Read 💩 Faster

Speed read articles w/o compromising your comprehension

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Speed read articles w/o compromising your comprehension

7 followers

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Read 💩 Faster is a web app that allows you to drastically increase your WPM without compromising your reading comprehension. Rather than reading left-to-right, you're reading one word at a time as each word flashes on your screen.

Launch tags:Productivity•Writing•Books

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Holy shit, it actually works! I've tested and pasted a first news article I've found and actually managed to understand it quicker and with higher detail. This has a lot of potential -- maybe it'd be great to convert it to a browser plugin or an app which could transfer the text to read it that way?

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7yr ago

Is this the easter egg tho?

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7yr ago

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Maker

@tobiasz_jankowski Yep, definitely on the agenda. Will improve it more over the next few days :)

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7yr ago

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Maker

@tobiasz_jankowski bingo!

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7yr ago

It will be a good practice if you create an extension for browsers that will parse pages and help you read it.

Pros:

It really improves your reading speed

Cons:

It's harder to analize numbers and statistics then words that flashing before you.

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7yr ago

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Maker

Hey thanks for your feedback! I'll look into improving it over the next few days, I can see how it'd be useful. Definitely have been considering making a browser add-on as well :)

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7yr ago

@sakunacharige Looking forward to Chrome extension. :)

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7yr ago

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Maker

@wasim_ullah aaaand it's here! https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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7yr ago

@sakunacharige yayyyyyyyyyy!

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7yr ago

Can you use it with kindle. I have so many unread books. But I am a speed reader. Go figure. Could this work with kindle? Sometimes it takes the right tool.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@iamroguelondon I've never used a Kindle, so I'm not entirely well-versed on how they work :P. It might be able to work with it in the future, I'll keep working on it.

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7yr ago

@iamroguelondon @sakunacharige wow, yes, if you were to somehow integrate ebook compatibility with it, that would be amazing!

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7yr ago

Mocker

Nothing more

Pros:

Overall it's good, it seems I was really reading faster than usual

Cons:

My eyes became tired really quick. Can you do smth with it?

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7yr ago

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Maker

You can always click the pause button for a quick break :). It might be possible to add some sort of auto-pausing feature where you can configure when (after x amount of words read) to stop and resume (after x amount of seconds). Feel free to chip in with other ideas though.

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7yr ago

Very simple idea! What are you thinking of doing in terms of user research to validate some of the moves you made for this version??

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7yr ago

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@marcoafabrega Not sure I understand the question fully, but I came across an experiment that had users test their reading speeds--they'd read the same article as they would normally and they compared it to using this method, where they read each word individually. I just turned that concept into little app :)

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7yr ago

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Hey PH! First launch here. I saw a video while browsing Instagram a few months ago that demonstrated how our minds are able to read and process text faster when words are presented to us one-by-one rather than a blob (which would force us to move our eyes). From what I understood, the average person can read about 200 WPM with roughly 60% comprehension. But by using this technique, where you read text word-by-word instead of line-by-line, it's possible to increase your WPM without ever reducing your comprehension. I found this pretty interesting, so I made a simple web-app out of it (it's responsive so you can use your phones as well). You can currently configure your WPM and paste your own text. I've been using it to read through articles faster, but I figured that other people might benefit from this as well. At some point I'd like to add a feature where you'd be able to pull text from articles/books without having to copy/paste it (heck maybe even a browser add-on), but we'll see :) P.S. See if you can find the Easter egg ;)

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7yr ago

@sakunacharige what's the difference with spreeder? https://www.spreeder.com/app.php It is scientifically backed even the fact that this kind of reading decreases short and long term retention. Yes, you are able to understand what you read but you won't be able to remember it. There are other kinds of effective speed reading tecniques.

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7yr ago

@sakunacharige @luqa Luca you're right

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7yr ago

BedtimeStory.ai

@sakunacharige @luqa - wow what a pessimist comment. Speed reading at these levels is actually a great way to improve your overall reading capabilities. 300-700 words per minute is simple to achieve with the right tools, and only when you reach +2000 words per minute you'll lose comprehension, this is what is scientifically proven. You can check the works of Carver from 1992 and McNamara's findings on the subject (they are all disputing 25.000 words per minute) and as they should. We can't read at the speed of light and retain the information. Awesome work Sakun. Spreeder is also nice, but old and needs a refresh. A while back I played around a lot with the idea of a website plugin that would turn any article into a speed reading article with fine tune controls. I wanted to add character fixation similar to Spritz (https://www.spritz.com/) never got to implement it but it's still a little side project, would love to collaborate and make this into a better product. I'd be happy to chat, hit me up here or DM on twitters. Here is my demo of the speed reading, I named it Plato for fun. http://linusekenstam.com/plato/

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7yr ago

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@luqa @varun_omprakash Yeah I heard about Spreeder, it's nice but I felt the concept could be improved upon more + it feels outdated. As far as this form of reading causing you to lose long-term/short-term retention, that's probably if you increase your WPM to anything above ~1500+ words. Anything under that is reasonable and you probably won't lose any retention.

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7yr ago

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@luqa @linusekenstam Thank you! And that sounds like a pretty good idea; it's definitely something that could be really useful. I'm open to collaborating on it :)

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7yr ago