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Speed-reading being an important tool today to cope up with the rat race has major records by people who read around 350 words per minute with complete understanding. Most commercial courses, however, claim that they can improve and increase your reading skills with total comprehension to about a thousand words a minute.

However, these claims are valid only if the user of the course keeps practicing the course even after the completion. However, most courses differ and even present conflicting views as to why and how courses should be taken up for speed-reading. Many brands also claim that they can improve your reading rate to about two to three times of your original rate. These claims are grounded on a bigger claim- you will not lose your ability of comprehension skill. However, all these companies come to a consensus when it comes to sub-vocalizing. They have different methods of applications. Some claim that sub-vocalization is the main obstacle to gaining speed in reading. Others claim that sub-vocalization comprises of two levels. Sub-vocalization, applied to the key words help in learning faster and speeding up reading.

There is the second component that is an obstacle to speed-reading. Some courses pay more heed to comprehension above reading and claim that fast comprehension improves reading speed. Other courses suggest that once you start reading fast, comprehending fast comes easily. While some provide questionnaires other say it is irrelevant and not worth, following which they ignore it totally. Certain courses say that all material should be related to the course and all information does not need to be covered.

As is usual, people do read mostly skipping words and skimming out relevant details. Promoters of speed-reading claim that text is processed but most of them are sub consciously done so. Experts claim that information should be more systematically and rather than being haphazard. Sub-vocalizations and vision spans are also used as explanations of ways to improve your reading skills. However, research effects of these terms are not presented to the students in the course material as obvious.

A course is not really essential but is not a bad idea either.

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