I have reached a point in my life where my reading speed is a problem. I can hardly skim through my textbooks in the time that it takes most people to read all the information we need to understand. Recently I have started trying to get into reading, I started slowly by reading graphic novels but have now moved into reading The Fellowship of the Rings.
Two of my friends did a test and found that where they could fully read a page and comprehend it in about a minute and some change, it took me 2 minutes and 25 seconds to read it.
I just want to get better at reading, so that I can enjoy reading more, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Best way to get better at anything is to simply do it more. If you’re finding it really difficult to improve, it may be that you have some underlying issue (like dyslexia) impacting your ability to read, but there are strategies to get around that.
As for studying, I recommend preparing your own flashcards–that exercise itself builds some understanding because you have to break down the concepts–and use them to help with things that you need to memorize. I always found writing things out from textbooks way more productive than just reading and re-reading the same passages over and over again. There’s some learning science behind that, about how you’re forced to engage more of your attention and process the information more thoroughly when writing it out than by simply reading it.