Does Veeky Forums speed read? Or are you subvocalizing mongoloids?

Does Veeky Forums speed read? Or are you subvocalizing mongoloids?

How do I stop subvocalizing?

>speed reading
that's basically like playing a movie on fast forward with subtitles on and then claiming you watched it.

depends on what I'm reading. Just because you can speed read, doesn't mean it's the most enjoyable way to consume a particular book.

i'm a subvocalizing mongoloid

subvocalizing has its uses, when you're reading dense texts you absolutely need to slow yourself down.

I can blow through a ~300 page nonfiction or trashy genrefic book in about 3-4 hours of reading pretty easily but it takes me a few weeks to read most philosophy books that I take seriously.

Speed reading is a meme for self-important faggots (such as OP). If you speed read a work that's not a textbook or manual, kindly go hang yourself.

I enjoy what I read instead of blowing through it at breakneck speed

Speed Reading is disrespectful to an author, and to yourself.
Any respectable author, would smack you across the face for doing it.
The only favor you are doing for yourself is getting to put another dash in your diary, desu. "More books read, I'm such an intellectual. Mommy put my analysis on the fridge!"

I play the audiobook on my speakers and read along with it

This honestly; when I stopped giving a fuck about how many books I've read or how fast I'm reading them, I've started to enjoy reading a lot more.

I agree with you, to the extent that the author deserves respect. If it's just some shitty blog article, or some pop sci or self help book, then I'm speed reading right through it.

You are a pleb if you speed read.

I have all the good habits when reading but still I read reeeeally slow like 100 words per minute

But... it has been proved that without subvocalizing you lose part of the meaning... D:

Hey OP, that's a lot of KNAWLEDJ you seem to have here

Thanks my man ;) I read a book a day. This morning I read Plato's Republic

>I read a book a day
>show us what books he's reading
>it's all popsci/selfhelp/bestseller trash

Is there even a point in pretending that you're reading one of those books everyday? I would tell such a thing to no one, but maybe I'm just too self-aware.

>maybe I'm just too self-aware

He did say in his TEDx to try only reading headlines from newspapers and to try abstaining from sugar for a week among other memes to become an advertised meme of his own.

Speed reading is just a tool like many other "ways to read", not always relying on keywords and concepts but a method of contextualizing a structure of further offloading deeper meaning synthesis and interpretation to the unconscious. Pace and rythm on steroids if you will but that doesn't make it better by virtue of quantity of material absorbed.

Try speed reading poetry

nice digits

If I were to read Ulysses without subvocalizinf, how would I give them all Irish accents in my head?

What does subvocalizing mean?

He actually confessed in an interview that he only reads the backcover. Don't know which video.

When I read fast, I tend to skim on the descriptions. Treat them as fillers between dialogue or action, kinda skipping to the part when things move forward.

I picked up reading actual books lately, and one I just finished I read slowly and meaningfully, word after word, painting in my mind the image it showed me.
It might been because it wasn't book written in my mother language, made me focus more on meaning behind words or something.
All I know is that from now, if Im going to read for fun, thats the way Im going to do it.

It depends. I speed read news, web forums, simple non fiction books, etc.

I subvocalize difficult technical books and philosophy (because the speed I need to go to understand them is slower than subvocalization anyway) and usually but not always fiction (for enjoyment; mostly the dialogues).

I have to agree with this. Also speed-reading erotica is acceptable, actually preferable.

How do I learn to subvocalize? I can only comprehend when reading aloud :(

>try only reading headlines from newspapers
This is pretty good advice, anyway. Newspaper articles are always trash.

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pls answer me

Imagine how would it sound if you read it out loud.

Its talking to a sandwich.

Sounding out the words in your head as you read.

How do you imagine sound?

I'm not even memeing, when around other people I have to read in a whisper just loud enough for me to hear it, and hope that those around me can't hear it :(

I'll clear the situation for plebs real quick.
You either read aloud or you don't subvocalize. Subvocalizing is for plebs. Out loud is super patrician. Speedreading is efficient.

What do you hear when you have a thought? Your inner voice, right? That's what you use when you subvocalize.

And what's the difference between that and speedreading or whatever? I seriously don't understand these stupid differences guys. Must be an American thing...

Good one

I only speed-read stuff that doesn't deserve the time, such as this crap

Thanks.

I subvocalized and had to reread every full sentence in this thread 2-3 times in order for me to understand each one. All the words are familiar to me its just my brain can't be bothered to piece them together and give me the greater meaning quickly even if I focus hard. Sometimes I'll just hit a wall and reread the same few words in my head unable to recieve information from them, they're all so familiar I know each individual definition its just when the words are together my brain is so slow to comprehend
I think I might have something wrong with me, I used to be able to read for example Jack Higgins/Chris Ryan novels and finish them in one sitting years ago
What should I do to fix myself?

YMMV, but here's my suggestion. Try reading a little faster. Not "speed reading" but just pick up the pace a little bit. You should be focusing on chunks and phrases of words instead of individual words at a time. There's nothing wrong with subvocalization, so don't worry about that meme. In your mind, your inner voice should be reading the text at a normal conversational speed and tone (maybe slightly quicker).

I don't think anything can fully get rid of the occasionally inability to comprehend text, though. Sometimes I just can't concentrate for whatever reason. Make sure you're taking care of yourself. Do the obvious things: sleep, eat well, and exercise.

It's normal to form your thoughts as if it's a conversation to someone else right? I don't know how else you could have thoughts desu.

that's why humans are social animals, you think in conversations, which seems to be a missing part of AI research, they always think some computer is just going to magically start understanding language by itself in electric solitary confinement

>subvocalizing meme

wew feels 2011 man

Yes, user... yes.

just making sure i'm not a brainlet for doing so.

Only non fiction desu. It tends to be long-winded with plenty of sentences repeating what's already been said so I can fire up the old text to speech and skim through it without losing any of the meaning

>he speed reads Aristotle

Okay bro.

Not ancient stuff, but contemporary for sure

Don't subvocalize except for dialogue, but I still read slow as shit. I let my train of thought run wild if I'm reading for pleasure, so a lot of times I'll just stop and think and explore the connections my mind makes for a few minutes until I'm ready to continue. Sometimes I'll forget to stop reading while I'm thinking and then I have to go back and read that part again since it was basically background noise to my thoughts.