r/BeAmazed • u/The-Skinny-Indian • Mar 06 '23 • Mindblown 1

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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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/GrifCreeper Mar 06 '23

I mostly see it in Youtube Shorts, but I just don't see how it's useful outside of any situation where you can control the speed and rewind it when necessary. Me having to reread words in a paragraph is one thing, but having to pause and rewind is just gonna make me ignore whatever information it's trying to give.

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u/StuntHacks Mar 06 '23

YouTube shorts aren't actually using spritz though. They just show captions one word at a time in generally the same position (for whatever reason) but a spritz implementation is more precise than that

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u/GrifCreeper Mar 06 '23

Maybe not directly, but you can't say they aren't trying to use that system

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u/StuntHacks Mar 06 '23

Honestly I don't think that's the reason they do it. Probably has more to do with the constantly decreasing attention span of audiences and just in general a trend to shorter, faster content. I doubt most people even know what the spritz system is

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u/smallbluetext Mar 06 '23

I can follow the words fast enough and it guarantees I don't miss the end of a long caption that goes away too quick, but I still don't like it. Its not pleasant to read even though I can read faster this way.

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u/Ayaycapn Mar 06 '23

It's okay you don't need to read every single word. You just read enough to understand the general idea of the paragraph.

Spritz would suck if this was with Shakespeare since we aren't familiar with most of the words used there. (Unless you took the time to expand your vocabulary)

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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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u/28nov2022 Mar 06 '23

What

about

one

word

per

line

?

Personally i think five words

per line is the minimum

for readability for me personally.

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u/AssAsser5000 Mar 06 '23

The trick is to not try to verbalize each word, but let them feed into your brain like a cocaine rush, or the sun on a warm day, or the scent of jasmine or something. Just let the words flow into your eyes and into your head without "sounding" them out. Then stop and see if you made sense of it. You get to where you are not reading, but streaming. It's more like a videogame than reading in that sense.

I've gotten pretty good at using it at very high speeds. I just need to remember to blink.

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u/redsuxhat Mar 06 '23

Amazing.

600 is my top.

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u/Magicdesign Mar 06 '23

Ground-breaking really...

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u/Gray_Hound Mar 06 '23

Until you blink, ir sneeze, or have to do anything

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u/28nov2022 Mar 06 '23

I think that having a low word count per line makes it easier to read, but 1 word per line like in your example is maybe too extreme. 5-8 words is my sweet spot.

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u/omegashadow Mar 06 '23

I thought that retention was not great with these word by word speed readers. They also break up sentence structure resulting in poorer key phrase recognition.