Software speed reading has been around since computers became popular. One of the oldest and most famous programs is "EyeQ". It's big, expensive, takes a long time to become effective, but it works. The question is, how it compares to the "speed manual reading"? For someone who really wants to learn read speed is EyeQ worth the extra time and money?
The EyeQ speed reading program comes in two versions: the staff, and luxury. It seems that the only difference is that luxury can accommodate up to 10 different users. What this means is that each person can track their progress a little easier, looking personal letters and graphics as the regular program creates for them.
"Wow sure the deluxe edition looks great!" Could say. But when you realize it costs $ 100 more just for some extra cards, you may want to withdraw the statement.
"$ 100 more to What? "you may ask. Well, $ 100 plus $ 250 (actually $ 249.95, but whatever). For the rule that costs a quarter of a tail, and the full complement of luxury pizza that costs you $ 349.95. Needless to say, I have decided against buying any version, and stuck with the demo. I do not have that kind of budget for now. I have seen the full program of work, but I have not done enough of a thorough examination (and I have a full schedule of me), so I use the demo as a basis for the remainder of this review. The demo program has the most features enabled, so it must be accurate as a review of the entire program as well.
The solution to EyeQ speed reading works in two steps:
The first step is the formation of eye movement to facilitate the rapid movement around a page later. These drills are executed, the objects appear around the screen, and should continue with their eyes. As your ability eye movements before, you will be able to move their eyes faster and faster across the screen. There is also an exercise in peripheral vision, where they are told to look in the center of the screen as different forms expand and contract around the center. These eye exercises are effective in accelerating needed in several areas of reading – eye movement symbol recognition, and improved peripheral vision.
The second step is the practice of reading "blocks" of words. The program has several passages for you to read. To help move forward to reading whole pages at a time, the program displays only a certain number of words in a moment of page. Depending on the speed you select, the program displays only the words of a certain amount of time before moving to the next "block" of words. As you progress, the number of words displayed at one time increases, as your reading speed.
This all sounds very professional and efficient – And indeed it is. As far as I know, the program works very well.
However, the program is not really necessary for learning to read speed.
You do not need graphics, or training, or blocks of words flash on the screen. The exercises train to reading speed without saying how reading speed.
In other words, if you were told in detail what the program was trying to do, then you could train without even touching the program.
If I were to compare the "EyeQ" ($ 250 – $ 350) to "read speed manual ($ 12), the real differences in two areas. The first area is (of course) prices. EyeQ costs up to $ 338 more than the reading speed manual. The second area is time saved. The point of speed reading is to save time … all the other benefits really come from time savings. EyeQ asked to train nearly every day, and training usually takes one hour, but that depends on the amount you does. The reading speed manual needs to be read a couple of times before you understand everything. But once you understand the material, you can start reading speed immediately. And you will read all you want to read. You do not have to spend hours reading "The Wizard of Oz" and the rest of the training texts EyeQ.
EyeQ is a waste of time and money compared to manual reading speed.
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