Last time I read one of these I got Rick Rolled- you won’t fool me again
AwehiSsO on
Surely this benefits everyone, neurodivergent or not?
TrailerParkFrench on
1. My mind is not blown.
2. I am neurodivergent.
3. Pretty sure the bold letters just slowed my reading – that’s really distracting.
4. I was reading whole words, not just letters in bold.
wiz_kamilita on
Ngl I read this hella fast tho 😂
sscdan on
This doesnt work at all. You read faster by quickly taking in the start and the end of words, this just throws you off that
Inevitably_Expired on
This makes me read twice as slow. lol.
n3w4cc01_1nt on
read it like the mocking SpongeBob voice so yes it did make me feel better in a sense but not because it’s claims were effective.
RossTheHuman on
Great. Now print books like this please.
Weak_Preference2463 on
Well I can’t read….
watchOS on
Didn’t work for me. I’m a slow reader, apparently, as I seem to read at the same rate I can speak (which is a fairly normal speed).
daveylacy on
Is this the same silliness as the “if first and last letter are correct the brain can read it faster…” thing?
gallanonim613 on
I read like this all the time
Arrow191 on
This is the boomer shit I see on Facebook
Dockdangler on
Actually it made me read it slower and was a pain in the ass. Not interesting at all, should be in mildly infuriating sub.
Andrewplays41 on
Oh yes making things up for reddit karma.
It is true that humans can read without every letter from the word but it’s definitely not based off the first couple, it’s based off the beginning and the end
This just fucks with my dyslexia
frank1934 on
AdCommercial6714 on
i got stuck on bold, thinking it was boid
Kemel90 on
now, please grant me the ability to write legibly as fast as i can think
hurtfulproduct on
But how much longer does it take to type? Unless there is a macro or something that does it for you (I assume there is) this would take forever to type.
But honestly I’d be curious if they could print books like this too
Bize97 on
I didn’t feel I read faster, but definitely less over whelming for a big piece of text. Maybe I grasped what i was reading faster, but I don’t think so because I missed words out without realising? Any case I like it for large bodies of text.
waater_bender on
In brazil there was a viral e-mail in the late 90s showing up the same thing. You unlocked a very old memmory of mine, op.
Anchovy1000 on
I read that way faster than I thought I would’ve before reading it
acomputertech2 on
TL;DR
WrenTheEgg on
i’ve always been a super fucking slow reader and haven’t ever been told i was neurodivergent or anything but this is like actual magic. it didn’t take me a minute and 3 tries to read that
SweatyTax4669 on
Good god that’s annoying to read
Ciavari on
Will write some code that does this to a scientific paper. Then Ill know whether it really helps.
Drfoxthefurry on
Doesn’t help if you are like me and say what I’m reading in my head
Green-Draw8688 on
It works better if you focus on first and last letters. It’s the middle letters your brain tends to fill in.
arthurtully on
Throw an unusual work in there and then tell me it’s faster
Free-Afternoon-2580 on
I suspect the reason why some people report it works is because it creates a novel stimulating task/purpose assigned with the task of reading. I’d be willing to bet the effect falls off over time as the novelty wears off
Wide-Replacement8532 on
It actually kind of worked for me. I would give it a try.
If there was an app that would take PDF documents and convert them into this kind of reading method, I would actually pay for it as long as there’s a one month trial.
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Last time I read one of these I got Rick Rolled- you won’t fool me again
Surely this benefits everyone, neurodivergent or not?
1. My mind is not blown.
2. I am neurodivergent.
3. Pretty sure the bold letters just slowed my reading – that’s really distracting.
4. I was reading whole words, not just letters in bold.
Ngl I read this hella fast tho 😂
This doesnt work at all. You read faster by quickly taking in the start and the end of words, this just throws you off that
This makes me read twice as slow. lol.
read it like the mocking SpongeBob voice so yes it did make me feel better in a sense but not because it’s claims were effective.
Great. Now print books like this please.
Well I can’t read….
Didn’t work for me. I’m a slow reader, apparently, as I seem to read at the same rate I can speak (which is a fairly normal speed).
Is this the same silliness as the “if first and last letter are correct the brain can read it faster…” thing?
I read like this all the time
This is the boomer shit I see on Facebook
Actually it made me read it slower and was a pain in the ass. Not interesting at all, should be in mildly infuriating sub.
Oh yes making things up for reddit karma.
It is true that humans can read without every letter from the word but it’s definitely not based off the first couple, it’s based off the beginning and the end
This just fucks with my dyslexia
i got stuck on bold, thinking it was boid
now, please grant me the ability to write legibly as fast as i can think
But how much longer does it take to type? Unless there is a macro or something that does it for you (I assume there is) this would take forever to type.
But honestly I’d be curious if they could print books like this too
I didn’t feel I read faster, but definitely less over whelming for a big piece of text. Maybe I grasped what i was reading faster, but I don’t think so because I missed words out without realising? Any case I like it for large bodies of text.
In brazil there was a viral e-mail in the late 90s showing up the same thing. You unlocked a very old memmory of mine, op.
I read that way faster than I thought I would’ve before reading it
TL;DR
i’ve always been a super fucking slow reader and haven’t ever been told i was neurodivergent or anything but this is like actual magic. it didn’t take me a minute and 3 tries to read that
Good god that’s annoying to read
Will write some code that does this to a scientific paper. Then Ill know whether it really helps.
Doesn’t help if you are like me and say what I’m reading in my head
It works better if you focus on first and last letters. It’s the middle letters your brain tends to fill in.
Throw an unusual work in there and then tell me it’s faster
I suspect the reason why some people report it works is because it creates a novel stimulating task/purpose assigned with the task of reading. I’d be willing to bet the effect falls off over time as the novelty wears off
It actually kind of worked for me. I would give it a try.
If there was an app that would take PDF documents and convert them into this kind of reading method, I would actually pay for it as long as there’s a one month trial.