Yeah, we spend much more time scanning across the page and finding the word than simply seeing it and processing it in our brain. When the words simply pop up in the same expected place, it's pretty incredible how fast our minds can process the words and make sense of them.
Yeah at lower rates in my head it sounded pretty robotic. I thought 500 was a little too fast. 400 seemed perfect for me.
(February 25, 2014 at 4:21 pm)Cato Wrote: I like it. I was a little worried about how choppy 250wpm was; I couldn't turn off my inner voice while reading. 500wpm was smooth so I'll look forward to this, particularly for reading from my phone.
Yeah at lower rates in my head it sounded pretty robotic. I thought 500 was a little too fast. 400 seemed perfect for me.