What is Speed Reading?

Speed Reading is a ability get by increasing the eye and brain capacity, decreasing the reading barriers.

What is BlockReading's Speed Reading?
BlockReading's Speed Reading is an online freeware program for training some exercises of Speed Reading.

Two purposes of the program

1. From unordered eye movements


To ordered and fast eye movements




2. From small eye area


To big eye area

How to train?

How to train?
Firstly find out the speed and eye area that you can easily train the exercises. With a regular daily training increase these values (decrease for speed!) by a small step. After a while you will notice the improvement. Train a coup of minutes every day is better than train very dence and than give up.

What to do else?
You must also decrease the reading barriers such as read the word again, read aloud. And, there exist some exercises that could not be train with computer. You must learn from books or from an expert and train them.

Speed Reading can used by ones who known Spped Reading. Since I cant explain all details of Speed Reading I suggest you to read below books and/or take a Speed Reading course.

Books

You can learn about speed reading by below books.

Power Reading : The Best, Fastest, Easiest, Most Effective Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Ever Developed!

Speed Reading : Third Edition

Speed Reading Naturally (2nd Edition)

The Photoreading Whole Mind System

Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading & Learning Program

Exercises and screenshots - this part is under construction...

Exercise POINT;

Exercise WORD;

Exercise PYRAMID;

Exercise BLOCK;

Exercise TEXT;

Configuration

Exercise: Select the exercise that you want to train.

Type: Every exercise has more than one type. eg: order of points, the direction of text blocks.

Speed: Speed-frequency of the exercise. You must begin with a suitable value for your eye, and decrease a little the frequency after one-two training.

Duration: Duration of training in minutes. During the exercise you can exit with a mouse click.

Eye Area-Width: The number of characters that eye can read with one look.

Eye Area-Height: The number of lines that ey can read with one look.

Text Type: Source of words used in the training.
System texts are small texts in the aydos.net choosen by me.
User texts are text choosen by you and put in the system.
By Words of dictionaries, system used the word lists.
By Random characters, system make strings by small, capitals and numbers.

Font, Font Size, Bold: Configuration of the font.

Outer aera transparency: To focus on eye area, the transprency of out of this area can be configured.

Yellow Point: To focus on eye area, in the middle a yellow point displayed. Eye must see all of the area by looking to this point. Eye must not move inside the area.

Eye Health

Please take care about your eye health...
www.blockreading.com's programs have exercises tend to eyes. Plaese take care about below points about your eye health:

train exercises at a easy level

do not train extremely

train regularly and at intervals, only by this way next levels will become easy

do not look at the screen very closely

rest your eyes when they get tired

ask about to your doctor

Advantages of being a member

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Requirements

Macromedia Flash ® Player

Internet connection

Browser (Firefox, IE)

blockreading.com membership (optional)

Version History

v1.0 2006 02 01

» First version was released on aydos.net.

v2.0 2006 06 10

» Tracking was implemented
» Question counter, correct answer counter and timer were implemented