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I'm one of those who can, cool. Yeah, we read by the shapes of the word. You'll notice that in that paragraph shorter words are easier to read in a glance. The longer the word, the likelier it loses its word-shape, and becomes less readable.


that is crazy and i can't believe i read the whole thing - so interesting!


my kids tells me that everyone can read this, not only half the population. Aawanyy, I'm not srue I tlod you bfoere but I am a gaert fan of yuor bolg.

Elaine Wilson











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Another aspect is context and common vocabulary. We could read Tina's example quickly because the context remained the same throughout the paragraph and the words were not challenging. Rich's example above (which I can't read) has no context and it uses unusual (long) words.

Mary Richmond

Actually this is so old I learned it in a speedreading class in elementary school in the 1960's.....

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