es@sinix.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) (03/16/90)
In article <1620@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes: >In article <790@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>, jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes: >: Can you read text at 9600 baud? > >Not only do I read at 9600 baud, I used to spell check at 9600 baud. I >[.....] Without any showyness intended, I can back that at least to a certain amount. With some training, you can get used to read lines, even paragraphs as a whole (similarly as every adult reader reads words, not letters), thus highly in- creasing your reading speed. Reading a book that way, it's well possible to read 2 pages within 3 seconds (2000 cps or 16000 baud - no stop or parity). But, there is one important condition: the text m u s t n o t require any intellectual effort of comprehension. If so, your reading rate may drop down to one page per hour or even less (take a text of Husserl, for example). I don't know where the limits for fast reading are (there should be some). I achieved the above speed on reading entertaining literature in my native language (German). In English, it's hard for me to meet a quarter of it - even if the text doesn't touch the limits of my vocabulary. >-- >Kenneth Ng: Post office: NJIT - CCCC, Newark New Jersey 07102 regards, es
root@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) (03/20/90)
In article <1079@athen.sinix.UUCP>, es@sinix.UUCP (Dr. Sanio) writes: > >Not only do I read at 9600 baud, I used to spell check at 9600 baud. I : Without any showyness intended, I can back that at least to a certain amount. : With some training, you can get used to read lines, even paragraphs as a whole : (similarly as every adult reader reads words, not letters), thus highly in- : creasing your reading speed. Reading a book that way, it's well possible to : read 2 pages within 3 seconds (2000 cps or 16000 baud - no stop or parity). : : But, there is one important condition: the text m u s t n o t require any : intellectual effort of comprehension. Comprehension was relative. I comprehended general sentence structure amid the typesetting markups, but didn't really remember content. I wasn't examining the content of the text, just the text. Why I answered this with my reply was a comment I was told several years ago from the computer services people. "Why do you want to go faster than 300 baud? Nobody can read that fast."