The Most Powerful Speed Reading Tip

Speed reading is a necessary skill for everyone, as it allows you to read faster, be more productive on your work and save time. For increasing your reading speed you have to learn speed reading techniques and there are many of them. If you search internet for " speed reading tips" then you can find a number of ideas how to change your reading techniques for reading faster.

It is true that speed reading is about many different methods and putting them all together to the reading process will give you maximum boost in reading speed. Still, one of the speed reading techniques is more important than the other ones. You may learn many different methods for speed reading, but if you do not apply the most important speed reading tip then your reading process will be still very inefficient.

When reading you have to always avoid backward eye movements. This is the basis of speed reading and that is the point where you should start to learn speed reading techniques. It is not so difficult to apply, but it needs regular practice. When I started with speed reading, it was the first thing I learned and it gave me a huge boost in reading speed. If you can handle this then you make a jump to the next level with your reading speed.

Moving your eyes backwards while reading is a habit that most of us suffer from. It means that we read some parts of the texts repetitively. It is not difficult to understand that reading some words or sentences twice will take more time if we read everything only once.

Why we are doing this? Well, no one has told as not to do so and most people even do not notice it nor think that it will make their reading process inefficient. We have been reading throughout the whole life in that way and have developed it into a habit. The main reason for doing it is that our brain is not used to get the information from the text with the first reading and we re-read some parts of the text to understand it better.

Actually our brain is capable of receiving information with the first reading, but it takes practice. If we start reading texts in a way that we make no backward eye movements then it forces our mind to concentrate more to the text and our brain starts working more efficiently.

So what can we do about it? How we can get rid of that habit. Although there have been developed many different methods for overcoming it the first thing is that you have to notice this problem and make it a goal for your self that you are going to change your reading habits . If you keep it in your mind that you will always read each word only once then you will start getting rid of that habit. Of course it will not happen overnight, but if you focus on it then you will be making fewer and fewer backward eye movements while reading.

To make your life easier I will give you another tip. Use a pencil or a fingertip while reading. For doing that point your fingertip or pencil to the left edge of the line you are reading. If you have completed reading a line then move your fingertip or pencil one line down, it helps you to remember, which line you are reading and you will not re-read the previously read lines.