![]() ![]() You can select reading material based on three difficulty levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced. I selected Flash training, which uses the RSVP method the app also complements that with scroll training, which displays a few lines of text at a fixed speed and then slowly increases the speed as time passes. Now that I had a starting point, I was ready to train myself to become a speed reader. According to the makers of the app, the average adult reads about 250 words per minute with a comprehension rate of 70 percent. To start out, I took a diagnostic test to see how many words I read per minute. More often than not, I had to tap on the screen several times before the app opened a reading selection, which got to be frustrating. Overall, the user interface is intuitive, but doesn’t always perform smoothly. There’s a free version and a $1.99 paid version that gets rid of advertisements and includes more reading material. ![]() The app is available for Android and iOS (where it’s called Speed Reading Tutor), and offers exercises to help you read faster and tools to monitor your progress. But I found that this often comes at the price of comprehension, so I’m not yet ready to adopt any of these apps as my main method of reading. They were interesting to try, and even helped me increase my reading speed. As the name suggests, Speed Reading Trainer is a training app to help you get used to RSVP and increase your reading rate, while Velocity allows you to import articles from around the Web and read them using RSVP. ![]()
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