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title: Speed Reading
description: This topic teaches techniques to increase reading speed while maintaining or improving comprehension. Learners will understand how to eliminate subvocalization, expand their peripheral vision, and use skimming and scanning strategies to process written information faster.
category: personal-development
subcategory: study-skills-and-learning
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/speed-reading
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# Speed Reading

This topic teaches techniques to increase reading speed while maintaining or improving comprehension. Learners will understand how to eliminate subvocalization, expand their peripheral vision, and use skimming and scanning strategies to process written information faster.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Spreeder

Web app from eReflect for practising RSVP-style reading: paste or upload text, set words per minute and chunk size, and read from a fixed focal point. Useful for training reading pace, though comprehension tends to drop at very high speeds.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.spreeder.com/app.php

**Tags:** speed-reading, rsvp, reading-tools, reading-practice

### 2. irisreading.com

Iris Reading is a training platform offering speed-reading techniques and comprehension improvement, with courses, workshops, ebooks, and articles to help you read faster and understand more.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://irisreading.com

**Tags:** websites, personal-development, study-skills-learning

### 3. mindtools.com

Mind Tools offers practical business and management resources—articles, templates, checklists, and self-assessments—covering business communication, leadership, teamwork, meetings, and professional writing.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://mindtools.com

**Tags:** websites, business-entrepreneurship, business-fundamentals

## Books

### 1. Breakthrough Rapid Reading

**Author:** Peter Kump

Self-paced training program by a former Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics education director, using hand-pacing drills, timed exercises and comprehension checks to help readers increase speed on nonfiction, adjust pace to the material, and preview or skim texts purposefully.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/073520019X?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, personal-development, study-skills-learning

### 2. The Speed Reading Book

**Author:** Tony Buzan

BBC-published workbook combining eye-movement and guiding exercises, timed reading tests and the author's Mind Map note-taking method, aimed at helping readers track their words per minute, reduce back-skipping and subvocalisation, and organise what they retain from longer texts.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0563537310?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, personal-development, study-skills-learning

### 3. 10 Days to Faster Reading

**Author:** Abby Marks-Beale, The Princeton Language Institute

Short ten-lesson workbook with a baseline reading test, daily exercises and comprehension quizzes, covering habits such as regression and subvocalisation, previewing, key-word reading and adjusting speed to purpose, so readers can measure and improve everyday reading efficiency.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0446676675?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, personal-development, study-skills-learning

## Courses

### 1. Learning How to Learn

Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski explain focused and diffuse thinking, procrastination, sleep, and memory techniques across three short modules. Students come away able to apply recall practice, chunking, and memory palaces to their own homework and exams.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn-youth

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, cognitive-science

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