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ChristianKl comments on Open thread, Oct. 13 - Oct. 19, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 October 2014 09:20:50PM 2 points [-]

Reading technical material at 600 WPM would still be much faster than the average person.

Comment author: Sysice 13 October 2014 09:41:52PM 1 point [-]

True. I've always read things around that speed by default, though, so it's not related to speedreading techniques, and I don't know how to improve the average person's default speed.

Comment author: ChristianKl 13 October 2014 10:13:29PM 2 points [-]

True. I've always read things around that speed by default

"default" is a deceptive word. You probably didn't read at that speed when you where 10 years old. Somewhere along the lines you learned it. Given that you learned it and don't know how you learned it, there also no good reason to assume that you are at the maximum that's possible.