I’m a slow reader. Always have been. When I read, I say every word aloud in my mind. I’ve been reading online that this “subvocalization” actually slows reading WAY down and doesn’t help with reading comprehension (once you know how to read). Is this true, and if so, how can I read without subvocalization? I’d like to become a better reader that can read books in weeks, not months. Thanks for any help!
In an active listening training I just did I learned people can process 500-600 words per minute but human speech is only about 150 wpm, which is why we tend to “drift off” and think about other things while people are talking to us. I feel like that definitely supports the theory that we can read faster with no loss in comprehension without subvocalization. There was an app I used to use that helped you practice it, I think it was called Elevate.