Longing Read fasterTo enable more data from the text at a higher speed to overcome the cadence that the written word naturally imposes has always existed. Read more in less time, but without summary, Which transmits to another person the decision of what should be included in the synthesis and what should not. Here we are talking about reading the original, but respecting the preconditions of that time: everything but faster.

This is what aims at a new fashionable method of fast reading, called (perhaps very ambitiously) “bionic reading” and which, like previous methods, has sparked a debate: Do you really read faster? And if that happens: can we really record more information in less time?

This is an attempt: we are not talking about a classic diagonal question, or other alternatives that are closer over time and look more like screens, such as one that displays one word at a time with special letters in a different color. What are we talking about here The first letters of every word in the text are bold, Give the brain a reconstruction of speech and sentence; Theoretically, he would do it faster than we would read every letter of a word.

This is the claim behind the company that developed the bionic question, the idea of ​​Switzerland Renato Kazuti, type designer Those who have found this method have a quick reading path that is easy to implement on any site or text. In fact, his company offers a link where you can insert text to test the effectiveness of the system, which can even be configured to change the appearance of the text.

The developer promises an offer soon Extension for chrome, Which will allow the introduction of this system in the text of all visited sites. Although the official version has not yet been released, it is possible to use another similar tool as mentioned in Genbeta, which uses the system API to accurately perform bionic readings while visiting any site (the API is, in this case, a tool provided by Casutt , So that others can integrate the speed reading system outside of its creator’s site). The extension is on GitHub, showing how it can be added to Chrome.

The difference it has with other methods, of course, based on Kazut’s experience in this field, is the ability to distinguish between font usage, size, lines and characters, and even how many letters in each word stand out. To help speed up text reading.