When you superread, you don't read all the words. You go straight down the center of the page, only reading
those words, and even then, you don't necessarily have to read them, you just have to
see them. With practice, you'll get "a gut feeling" to dip, and that's when you start reading. The time you save comes from not reading all the text.
When you rapid read, you're basically speedreading. The difference is with speedreading your speed is steady - the same speed through easy text and hard text. With rapid reading, it varies with your gut feeling of when to go faster and when to go slower, so you burn through the easy parts and slow down a little on the dense stuff.
I guess you could say I mastered it, and once you do, you play around with the steps a little. For example, I don't incubate anymore, I don't preview (post view instead), and I photoflip instead of photoread page by page. Also, instead of a mindmap I take notes in the book itself.
If you're just starting out, however, do all the steps until you have the system down, then start tweaking your own version of it.
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com
