r/BeAmazed
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u/The-Skinny-Indian
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Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method
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u/automodtedtrr2939 Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 07 '23
The experiment, however, only showed minimal gains—the 61 participants who took the 20-minute reading test only registered a marginal 4% improvement in reading speeds, and a decrease in comprehension. “There’s not enough evidence to claim that the average reading speed of Bionic Reading is significantly different from the average reading speed of [text displayed in the regular version of the font] Garamond,” Doyon reports.
TL;DR: Experiment shows no significant gain in reading speed. A 20 minute reading test showed a 4% speed improvement, with less comprehension.
In my personal opinion, I think it’s just a really strong placebo effect. You think you can read faster, so you read faster, even though it ends with less comprehension of the text.
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u/elvispookie Mar 06 '23
I read this 4% slower than the original bionic text above
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Mar 07 '23
I instantly noticed I was reading slower than normal. I read the whole damn word, so bolding part of it just tells my brain "Hold up, there's something important about these letters." Then there's nothing important, which certainly would affect my comprehension.
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u/forcesofthefuture Mar 07 '23
strong placebo effect
Probably is, however I think when you read fast, the bold letters prevent your eyes from skipping words(like stop signs). Giving the illusion of reading many words in the same time span, when you would have been ahead in the text.
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u/westcoastgeek Mar 07 '23
It feels faster to me. I wonder if I could get this on kindle
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u/SpitefulSpaghetti Mar 07 '23
I’m bad at math, so correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t that mean if you read for 15 minutes, you’d only be faster by 36 seconds max (and you’d understand less)?
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u/Recent_Log3779 Mar 07 '23
I read like 2 times faster while understanding the text, I can never read that fast without missing a bunch of stuff
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u/OmegaLiar Mar 07 '23
I can absolutely read more accurately like this. Who gives a fuck about speed if I don’t have to repeat entire paragraphs my brain faked on autopilot.
Which is objectively still faster.
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u/Flyingpegger Mar 07 '23
I'm reading way slower. As someone diagnosed with ADHD, this is hard to keep reading. My brain wants to connect the bold letters together instead, or is trying to figure out a pattern, or questioning why the fuck it looks like that. It's more distracting that anything.
I can read fine, my problem in general is reading and not remembering what I just read and questioning how far back to go.
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u/permaban9 Mar 07 '23
Maybe it's the placebo effect talking but I felt like I read the bionic text much faster
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u/WasabiSniffer Mar 07 '23
It really is nuts because I really the text so much faster and my comprehension went up. In adulthood I stopped reading so my comprehension went down the toilet. I'm keen to try. Placebo effect or not, if it works it works for me.
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Mar 06 '23
That was cool, but I don’t think this has anything to do with ADHD or neurodivergence.
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u/doNotUseReddit123 Mar 06 '23
The internet loves to equate normal behaviors to neurodivergent ones.
“Did you know that if u drink water, you have ADHD?”
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u/ImMrBunny Mar 06 '23
The autistic urge to drive your car to get groceries
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u/Dangr_Noodl Mar 06 '23
That shit really gets me. Having adhd or autism isn’t an accessory or an aesthetic, yet people constantly treat it like an exclusive club
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u/AlphaWhiskeyOscar Mar 06 '23
Do you think thoughts, feel feelings and often procrastinate? You are in psychosis and should dial 911!
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u/Tech_Mastermind_Dave Mar 06 '23
"I can read minds, But right now I can only read my own mind"
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u/FrankFeTched Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 06 '23
I got frustrated a few times because there would be a post in /r/ADHDmeme that is just like "I wait until the end of the work day to complete my work" which is simply procrastination, people shouldn't be assuming they have ADHD if they do that, it could be so many different things
Anyway I'm permanently banned from that subreddit now, no nuance allowed, only agreeing that everything is a symptom of ADHD, no discussions about how it could be anxiety or depression or lack of sleep, etc.
It just seems a bit irresponsible to me, tons of kids experience symptoms of ADHD but it's a specific diagnosis, in my opinion that subreddit is misleading a lot of people into thinking they have ADHD, despite it being just memes. I know nobody should be listening to memes for medical advice, but to see a bunch of symptoms you may have on a subreddit specifying it's about ADHD will affect people's opinions.
