What I Learned From Speed Reading for a Week

I’m Shaams Nur, a 9th grader from Birmingham, Alabama. My goal during quarantine is to experiment with 15 study methods over the next 100 days.

Week 15 Day 6 — Speed Reading

This is the last weekly article of my 100 Days of Productivity project. It’s bittersweet seeing my first 100-day project come to an end, but I look forward to doing more of this type of project in the future.

This week, I studied with speed reading, which one of my readers suggested. The main benefit I found was that you could take in a ton of information within a small amount of time. On the other hand, if you read too fast, it might be difficult to comprehend anything you just read.

As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, I don’t like this method. Personally, I found it to be inconsistent and unreliable. In my opinion, there are so many other effective methods that can be used instead of speed reading.

For the next week or two, I won’t be writing as frequently. I’m planning on publishing a couple of big articles, some of which will be related to this project. Thank you so much for your support throughout my journey!

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