This Simple Trick Doubles Your Reading Speed 😳

The speaker, identified as Ron, offers practical speedreading advice centered on two main techniques. The first involves placing a finger beneath the words being read and forcing the eye to follow it. He explains that without this guide, the eye naturally bounces around the page in a phenomenon called visual regression — for example, re-reading parts of a sentence like 'the boy went to the store' multiple times without realizing it. Most people are unaware they do this because it happens so quickly, yet it significantly slows their reading pace.

Ron notes that when observing experienced speedreaders, you can see them moving their finger or hand across the page deliberately — this is the same technique in action. For those reading on a laptop or computer, the mouse cursor can serve the same purpose as a physical finger guide.

The second key technique is to avoid subvocalization — that is, saying or mentally pronouncing words while reading. Ron argues that if you're sounding out words internally, your reading speed is capped by how fast you can speak, not how fast your brain can process information. The average person reads approximately 200 words per minute, but by combining the finger-tracking method with reduced subvocalization and improved focus, most people can realistically double that rate.