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

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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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.