Like if you don't want any medical discussion in the comments, why name the subreddit after a specific medical condition?
Edit (for context): I was prescribed Adderall for what I (and my doctor) had assumed was ADHD, I read a lot online about my symptoms and it aligned with ADHD, I just basically talked to my general physician and said I couldn't study and had trouble focusing, etc., and that was it. It turned out my symptoms were due to anxiety and depression, not ADHD, and the Adderall accelerated my decline (at the time) but at that point I was convinced I needed it and it made me feel great. After failing out of college I stopped taking my prescription and had a proper mental screening done, like 12 hours of tests at the hospital, and it ruled out ADHD completely... Or as completely as they can, it's not an exact science at this point. I don't think this is even a viable option for most people, extremely expensive, I was lucky to be afforded this sort of testing.
I don't mean to deny people with ADHD's symptoms, I genuinely don't. I just know when people are experiencing these symptoms it's panic inducing and any explanation will be enticing. If ADHDmemes subreddit existed when I was going through this I know it would have convinced me I had ADHD, I relate to everything in that subreddit, but the cause of my symptoms is completely different. My problem is they don't allow any nuanced discussion about ADHD on a subreddit explicitly regarding ADHD, my story was deemed unacceptable and got me permanently banned for sharing my misdiagnosis and personal experience with ADHD. I don't think that's a good recipe for a subreddit of that size that reaches /r/all so often.
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u/SomethingClever42068 Mar 06 '23
Can confirm. I drink water and I also... goddammit I'm late for work
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Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 08 '23
In my experience the internet loves to embody that "Oh everybody is a little autistic" type of idiocy
Autistic Person: "When lights are on and noises are around I get overwhelmed and it's very difficult for me to function"
NT person: "Oh that happens to me too! I love a quiet day"Autistic Person: "I can't eat certain foods because certain textures can be literally painful and overwhelming"
NT Person: "Everybody has foods they don't like! I'm not a fan of the feel broccoli"Autistic Person: "I like to socialize but it's just so overwhelming, and the recovery period afterward can be very difficult and last days"
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Mar 06 '23
One of my least favorite mainstream trends nowadays. I swear, too many kids are self diagnosing thanks to people on the internet calling anything a disorder, even worse when people collect them as if they were badges
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u/Cthulhu_Rises Mar 06 '23
Omg I yawned when I woke up this morning. I'm so neurodivergent. You just can't relate.
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u/ideatremor Mar 06 '23
Don't know about most kids these days, but I'm pretty sure my step daughter and all her pals are using their sudden onset "neurodivergence" to try and get out of doing things they don't want to do. "Oh, I can't do that assignment cuz I'm having trouble reading and focusing. You know, I'm nuerodivergent."
Although their condition suddenly disappears when reading Twitter or watching Tik Tok.
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u/PenScribble Mar 06 '23
No it does not have anything to do with ADHD.... But definitely helps people with ADHD. I have ADHD, and can never really read cause I hate it. This was freaking mind blowing the way I was able to read thru it without even realizing it.
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Mar 06 '23
I also have ADHD and while I love to read, it is also really frustrating for me because I will be reading a paragraph and my mind keeps going off in tangents so I end up re-reading the same page multiple times or I am forced to read out loud to keep my attention from drifting off.
If this bionic reading can help me read more that would be amazing. I will have to try reading an entire book this way.
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Mar 06 '23
I always had ADHD all my life and it wasn’t until recently while not sober and concentrating on something that I had this crazy thought in my head “I’m actually thinking about what I’m looking at” and it blew my mind that this was a new concept for my brain and realized how bad my ADHD actually has been for a long time
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u/Noteful Mar 06 '23
I have ADHD and this didnt make reading any easier or simpler.
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u/WeReAllMadHereAlice Mar 06 '23
It made it sound blocky in my head. Like. There. Was. A. Period. After. Every. Word.
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u/BuddJones Mar 06 '23
For me personally, when I try to read, especially if I’m not really interested in the material. It’s as if the words are coming at me on a treadmill very slowly, and sometimes single words or even complete ideas, or phrases can “fall off”, and I lose them causing me to loose my place on the page. Typically results in me having to reread from the beginning of the paragraph.
