www.Shaks.ws is a web page that helps audience of all age to read faster with a better understanding of the text. This page will help you to:
-Decrease the sub vocalization.
-Increase the speed of reading capturing words faster.
-Increase the speed of the eyes in order to read a line faster.
-Eliminate the going back when reading.
But, what is the usefulness of speed reading?
The first impression is that will only help students to:
-Read faster any assignment.
-Do exams easily
-Develop better assignments, having time to read more material.
-Not only will increase the reading speed but will also increase the comprehension of any script.
But it also could help other people:
-TOEFL and IELTS exam: it is well known that one of the parts that people struggle more in this test is the reading part. The use of this program is more than logic for this part. But it also will help with the other parts. Knowing how to speed reading will allow you spend much less time on the question and more time thinking and elaborating a good answer.
-Reading long contracts: would not be wonderful get the paperwork done in less time. With speed reading is easier to understand what you have to fill and how you have to fill it, giving you more time to spend on other things.
-Financial Statements: It happened to me that once I had to read a financial statement of a company to know if I should or not invest on it. I did not know anything about the company, and there was a 50 pages document that could end on the trash leading to a bad decision. With speed reading you will get the important points fast making the task more easy.
-There is a lot more uses of this program, starting with the law and medical students and practitioners that have to read uncountable documents and articles that are very important for their careers.
Now, we have www.shaks.ws , but most of the people would wonder how to use this tool! here a preview on how to use this speed reading tool. First let me explain the different programs that could be found in this page and their usefulness:
1- Flash Reading: Perfect for improving the reading of online books, newspapers and texts. The text is broken into small group of words (called chunk) and flashed to the user. This is a good point to start because is the base of the other program.
2-Line Reading: flash reading is not possible for reading a paperback newspaper or book. For reading them is necessary to "flash reading" and to move the eyes as fast as possible through the page in order to speed reading. Line Reading is designed to train the eyes to move with more speed in order to help the user to utilize the flash reading in paper based documents. Remember not to move your head when reading, just your eyes.
The page offers a good tutorial of how to use this program (www.shaks.ws/tutorial.html ), and here we will discuss more in depth each part of the program.
Once we select which program we are going to use we see this bar:
This bar is intuitive given the following buttons of stop, play/pause and skip the next word. It also have new, for selecting new document to read and the speed refers on how many words per minute you read, giving you the possibility to increase or decrease this meanwhile reading.
My recommendation to get the best outcome is to use this program regularly for at least 2 to 4 weeks. I used the program to present the IELTS academic based, and what I did is:
1. First started with 200 wpm and most of the times I got 80 to 90% of the text, but always the principal ideas
2. For the first week I only use flash reading and every day I increased by 10 words. Also I read 3 readings that I found in newspapers like the advertiser, Australia today, Times and pages full of technical articles as university articles and sometimes wikipedia.
3. In the first weed I was reading at 350 words per minute (a 75% more than before) so I decided to start the line reading program. Starting with 3 words I practice on the same basis.
4. By the second week I found myself reading at 450 words per minute, which is awesome.
This program will rely mainly on your commitment to used constantly for some days, and you will find that suddenly you are reading 125% faster (as me) than before in two weeks. Hope this is useful and enjoy it.
Steve
