How many of you have heard of Spritz yet? It’s a new development in speed reading.
I’m not sure how I feel about it. I can say that it worked I was able to read and keep up with the 500 wpm but I don’t know, something about it feels odd. I’m not sure how much I would enjoy this for pleasure reading as it feels very stressful or agitating having all the words fly at me like this. I’m curious to see what others think. Is this the next big innovation in reading?
I would love if they could develop a way for me to easily read textbooks and such for class like this. I briefly looked into learning how to speed read but nothing really seemed like a great idea.
This seems to work pretty well. I don’t know how they plan on incorporating it into everyday tasks though. Like, if I had a book I wanted to read how would I go about getting it into spritz? That I don’t know.
[quote]staystrong wrote:
I would love if they could develop a way for me to easily read textbooks and such for class like this. I briefly looked into learning how to speed read but nothing really seemed like a great idea.
This seems to work pretty well. I don’t know how they plan on incorporating it into everyday tasks though. Like, if I had a book I wanted to read how would I go about getting it into spritz? That I don’t know.[/quote]
I’m not certain but I would imagine it would work similar to the Kindle or Nook, where you purchase a Spritz version of what you want to read. I think I would use something like this for maybe articles or textbooks but I really can’t see myself wanting to do any pleasure reading in this format.
[quote]BeefEater wrote:
[quote]staystrong wrote:
I would love if they could develop a way for me to easily read textbooks and such for class like this. I briefly looked into learning how to speed read but nothing really seemed like a great idea.
This seems to work pretty well. I don’t know how they plan on incorporating it into everyday tasks though. Like, if I had a book I wanted to read how would I go about getting it into spritz? That I don’t know.[/quote]
I’m not certain but I would imagine it would work similar to the Kindle or Nook, where you purchase a Spritz version of what you want to read. I think I would use something like this for maybe articles or textbooks but I really can’t see myself wanting to do any pleasure reading in this format.[/quote]
Same. I would like it for textbooks I think. Once I got used to it. But I like reading and like being able to relax and either slow down through parts, reread parts, or even skim parts that I don’t find very entertaining.
What are retention rates with these kinds of things? He stated a number of things in that article that I thought definitely applied, such as my eyes hopping around. I already can read an entire page of text only to stop and realize I have no idea what any of it said. That’s gotten better as I’ve certainly started to read more and more but I don’t know how Spritzing would compare.
I tried speed reading from a book and it just didn’t work.
I think everyone has a natural speed that’s hard to change. I mean I could run everywhere instead of walk and save time but fuck I’d be tired.
I read another article about this that had commentary by the people that made it which made a bit more sense.
It would be horrible for reading novels or any kind of pleasure reading as I definitely like to pause frequently and think about it. In the other article they also mentioned that when you read it it sounds autonomous in your head, whereas when you are reading a character dialogue in books you naturally put a slant to their voices and a cadence, so in that respect you lose emotion. So I don’t think it will ever catch on for pleasure reading but that’s not really what it’s for.
It can be used to read emails, news articles and things like that though which would be much more useful. Anything work related that you need to skim and not read in minute detail would also be good. So I can definitely see it catching on.
Its like the matrix helicopter manual upload. Ill pass.
Agree it wouldn’t be preferred for pleasure reading, but could be really good for reading articles and textbooks once you get used to it.
I couldn’t quite keep up with the 500 wpm though.
Bumping an old thread, since for some reason I started messing with some Spritz knock-offs today. (Ok, I was playing with an email client that had something like this built in, and it reminded me of this thread.)
If you use chrome (which, you should be anyway), there’s an easy-to-use plugin called “Spreed” which basically does the same thing.
If you’re willing to actually do a tiny bit more work, the better plugin is called “Readline”. This seems to be almost an exact clone of the way Spritz works. More work = select the text you want to read, then right click and select “Start readline”. You can change the speed with the up/down arrows, and you can play/pause with the space bar, and go forward and back using the arrows.
I especially like that you can change the speed in 10 WPM increments, so you can easily speed things up or slow things down if it’s just a bit too fast for you.
I tried a couple other tools, but those are the two I’d suggest starting with and/or just using.
It took me awhile to get the hang of it… but once I did, it actually seems to be a pretty useful tool. I’ve read some bits out of random books out of project gutenberg, as well as some blog posts and even tnation articles.
Spreed: SwiftRead - read faster, learn more - Chrome Web Store
Readline: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readline/hjbkmfadmomgaokjodomncmbgmmodona?hl=en
I can already read faster than 500 wpm if I want. I don’t really see the point in doing so.
[quote]LoRez wrote:
Bumping an old thread, since for some reason I started messing with some Spritz knock-offs today. (Ok, I was playing with an email client that had something like this built in, and it reminded me of this thread.)
If you use chrome (which, you should be anyway), there’s an easy-to-use plugin called “Spreed” which basically does the same thing.
If you’re willing to actually do a tiny bit more work, the better plugin is called “Readline”. This seems to be almost an exact clone of the way Spritz works. More work = select the text you want to read, then right click and select “Start readline”. You can change the speed with the up/down arrows, and you can play/pause with the space bar, and go forward and back using the arrows.
I especially like that you can change the speed in 10 WPM increments, so you can easily speed things up or slow things down if it’s just a bit too fast for you.
I tried a couple other tools, but those are the two I’d suggest starting with and/or just using.
It took me awhile to get the hang of it… but once I did, it actually seems to be a pretty useful tool. I’ve read some bits out of random books out of project gutenberg, as well as some blog posts and even tnation articles.
Spreed: SwiftRead - read faster, learn more - Chrome Web Store
Readline: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readline/hjbkmfadmomgaokjodomncmbgmmodona?hl=en
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Good find, I think I’ll try Readline as I like the idea of being able to adjust my reading speed in such low increments.
Oh, bother.
If you want to read faster, then read more often and get better at it.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
If you want to read faster, then read more often and get better at it. [/quote]
That is a dangerous route to take, because sometimes you read stuff, then it changes you and then what !?!
I find reading to be a dangerous activity that is best applied to state sanctioned textbooks, that way we are all on the same page, quite literally.
About 10 years ago, I found a book in a random public place. It had a sticker on it, explaining that it was part of some project to expand reading or something. You’re supposed to go to their webpage and enter your location, so they can track how it spread.
Seems like an OK concept, right? I can see someone picking up something like The Alchemist or The Autobiography of Benjamin Frankin in a random place and giving it a read.
But the book was on how to speed read… like that’s something that really needs to be spread or something. Needless to say, I didn’t pick up the book or go to their website. Cool story, bro.
[quote]1 Man Island wrote:
About 10 years ago, I found a book in a random public place. It had a sticker on it, explaining that it was part of some project to expand reading or something. You’re supposed to go to their webpage and enter your location, so they can track how it spread.
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I used to sit in some isolated place outside to do meditation stuff last summer. One day someone left a case full of old books where I used to sit. I think I picked 2-3 out of 20.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
If you want to read faster, then read more often and get better at it. [/quote]
You know, you’re right! Why try anything new?
Wow, very cool and interesting!