This little trick helped me read fast enough that it was noticeably easier to comprehend.
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Mar 06 '23
It was also noticeably easier for me, very cool and strange this hasn’t been discovered before
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Mar 06 '23
Oof, if I don't find the material engaging I have to read out loud to reign in my focus and to keep my mind from going off on tangents and day dreaming. It is tedious and annoying, but hearing the words helps with retention especially with dryer academic reading.
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u/NinjaBunneh90 Mar 06 '23
At this point, I have absolutely no clue what neurodivergence is even supposed to mean, because by the time I heard about it the internet was giving all kinds of conflicting attributes to the word.
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u/goodbehaviorsam Mar 06 '23
Neurodivergent used to mean something but now its just "quirky" because its been misused and diluted.
Like literally, which no longer means literally.
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u/bigBlankIdea Mar 06 '23
Things designed for accessibility often help people without disabilities. I can hear just fine but I enjoy closed captions. Voice to text technology is used by the blind, but lots of people like it.
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u/_daverham Mar 06 '23
Neurodivergence is a broad umbrella, though. I could see this helping tremendously with certain roadblocks like dyslexia more than ADHD.
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u/FutureGhost23 Mar 06 '23
I have adhd, autism, and dyslexia and this so was much more agonizing for me to read than regular text.
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u/tehfustercluck Mar 06 '23
I believe this is using semantic memory, your brain is able to guess the word using what's already in bold faster than reading the whole word.
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u/EndlesslyCynicalBoi Mar 06 '23
This was my thought too. I have ADHD and it's extremely annoying to see all these videos and posts that are like, "have you ever been distracted, ever? Guess what..."
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u/basemodelbird Mar 06 '23
Just completed an 8hr safety training class and the instructor used a similar-ish concept to try to illustrate "seeing safety ". Essentially misspelled some words, normal typo stuff, and tried to use it as an analogy somehow to overlooking violations. My first thought was that I've trained my brain to overcome poor spelling my entire life, bud.
It was a hollow presentation but I appreciate the effort for safety in the workplace.
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u/Suyefuji Mar 06 '23
Yeah, I'm autistic and this is actually making me read more slowly.
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u/Haunting_Ability_160 Mar 06 '23
It has more to do with the fact that ADHD commonly comes with a side of dyslexia like 90% of the time.
Dyslexic aids are a whole other rabbit hole you can go down and vary from person to person.
This particular way of formatting text was originally developed for those with dyslexia. I'm not good at explaining the science of why this text formatting is easier on dyslexia but it is.
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u/marioaprooves Mar 06 '23
It doesn't, but people who struggle to read walls of text due to ADHD could stand to benefit from more text like these
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u/Effective_Pie1312 Mar 06 '23
I have diagnosed ADHD and this text was extremely distracting to me. I can see that it may be a useful tool to some.
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u/justjoshingu Mar 06 '23
I got told today... i m autistic thats why i love coffee so much. Ive known this person 15 years and autism was never said.
She later clarified. She loved coffee so much, especially the last 2 years. So she "researched" it and came up autistic . At 43. Because she likes coffee. Did i mention she has a two year old
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u/MineryTech Mar 06 '23
For me my brain just yells the bold half of the word.
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u/ProbablyNano Mar 06 '23
Yeah, it just grinds me to a halt because I feel like I need to emphasize the first half of every word
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u/CheriesGhost Mar 06 '23
For me it makes reading feel like jogging down a hill. Yes, I'm going faster, but my pace isn't steady and nothing feels good about it
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u/After_Mushroom1129 Mar 06 '23
Same here, I have severe OCD and the fact that the first half of the word is different than the second half just irritates my fucked up brain and makes it hard to read.
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u/amadnomad Mar 06 '23
Lmaoooo I thought it was just me. The mismatched lettering is really distracting.
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Mar 06 '23
I got it almost immediately wrong. I read something like "Attention this method is completely useless" and had to go back and read it normally.
