While some training requires high level of skill, other exercises may be started as soon as you want. What skills can you train right away?
Linking markers
Creating short stories that include given words is a very simple way to remember things. Practice linking markers exercise in several ways.
Level 1: Create stories with words
Level 2: Make visual animations, try to make them extremely fast
Level 3: Make the first and last words extremely vivid. Try to travel visualization backwords.
Level 4. Train with chunking. 4 words per chunk. Improve memorization speed x4!
Short-term visual memory
The more letter you can see and remember at once the faster you will read. This exercise trains both working memory and eye speed.
Level 1: Two letters, deduce one letter from other
Level 2: Try to remember all letters at once and then recreate them from memory
Level 3: Now use 4 letters. You cannot deduce anymore, need to remember everything
Level 4: Same thing, but with saccades and chunking. Divide the screen into quadrants
Sliding words
This exercise enhances visual angle and teaches saccades. When the speed increases you can no longer subvocalize and vocalization is suppress.
Level 1: 5 words per line, 250 wpm
Level 2: 5 words per line, 500 wpm
Level 3: 7 words per line, 700 wpm
Level 4: 11 words per line, 1000 wpm
These are 3 exercise you can do at any level of the course and you will not be bored or disappointed!
Level 1: Create stories
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Hi, I think it would be a nice idea if there is a direct link to the exercises you mentioned in this post. Thanks for the great articles in this site!
Thank you. This post is a bit outdated since we are switching to mobile apps.
Oh, may I know the name(s) of the mobile apps? Thanks!