You can practice reading texts in one, two or three column saccade. I do not recommend going above 3 columns. Personally, if your computer allows, I recommend 3 saccades on 1000 px lines.
Multicolumn saccade formatter
Test yourself – psychological tests of IQ
More often than not our students ask themselves: what kind of person am I? Do I have a good memory? Do I think fast? Am I better at spatial IQ, verbal IQ or emotional IQ? Now you can test yourself free of charge using simple questionnaires compiled by some of the best psychologists online. Press …
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Rereading text
One of the misconceptions some of our students form is that rereading text is bad. It is true that rereading single words and sentences may be counter-productive, but there are several highly efficient methods to reread content. In fact we teach several methods during the course. Prereading Before actually reading the text we urge our …
Text understanding : udemy quiz #2
Try again the first reading exercise from the Udemy course, but this time take an extra effort to read the posts explaining the issues we were testing you for. [WpProQuiz 2]
Remembering long numbers
There are many ways of remembering long numbers. It is easier to remember words than numbers, so most of the methods I know replace numbers by words. For example, remember texts where the length of each word is a number. It takes practice to generate such texts. Use this app when out of ideas. Enter …
Visual marker creation
Open Mnemonc Dictionary. Think of an abstract word and a way of remembering the word. If no words comes to your mind, choose randomly from GRE word list. Now search the word in the dictionary. Try to pick up new tricks. Add your own tricks to the dictionary to help the community.
Visualization exercise
Instructions: Open google search and choose random image. Look at the image for 10 seconds. Close your eyes and try to visualize the image. Be accurate regarding number and position of details. Remember as many details as possible. Try to visualize the entire image. Combo of various fun images (Get pictures!) Low level visualization: toy cars (Get car!) Middle level …
Running text exercise
This exercise allows you to verify your reading speed. You enter your speed, your saccade size and your text – and the code runs the text for you. Please choose simple (fiction, unformatted) text of several hundred words for this exercise to work properly.
Tag cloud generation
Please insert here your paragraph to generate tag cloud. For each word in tag cloud you need to decide if it is a good marker: 1. Will this word remind you the details you want to remember? 2. Is this word specific enough? 3. Can you generate a good visual marker for this word? Please …
20 random images generator
Icons are the most simple versatile form of visual markers. I use some sort of icons to encode all abstract notions. One of Anna’s favourite exercise is remembering 20 images. The method requires 1. Chunking of the images into groups of 3-5 icons. Group by meaning or by colour or by association 2. Creating visual …
