Show HN: Infinity App: Change your mind about Speed-reading techniques

Show HN: Infinity App: Change your mind about Speed-reading techniques(competicionmental.appspot.com)

3 points by Vernetit 8 years ago | 4 comments

downer67 8 years ago |

So, I'm able to recognize each individual word that cycles through the display, but I was unable to construct the narrative, and imagine the concepts conveyed. So I could verify that what I saw was a word, for each word shown to me, but lost all cognition of a prior word upon seeing the next word, leaving the words disconnected by a sort of partitioning amnesia induced by the processing overhead of word recognition.

I noticed that after I had failed to conceptualize the words, what my mind was doing when reading the raw source text from the input field, was it was referencing some of the text up front, and then performing a re-trace, after new information in subsequent sections and sentences.

This seems like a pretty important component, and highly dependent on the writer's style, and tone, which cannot be anticipated programmatically, thus, there doesn't seem to be a silver bullet rule for reading speed, universal to all passages of text.

Vernetit 8 years ago |

Source code: https://github.com/vernetit/Infinity

karmakaze 8 years ago |

Is this based on any research on speed reading?

I always thought that speed reading was non-linear with a kind of gestalt mechanic at work. This seems more like speed listening which is a 1D stream.

Vernetit 8 years ago | |

It is based in a competition called Speed-Memory a discipline called shapes and colors. With different velocities you can use different memorization techniques. For example First 6 shapes 1.7 seconds per shape you can use element associations (each element is image) example red square a missile white triangle ice cube (a missile explode in a ice cube) . Next two pass more quickly you use a iconic memory (only see the image). Next five (more quickly) you can use phonological loop (only say the name of the image) las two the most rapid passing figures you only see it as a photography of the shape) when the test finish you first respond the las two figures (that are in your eidetic memory) then the phonological loop and the others...

With this system you can use the different forms of mental processing of the mind.

Here the code of veolocity calculation equal to the speed-memory

count word is (0 to 14)

_n=velocity;

if(countWord>=3) _n = _n + _n * 0.2; if(countWord>=6 && countWord<9) _n = _n + _n * 0.4; if(countWord>=9 && countWord<12) _n = _n + _n * 0.6; if(countWord>=12 && countWord<14) _n = _n + _n * 0.8;

velocity=_n;

Thanks!