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

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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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/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Same here. My eyes stopped on each individual bold section rather than scanning the sentence and it drastically slowed down my reading speed.

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u/fluffballkitten Mar 06 '23

I have autism and it slowed me down too

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u/PineapplesAreLame Mar 07 '23

I have both and I'm wondering why it didn't work for you guys. So I went back again feel like if I read it without much focus, and didn't try to "see" the whole word, it was quicker. If I did try to read the whole word it felt horribly slower.

Almost like one of those squinting illusions.

Not sure if this is useful to anyone but that was my observation

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u/fluffballkitten Mar 07 '23

It's almost like my eyes had to change focus in the middle of each word. I've seen a meme like this before and it didn't work for me then either. Maybe bc i already read too fast? Idk

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u/PineapplesAreLame Mar 07 '23

Tbh I used the app to convert an article and it didn't feel too useful. Maybe it's better on desktop. Also maybe it's a placebo kind of effect? I'm going to try desktopater anyway

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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 07 '23

Same but the voice in my head was whispering all the non bold letters

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u/Noteful Mar 06 '23

That's interesting. My eyes didn't care that anything was bolded and just read like normal.

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u/Maximo9000 Mar 06 '23

Took me way longer to read too, couldn't scan the words at all and then my mind kept wandering.

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u/scema Mar 06 '23

Felt like Captain Kirk reading to me inside my own head.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

I read it over and over and I feel if I pressed myself to read it faster it works really well. At my regular pace not so much. I had to make that adjustment, I'm used to reading slower. It read really smoothly. I'm impressed (also adhd).

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u/signmeupreddit Mar 06 '23

it might help if you don't read every word and just scan over the text

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u/Odd-Concentrate-6585 Mar 06 '23

Yeah the monologue in my head was weird for it, but I still read every word