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What the fuck. How could bolding half the word make me stutter in my own mind? This is absolutely unreadable. This gave me anxiety the moment i looked at it. This is like that one paragraph that talks about the letters being rearranged. Complete gibberish.
10’s era WAOW!!! posting still survives!
It’s actually because english is very redundant. Its a legibility thing.
This is absolutely gibberish. I have to solve a puzzle for every word. Yes, I can read it. The puzzles are compelling. I must solve each one even though i know what it is going to try and tell me. No, I cannot just read this.
to be honest, it might be just me but i find this even more oberwhelming. its like the text is saying “THINK FAST, READ FAST GO GO GO GO” and yeah idk its more overwhelming
Might be tho because i was a bit stressed out by meself when i wrote this comment, now if i relax i actually just read faster my point stands tho
What about this is “bionic”? And what part of the brain is the “brain center”?
What about this is “bionic”?
Try reading with this:
I’m skeptical about how much the bolding makes people read faster vs placebo of just telling people they should be reading faster. Also as other people stated, comprehension is what counts.
This really doesn’t feel like an ADHD exclusive thing.
I don’t think it’s supposed to be. I think it’s just supposed to be easier for people who don’t have the ADHD that lets them read a book cover to cover while calling deep vein thrombosis a punk ass bitch who wouldn’t dare
I thought too fast and now I’m sick
I picked up bullet journaling, writing down by hand in meetings, and the occasional journaling in my bullet journal.
It helps slow down that speeding brain of mine. Often speeding to nowhere, I find.
I kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.
Wow. Web sites should have this option.
There is a Firefox extension that does this. Or at least there used to be.
Yes please.
This appears to operate on the same speed-reading technique of “read only the spaces.”
It’s considered a beginner technique because although faster methods can be learned, this method can be used by many/most readers on their very first try.
Edit: also I’m not sure it has anything to do with neurodivergence.
Attention neurodivergent community - this bionic reading method is absolutely mind blowing. Your eyes scan the first bold letters and your brain center automatically completes the words. It lets you read twice as fast, is less overwhelming and helps you to stay focused. You will feel much more productive and a greater sense of achievement which will boost your confidence and makes you overall feel more positive. Let me know in the comments if this bionic reading method works for you.
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This one feels easier to read. Guess it doesn’t work for everybody, huh.
Doesn’t work
I’m very skeptical, this text was easy, I need to look at a more difficult text using this. I don’t think it would actually work
It would.
I used to use a browser extension to do this, mostly liked it until I tried to convert all my ebooks to it as well. It’s works, but it technically splits the words into two objects in order to change the font, which makes searching the book nearly impossible because typing a whole word will no longer find instances of it, instead you have to search for either half. Only an issue for ebooks, but it sort of turned me off of using this in general. Also I believe it’s “technically” copyrighted. I remember encountering something that wanted me to pay to use this. I found alternatives, but still, just left a bad taste in my mouth even though it helped. It did help me naturally read faster even without it, because rather than directly processing each letter I can do a sort of exclusion based search of my vocabulary as I process each letter. After 2 or 3, sometimes 4 letters, and with context I can correctly assume the rest of the word and move on.
