I recently stumbled across this really cool, geeky tool for practicing speed reading, and thought it would be a great share with all of my fellow geeks.

About Spreeder

Spreeder is an online speed reading utility to help train you to read faster. It does this by flashing words at a rapid rate, which helps in three ways:

1. Reduce subvocalization
2. Increase chunk comprehension
3. Eliminate backreading

You can read more about it and access a tutorial here.

How to Use Spreeder

The Spreeder website is super simple and at first glance, it may not be clear exactly what you should be doing, so here’s a really easy rundown:

• Go to www.spreeder.com.
• Paste any text that you want to use for your practice in the box on the screen and click spreed!

Once you get the hang of how it works, you can play around with the settings:

From the settings menu, you can change things like how many words per minute are flashed, the chunk size (number of words flashed at a given time), and background color.

The background color was a biggie for me — for some reason, I thought the black text on white was brutal. I changed my settings so the text was a dark gray and the background a lighter gray. Much easier on my eyes!

There is also an advanced settings option that lets you change things like speed variability, pauses, skipping “stopwords,” etc.

It’s a really cool tool for anyone who wants to learn how to read faster (and become more productive in the process). Oh, and did I mention that it’s free? Give it a try!

Written by Alyssa Gregory
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Owner of avertua, LLC, author of VA Secrets Revealed, founder of the Virtual Assistant Hub, blogger at the Small Business Idea Generator, and a whole bunch of other stuff!

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