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that's how i 'speed read' (note: its not voluntary, i just do that naturally):

- i go through paragraphs very fast, condensing the content and getting the keywords in my head. I read and comprehend about 30% of the paragraph

- if it looks interesting my attention will be caught and ill start reading 100% of the words, rather slowly. in fact, i'll probably start from the beginning. Lot of lines, not much content? That will NOT catch my attention.

Of course, that also means i don't read 99% of the blog posts on HN that are more than a page long anyway. These tend to have a very VERY low content to amount of lines ratio.

I think I'll go even further: people get seduced by thinking they can get "smarter" by ingesting more content, and fall into the speed reading trap. Kinda sad.




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