Does comprehension improve with RapidReaders higher speed?
The answer is, in clinical trials using standardized testing, comprehension was significantly improved in nearly 90% of subjects with the RapidReader method while enjoying multiplying normal reading speed. One reason is that moving your eyes slowly across a page introduces all sorts of “confounding” elements. First of all there are the innate distractions that occur because you are always thinking much faster than you are capable of reading. Your mind wanders to all sorts of irrelevant thoughts. Secondly, research has shown that if you see and understand the meaning of the word you comprehend it ( this is sometimes called “sight vocabulary” such as when you see the word “STOP” at an intersection, you know immediately what it means). Comprehension of sight vocabulary can occur at up to 1600 wpm!
