading can be used in 2 ways: 1. reading the "middle" of the sentence by drawing 2 lines. 2. Reading only the spaces between the words so that you always read 2 words at a time. You focused the entire video on number 1 but avoided number. I would like to know what it is like for you when you practice number 2.
Do a 90 in FORTNITE
Genius
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Good work bro !
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And cats
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I like your video if you like and reply i send this video to all my college groups
I struggle with reading so much. I can manage work stuff but reading a book is so difficult for me. ADHD mind can’t cope.
I honestly don’t know how I learned spead reading by myself. At a young age as well. I can read a book very quickly but I think it’s just a hyper focus of my ADHD. I just found out I had it 3 years ago when I was 34. Whilst I’m not medicating it (didn’t work for me) it kinda became my superpower and my kryptonite 🤷🏻♀️
well, but what about words which are outside margin? won't it effect meaning?
09:04 😂😂😂 you had to do it 😂😂😂
I often "travel" between both styles of reading but I'm not good at comprehension when I'm fast reading something I don't enjoy. Maybe I'll try relearning how to fast read.
GG to you, Mr. Average 😂
Mr Average....oh no, not a name I expected this week but i'll take it 🤣
Reading is 😊 so good 🎉❤
Pls learn a fingerboard trick
Like kickflip, po shiv, or anything
😊😊😊
Noice video
You didn't even watch it, be honest. You just commented fast just to try to be first which you're not.
@@CanadianBakin42O Exactly. Their comment was posted 15 minutes ago, and the video was uploaded 16 minutes ago (at the time of typing this.) I'm sure they watched a 10 minute, 30 second video in 1 minute. 😅
I reposted this comment, because your UA-cam handle was posted as plain text.
@@CanadianBakin42Owould you like this or kids saying fIrSt
Cheers!
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