In July 2007, six-time World Speed Reading Champion Anne Jones read the final Harry Potter novel in 47 minutes flat, whizzing through 4,200 words per minute. Most people read about 200 to 400 words ...

Having learned a speed reading technique when I was in college the approach of only reading one word at a time seems foolhardy. For the technique I was taught I run my hand at a 45 deg. angle across ...

Whether you struggle to focus while reading or have trouble retaining the content without having to stop every few minutes, being a slow reader can make many daily tasks feel daunting. If you want to ...

Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

Billionaire Bill Gates wishes that if he had one superpower, it would be the ability to read faster. Warren Buffet has claimed that he has “wasted ten years reading slowly.” Information is the most ...

Last July, a 63-year-old Anne Jones sat down in British bookstore and read Harper Lee’s 278-page “Go Set a Watchman” in 25 minutes and 11 seconds — an average pace of 11.1 pages per minute. A world ...

University of Central Florida researchers are part of a team that has found that there's no one-size-fits all approach to digital reading and that adjusting font style and size can increase reading ...

To address the fact that many of us are on the go and pressed for time, app developers have devised speed-reading software that eliminates the time we supposedly waste by moving our eyes as we read.