Why We Should Learn to Read Faster
According to Tony Buzan, author of The Speed Reading Book, the human brain process a text better when we read more than 400 words per minute. When we read at slower pace, the brain gets bored and our mind goes elsewhere.
The average adult reads about 250 words per minute, and so have much to gain from speeding up.
I am a pretty fast reader, okay I won't be modest, a very fast reader, which I thought was a good thing, but one thing I needed to do on my first job out of college was teach myself how to read more slowly. I had to do a lot of typing and proofreading letters and I always made little errors that my bosses hated. I figured out that I read too fast, kind of skipping over words and reading a whole paragraph at once and I needed to retrain myself to read each and every little word so that I could catch the little errors. I'm still not great at that. But now I have two styles of reading.