This is pretty cool - give it a try.

[89coupe]

Amazing how the brain works.

106396


Go to the site for a more clear font and try.

https://bionic-reading.com/

[suntan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OyIBuF73PQ

[birdman86]

I was skeptical but holy crap, that actually works. I wonder if there's a browser plugin for it.

[Ekliptix]

I burned through the second format 2x as quickly. Very cool.

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

I feel like an outlier. The second format took me longer, because some of the longer words I kept treating as two different words.

[shakalaka]

I can polish through both equally as fast. Speed reading FTW? :dunno:

[littledan]

Does that work if you read the oneon the right first?

[rage2]

I feel like an outlier. The second format took me longer, because some of the longer words I kept treating as two different words.
This. The right side totally breaks my speed reading.

[ExtraSlow]

I have a dyslexic kid. Always interested in tricks, this seems like it could be useful.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

This. The right side totally breaks my speed reading.

Same, the bolding completely screwed with me. Left side probably 3x faster than right side.

[birdman86]

I can polish through both equally as fast. Speed reading FTW? :dunno:

I'm guessing you don't have trouble focusing on the one on the left?

When I look at left it almost feels like my eyes are wobbling, words floating around, I just can't focus on any of it (so I kind of read with my peripheral vision if that makes sense) and this is why I have a hard time reading stuff on computers. But on the right I instantly fixate on the bolded parts and can speed read through it no problem and retain it too.

[JfuckinC]

im same with birdman, between my eyes and ADD i hate reading stuff on computers, right side helps to focus and keep my position but move through quicker.

[89coupe]

I posted a link to the site for a more clear font.

An image may not work best.

https://bionic-reading.com/

[bjstare]

This employs a similar principle to speed reading, doesn't it?

That would be an explanation of why it fucks w/ some people. It's trying to force the reader to speed read, and it may not be compatible with the way someone's already learned it. If the bolded letters are not the same letters (or groups of words) your brain normally isolates when you're speed reading, it takes more cycles to resolve what you're looking at.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

This employs a similar principle to speed reading, doesn't it?

That would be an explanation of why it fucks w/ some people. It's trying to force the reader to speed read, and it may not be compatible with the way someone's already learned it. If the bolded letters are not the same letters (or groups of words) your brain normally isolates when you're speed reading, it takes more cycles to resolve what you're looking at.

Yeah I think that's pretty much it. Those of us that already speed read are already doing the things it's trying to force you to do, so the bolding mechanism screws with our ingrained method.

[ThePenIsMightier]

So, would it be considered a thinly veiled brag to say "I read same speed"?

[Buster]

I can polish through both equally as fast. Speed reading FTW? :dunno:

we know how fast you can read it, but how much do you bill to read it?

[shakalaka]

Took me an hour to do the legal research behind the meaning of the words...so I guess my hourly rate of $400? :rofl:

[JfuckinC]

realistically speaking, how long/hard would it be for me to go back to school and become a lawyer? lol

[Buster]

realistically speaking, how long/hard would it be for me to go back to school and become a lawyer? lol

law and accounting are two excellent choices for education, even if you don't want to be a lawyer or an accountant long term as a career. The trick is to have the knowledge that a law/accounting education gives you, but the ability to not behave like a lawyer or accountant when it comes to business.

[firebane]

The bold text screws with my brain and causes me to pause and re-read a lot.

[bjstare]

realistically speaking, how long/hard would it be for me to go back to school and become a lawyer? lol

I know you aren't looking for an answer, but here it is anyways :rofl:

prep/register/take LSAT ~ 1yr (could be less, but many people take it more than once and it's not offered frequently)
Apply for schools/enroll ~1yr
School ~3yr
Article for mediocre money ~1yr
Write/called to bar, then another couple years before you actually start to make decent money.

Depending on who you talk to, the LSAT and schooling are either decently easy, or gruelling and difficult. I know a few engineers that have done law school and the common response is that the schooling is similar in demand to an engineering undergrad. One lawyer in my family said law school was a joke if you're creative with how you study and take exams (i.e., just employ learning methods that make sense to you, vs doing everything the traditional way of brute force completing all required reading, etc).

[ThePenIsMightier]

It's also worth mentioning that charge out rates for lawyers are sometimes excellent indicators of their compensation and very often a completely unrelated number.
I believe I've been charged >$200/hr for a Law Student who was making about $33/hr... YMMV. I think the $800/hr guy with his name on the side of the building is pulling in something far closer to that rate.

[suntan]

Our corporate lawyer charges $750/hr. That seems to be the going rate in Calgary for that sort of service. Employment lawyer charges same rate as well.

[ExtraSlow]

I swear we had this same discussion / argument about charge-out vs earnings for engineers as well.

[Swank]

^there are no duplicate discussions on Beyond, you must have dreamt it.

[Xtrema]

Is this a side effect of we being trained by autocomplete on smartphones the last 10 years?

[haggis88]

I rceall rdeanig taht the biarn is so poerwufl taht olny the frsit and lsat ltetres of the wrod need to be in the crrocet pitionos for it to mkae snese

[Rocket1k78]

Amazing how the brain works.

106396


Go to the site for a more clear font and try.

https://bionic-reading.com/

Pretty cool i must admit

[Disoblige]

I rceall rdeanig taht the biarn is so poerwufl taht olny the frsit and lsat ltetres of the wrod need to be in the crrocet pitionos for it to mkae snese
I was gonn mention this. I can speed read this ez.

[JRSC00LUDE]

I was gonn mention this. I can speed read this ez.

It's almost as ez as ezcarsandtrucks.com

[SKR]

I think the idea is neat. I wish I could bionic read the website, because currently it's stupid as fuck.

[legendboy]

I read pretty fast, my daughter does as well. The bolding really helps me remember more and go a bit faster!