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speed-reading

speed-reading

1 4.4
Reading text much faster than usual while still understanding it
  • noun
  • /spiːd ˈriːdɪŋ/
translation icon : lectura rápida
  • Many students take a speed-reading course to improve their reading efficiency.
  • engage in speed-reading
  • measure of speed-reading

One of the most useful things I've ever done was take a speed reading course.

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Examples

  • And it was all the tactics that I teach on focus on memory, on speed reading, on critical thinking skills, on study skills.

  • I think it's already close, fairly close to optimal, which is why speed reading, for instance, does not work.

  • And for those who were speed reading, the article states that Mexico has an advantage of lower sugar prices.

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  • In speed reading, I missed any mention of the hurt finger on his throwing hand during those two bad games that he had.

    Blog text (17)
  • Now we have an online speed-reading course, and it's much more popular!

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  • I applied your speed reading techniques, which, as many have pointed out, was just skimming, but let's not get into that.

  • If I had to start over, I would start with an online product offering and then move toward in-person speed-reading classes.

    Blog text (20)
  • DL: Imagine a business was started to help people find information in online documents, and to do this, they trained people to be good at speed reading.

    Blog text (9)
  • The directions of most CBM-R vendors clearly require the examiner to monitor student reading so they stop and remind students that this is an assessment of their best reading and not speed reading.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The 115 items selected finally covered a broad spectrum of attributes ranging from those typically appearing in management behavior checklists to such areas as work habits, ethics, speed reading, personal financial planning, etc.

    Academic text (1990)

How Fast

speed-reading
1 4.4
skimming
1 2.9
reading
228 1.0

Surface Forms

speed-reading singular

Morphology

speed-reading = speed + reading (transparent) = speed + read + ing

The meaning is directly derivable from the components 'speed' + 'reading' (reading performed at high speed).

Etymology

Speed-reading is made from speed ('quickness') and reading ('looking at words'), so it literally means 'reading quickly'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture your eyes moving fast over a page, like a car passing at high speed.