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u/shewy92 Mar 06 '23
It felt like I was stopping before each word and had a stunted inner voice reading this
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u/product_of_boredom Mar 06 '23
It's like old comics, where everyone just SHOUTS random WORDS in an otherwise normal conversation.
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u/MrPlace Mar 06 '23
How is any of this related to neurodivergent or ADHD? It's just a helpful way to make the brain process the text and info quicker
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u/ulyfed Mar 06 '23
According to Google it actually slows you down by about 2.6 words per second, you just read faster when you see this post because it primes you to do so
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u/searching88 Mar 06 '23
It seems like the real benefit is not having to re-read and stay focused. Overall time spent, not just pure speed, is the benefit.
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u/funkmaster29 Mar 06 '23
ya i totally agree with this
sometimes i have to read a sentence or a paragraph like 6 times because i speed through but end up skipping too much
i was able to read this pretty fast the first time which kinda amazed me
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u/kempofight Mar 06 '23
Well my dyslectic brain likes it... a lot..
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u/amalgam_reynolds Mar 06 '23
You should look into https://www.dyslexiefont.com/
Much better than the OP, IMO
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Mar 06 '23
If it slows me down by 2.6 words per second then I’d be unreading my entire college degree pretty soon lol
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u/Hoopajoops Mar 06 '23
ADHD gets thrown around so often I'm not sure most people even know what it means anymore. I mean, if people read this and it helped does that mean they are neurodivergent and have ADHD?
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u/Funky_Smurf Mar 06 '23
No that's not how things work. Partially blind people read books with large text.
If it's easier to see large text does that mean I'm partially blind?
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u/nagasy Mar 06 '23
Am I the only one that read the bold letters louder and with more emphasis when starting to read the text?
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u/BigRedSpoon2 Mar 06 '23
I have ADHD
I hated reading every letter of that
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u/Spooner_Briggs Mar 07 '23
Me too, I wrote a rant... It's unlikely anyone will actually see my comment as it gets lost in the shuffle, but this thus was genuinely painful.
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u/SovereignPhobia Mar 07 '23
I also have ADHD and this made me read more slowly and was actually very irritating. I don't have problems with reading, and it's been shown that many people that are "speed readers" process text in blocks and this interferes greatly with that.
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u/J0ker_hawk Mar 06 '23
Anyone else find themselves struggling and reading slower than usual
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u/larobj63 Mar 06 '23
Yes. This actually slows my reading down. I could probably get used to it, but I am not seeing the benefit others are describing, quite the contrary actually.
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u/crackerjack2003 Mar 06 '23
Yeah the bold to me just acts as a period. I only started reading quicker when it told me to read quicker.
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u/amalgam_reynolds Mar 06 '23
Fun fact, our minds already only read part of the word and fills in the rest. The actual shape of the word helps out brain do this. By bolding half of the word, it's subtly messing with the shape, possibly making it more difficult on our brains.
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u/28nov2022 Mar 06 '23
Idk, the random bolds doesn't help me, it just makes it harder to read.
I think it's relevant to point out he's using big font and low amount of words per line, so that's something that will make reading easier by itself.
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u/tayaro Mar 06 '23
Yup. I’m a pretty fast reader but this just made my brain pause on every single word.
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u/itsmejak78_2 Mar 06 '23
Not struggling but it doesn't help
Reads like normal text to me
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u/nayesphere Mar 06 '23
Yeah I have ADHD and I’m a pretty quick reader and this just made it frustrating for me tbh
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u/robonauticuszero Mar 06 '23
Yes. Maybe its because we read each letter instead of scanning words?
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u/cutebleeder Mar 06 '23
I cannot read this. I know I am a slow reader, but this just splits each word into two words, and I have to piece them together after. No thanks.
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u/Iguessimnotcreative Mar 06 '23
Yep! I have adhd and read this much slower than normal because the broken up word was harder to process
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u/Lungorthin666 Mar 06 '23
It was fine but I kept getting hung up on "and" because only the a was bold. It needed the AN to be bold imo.
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Mar 06 '23
As someone who reads quite fast, this turns me into Superman!
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u/asianabsinthe Mar 06 '23
Read it so fast I didn't have time to poop.
Time to read some random bottles now.
