Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Increase reading speed?

Hello,
I visited the Photoreading home page, and I readed that using the Photoreading techniques, I will increase my "normal reading" speed at least by three times. I'm already a speed reader, I can read about 3000 w.p.m with a good comprehension of the text (about 70/80% score). This means that with Photoreading I can increase my normal reading speed from 3000 w.p.m to 9000 w.p.m without losing comprehension?

I mean, since I'm already reading at a fast rate (3000 w.p.m means reading a book of about 400 pages in about one hour), what kind of benefit can I obtain from learning Photoreading?

TIA for the replies.

[This message has been edited by giadeen (edited April 13, 2002).]

For th most part.

With PR, you skip unimportant text, so you'd be reading only important parts at 3,000 wpm.

Throw in two passes, your comprehension should probably be pretty good.

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

Hey giadeen, take the course. I would like to hear the opinion of a moderate speed reader, after they have mastered the PR system.

Actually, a couple people here were pretty good speedreaders before PRing.

I took the Evelyn Woods course and was pretty successful with it, and Andy took a similar one as well.

On my part, I'd say it helped a lot, and when the reading isn't too dense I'm able to activate paragraphs at a time.

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

3,000 wpm is considered a moderate reading speed? wow, I was convinced to be a very high speed reader

Anyway, I'm going to take the seminar directly. PR seems really cool, and I want to learn it in the best way possible. I calculated that If I can combine PR + Speed Reading, I can obtain almost full comprehension of a book in something like one hour and something. after some practice, of course.

LOL, well I thought the top speed readers were in the 10,000 to 12,000 wpm. I know that several people in the speed reading course I took were doing 2,000 wpm by the end. So that's why I said moderate.

I know what you're thinking, or at least should be. Well I didn't do my practicing and sooooo I don't speed read.

A more pathetic factoid is that I haven't even finished listening to all the tapes. I won't tell you how long I've had them. You can just guess how much practicing I've done. :P

I come here to be motivated, but I should just use the time to finish the course, and do that all important regular practicing.

I was a natural 3000 wpm reader. No training nothing. TOO SLOW!!

The average reading speed is about 150 to 200 wpm (I may be wrong on the 200)

The problem is that when you reach speeds of about 8,000 wpm (speedreading) your comprehension plummets pretty fast. It gets to a point where you're better off reading a little slower.

The great thing with PRing is that it's all stored subconsciously, and when you activate it it increases your comprehension.

To be honest, most of the time (Andy still does this, I think) I just PR the material then ultra speed read it...it's technically rapid reading, but since I rapid read using techniques I learned in speedreading, my comprehension is still okay, plus my speed goes up.

I notice when I'm really calm and think gently, paragraphs at a time get activated. Last night I didn't even realize it, but as I was reading a medieval story called "Erec and Enide", I wasn't even reading...my eyes were going down the page and in my mind the movie version was playing...I stopped seeing the text as words, and the meaning of the words were directly being stored into my brain -- that cuts even more time out, because instead of going literature > read > brain deciphers meanings of words > brain understands, it went: literature > brain understands...

..it was pretty neat, but then I was like, "Hey, this is a pretty cool activatio session," and I lost it. I got excited and couldn't get it back. Maybe tonight =)

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

I was about 12 when I had that "gee I don't remember reading any of the words or even seeing them, but I remember what just happened".

bla bla bla.... just wasting post space. sorry.

I thought that 200 was slow that is what I am at now w/out PR not that it makes me fell any better. So when I start to PR I should be at 800wpm what happend to 25000 I would be satisfied with 5000 or am I wishing for to much.
Tallman