Speed Reading Tip: Re-Read Old Books

Every week, our site posts a new speed reading technique that will effortlessly increase your reading speed by 10wpm.

If you use this tip, every 10 minutes you spend reading will get you 100 words ahead of anyone you’re competing with. Just think how much time that can save you in the long run… No matter how small, every little improvement is a big deal for speed readers.

This is hands-down one of the easiest speed reading techniques you could ever use, so you’ll have no problem implementing it. Here’s how it works!

Try practicing your speed reading on books that you’ve already read. It helps a lot if you can anticipate what’s going to happen in the text. Find a few books that you really like, and time yourself reading the book front to back. Set records and beat them!

When you lower the “comprehension demands” down to a very low level, you can concentrate more on reading quickly and efficiently (using some of the other tips you found on this site). In other words, re-reading old books makes it easier to speed read. As you get better and better at speed reading, you’ll be able to gradually increase the “load” on your comprehension, all the way up until you’re reading University-level textbooks at top speed!

There you go. Use that one simple trick, and you will easily strengthen your reading rate by 10 WPM.

Be sure to check here next week with technique. Before then, though, try to implement this trick: re-read your old books when practicing your speed reading skills.