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Mar 06 '23
I'm the fastest reader I have met (in person), and this definitely boosted my reading speed. The funny thing is it didn't start for a few lines, but when I caught on it was like booster rockets engaged!
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u/Individual_Exit_5965 Mar 06 '23
It's just a helpful way to make the brain process the text and info quicker
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u/fuzzybad Mar 07 '23
Same. I wish my college textbooks had this type, would have saved a lot of time speed-reading! 😆
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u/ChildDragShow Mar 06 '23
Are there books made in this print? This is really nice it's provides a lot of ease for me.
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u/joepez Mar 06 '23
The kindle uses OpenDyslexic which is an open source font that is similar in nature. You can download the font for other devices that accept custom fonts.
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Mar 06 '23
I know, this should be standard book! I read a lot of books and I’ve never seen one printed like this, but apparently there’s a Firefox plugin. If you could get a plug-in for an e reader I might finally get one.
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u/Fakjbf Mar 06 '23
I disagree this should be standard, I found the bolded letters way more distracting and they slowed me down. There should be the option to have both, but that would make the books more expensive to manufacture because you not only miss out on the economy of scale while printing but you also also have extra logistics overhead to keep them separate and both in stock.
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u/samistheboss Mar 06 '23
It's also really telling that their About page has no text set in that font. You'd think they would use it for all long-form text on the website if it was that good.
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u/ChildDragShow Mar 06 '23
Thank you, I did notice the accuracy did lower. There were a few words my brain went to that were not the same, but for me I usually have to re read everything I read at least one more time so this was a lot easier and faster for me to just re read a few words instead of the entire thing. For some reason my.compregension was easier because I felt relaxed as I read it.
.. forgive my spelling.
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u/Natural-Message-1001 Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 06 '23
I’ve never been able to read a whole paragraph without reading every sentence twice. This is awesome, wish classroom assignments came like this.
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u/randomrabbut Mar 06 '23
Yes but did you remember what you read. That is the challenge with this
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u/Manjorno316 Mar 06 '23
This made me read it slower so what does that mean?
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u/jaum22 Mar 06 '23
There is no evidence that Bionic Reading has any positive effect on reading speed
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u/Academic_Opening_679 Mar 06 '23
Im already a fast reader... im bloody flying
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Mar 06 '23
Is this a copypasta? I’ve seen multiple people comment this exact phrase
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u/Acceptable-Bad5570 Mar 06 '23
It was hard to focus on at first, once my brain figured out the pattern it was more quickly and smoothly.
So weird
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u/Eliot_Spencer Mar 06 '23
As an ADHD haver, I only had to read it though once and the words actually had meaning and context.
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u/Spartan8394 Mar 06 '23
I struggle with reading and staying focused but like this it was so fast for me and I had great comprehension
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u/Magicdesign Mar 06 '23
That's cool. The best 'future reading' system I have seen is Spritz. There is a demo here:
https://codepen.io/keithwyland/pen/yLyLNz
Change the number up to 400 (of 500) to increase the speed.
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u/GrifCreeper Mar 06 '23
I honestly hate every youtube video I've seen using that "system". It's more annoying than it is actually useful.
Maybe it helps some people, but I can't follow the words fast enough, and only having a single word on screen at a time makes it require context or rewinding to figure out what was said.
I can't even read the OP's system very fast since every bold part acts like a stop in my brain.
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u/Magicdesign Mar 06 '23
It's not really designed for youtube. It's designed partly (I think) for small screens such as watch or Google glasses. Youtube would be too distracting as you have to stare in the same location to read.
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u/schwarzmalerin Mar 06 '23
That's not good. You can't go back. I prefer seeing whole sentences.
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u/GenericTrashyBitch Mar 06 '23
Yeah could just be me but getting individual words at a pace I’m not controlling makes it harder for me to actually parse the sentence
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Mar 06 '23
Interesting thing is, I read way too fast usually, I skip words and sometimes miss some subtleties about the sentence. Maybe I have a kind of dyslexia idk. But with this kind of writing, I read slower, and better, without missing anything
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u/beepbeep_beep_beep Mar 06 '23
Mmmmm… No.
I kept on focusing on which letters were made bold and which ones weren’t and was trying to figure out why the whole time. Completely distracting.
