Tech Fun- How Fast Can You Spreed?
Came across a great site that trains you to speed-read online, called spreednews.com
With the amount of information increasing so rapidly, it’s a good idea to learn to speed read and absorb information quickly.
Spreed is a free service that let’s you load all your favorite sites/news and blog feeds… great tool for those in a rush to get to work, or that need to keep up with the latest.
Here’s a bit about the technology from Spreed:
Spreed lets you choose from a wide array of news sources and have their articles read to you in small clusters of words.
Working from the principles that make for faster reading, you can scale the tool between 240 and 1500 words per minute, and set up an account to save your favorite sources—from Boing Boing to the New York Times and dozens more—for quick browsing.
Spreed offers a tally of the seconds you’ve saved from word-by-word reading, and offers an iPhone-optimized interface for speed reading while on commutes or trips. Spreed is free to use, requires a sign-up to save your feeds.
Our initial goal when we started Spreed was to let the computer do the heavy lifting of speed reading. We wanted to develop an algorithm and a reading interface that would be effective for most people.
No doubt Spreed demands that people challenge themselves to learn how to get through information faster.
We remain adamant that with a little (or in some cases a lot) of practice, we can help you read faster. When Spreed eventually catches on and is integrated with other content and technology providers, you’ll be able to let the computer do the ‘heavy lifting’ for all your digital reading.
You might even find an increase in your speed when reading conventionally. Recently, we had a few people say that they are now reading faster on paper since they started using Spreed.
Try it here – see how fast can you read… I can manage 800 WPM now.
Maybe someone could come up with a way to type this fast?
