Bionic Reading is a method of bolding certain letters in words that is purported to facilitate reading speed and comprehension. The idea is that guiding the eyes to focus on highlighted initial ...

A new generation of speed-reading apps have appeared over the past year, boldly advertizing that they can double, triple, even quadruple your reading speed. With names like Velocity, ReadQuick, Speed ...

Some speed-reading advocates claim that with proper training (outlined in many popular books and YouTube videos) or the use of special apps, it’s possible to increase your reading rate to 1,000 words ...

If you’ve been stuck in a book slump — or you’ve always struggled to sit still long enough to finish a chapter — you’re not alone. Between endless notifications, short-form content like TikTok and ...

An eye-tracking record of one reader: circles mark fixations, lines mark the saccades between them. From a 2005 speed-reading study at the Humanistlaboratoriet, Lund University. Image by Lucs-kho via ...

Put down Wordle. New brain-exercise-for-the-day just dropped. “Can you read 900 words per minute?” a viral post that has been doing the rounds on X, challenges. “Try it.” If you made it to 600 words ...