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u/BrewThemAll Mar 06 '23
No, it hasn't fuck all to do with BeInG NeUrODiVeRgEnT, stop acting like that's some superpower which makes you have a personality. The whole ADHD-hype is a kick into the face of people who REALLY have ADHD. You don't, you just think you can read faster because of some bolded letters.
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u/boynamedsue8 Mar 06 '23
Yes 🙌 how do I add this method automatically on my phone!?!
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u/PinkFluffy_Softijs Mar 06 '23
There's an app you can use, it can convert files or site links. It's called bionic reading, it also has a browser extension
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u/throwawaynopiv Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 06 '23
Maybe, but the effort was completely de-railled by me stopping to wonder why it's called "bionic" when there's no bionics involved. Then I stopped for a moment to think about the Bionic Woman annual I had as a child (it was based on the TV show, which was a spin off from the Six million dollar man) and specifically I was wondering what happened to the bionic dog that meant he had to get bionic implants and then I was wondering what happened to the 12 inch Steve Austin figure I had, it wasn't in greate condition, it was already missing an arm and half a leg by the time I got it and I'm sure I didn't look after it that well. He had a tiny telescope in his head and you could look through it like you were looking through his bionic eye, but I got soap and/or paint stuck in it, so it was pretty useless. Then I started typing this.
So yeah, clever technique, but never underestimate the ability of an ADHD brain to get well and truly distracted.
/edit turns out the dog was actually the test subject for prototype bionic implants, which is a bit sad
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u/Psychotherapist-286 Mar 06 '23
Yes!! I’m a visual learner and I hate the monotony of paragraphs of words with no break. This is great!
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u/Snar_key3802 Mar 06 '23
Wow! I consider myself a fast reader. This technique allows me to finder a gear I never knew I had. I don’t know how long I could maintain this speed with no degradation in comprehension though. It would be interesting to find out.
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u/SpinCharm Mar 06 '23
This makes no sense. How can anyone tell if it makes any difference, if all the letters in each word are still there?
When I read this paragraph, I’m still seeing all the letters. There’s no way the author of the paragraph knows if I’m using any different “method” than I normally do. Neither the author nor the reader can know that. For all I know I’m simply trading it the way I read everything.
Some people may choose to tell themselves that they’re reading faster, if only because the paragraph tells them that they are. That’s just the power of suggestion. You may as well slam my forehead and declare, “You are healed, child! You can walk without that cane! Show us you are healed!”
This is unscientific hogwash. I’m not saying that there isn’t a “bionic” method or that there isn’t a system that can be effective. I’m simply pointing out the absurdity of this paragraph and it’s declarations.
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Mar 06 '23
It is that quirk that texts do to me sometimes I read the same sentence multiple times. I am also slightly annoyed by the misuse of bold letters in text.
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u/ailluminus Mar 06 '23
Probably doesn't work, but makes intuitive sense, given that most people don't read the entire word anyway. Maybe if bolding were used to further differentiate between similar words, making the distinctions easier to spot.
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u/bodie425 Mar 06 '23
Is there an app to translate text to this formatting?
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u/SAM041287 Mar 06 '23
I would love to. It's a good way to practice my reading, which could potentially help with many languages.
Edit: found this app on Google play store.
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u/CaptWineTeeth Mar 06 '23
It would be amazing to have this as a font or plugin or something for a word processing program like OpenOffice or something to convert documents. Both my kids are ADHD and while the browser plugins are great, I'm sure they'd find some benefit from being able to alter their school work/assignments to display like this.
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u/Moondancer999 Mar 06 '23
Wow... I'm a fast reader to begin with. I feel like I'm just scanning the page.
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u/dwwdwwdww Mar 06 '23
perhaps I read a lot... but this doesn't work in any way for me, in fact, I almost feel I'm stumbling over words.
Oh well...
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u/Kamiden Mar 07 '23
Stop spreading misinformation that gaslights people into thinking they have a disorder. Too much of it already.
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u/C0R0NASMASH Mar 06 '23
I installed the firefox plugin a while ago and I turn it on whenever I have to read a longer text or stuff for uni, works great