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What the fuck. How could bolding half the word make me stutter in my own mind? This is absolutely unreadable. This gave me anxiety the moment i looked at it. This is like that one paragraph that talks about the letters being rearranged. Complete gibberish.

I can read it twice as fast and remember less than half of it.

My reading speed was never the problem. It's the reading comprehension and memory that limits me.

I kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.

Wow. Web sites should have this option.

to be honest, it might be just me but i find this even more oberwhelming. its like the text is saying "THINK FAST, READ FAST GO GO GO GO" and yeah idk its more overwhelming

This appears to operate on the same speed-reading technique of “read only the spaces.”

It’s considered a beginner technique because although faster methods can be learned, this method can be used by many/most readers on their very first try.

Edit: also I’m not sure it has anything to do with neurodivergence.

I've found with this type of text that if I try to read it normally, I struggle to process the change between the start and end of each word, and read much more slowly. If I try to read quickly though, it flows, as if I'm skimming the words but still understanding them properly.

It's a very strange feeling :)

Attention neurodivergent community - this bionic reading method is absolutely mind blowing. Your eyes scan the first bold letters and your brain center automatically completes the words. It lets you read twice as fast, is less overwhelming and helps you to stay focused. You will feel much more productive and a greater sense of achievement which will boost your confidence and makes you overall feel more positive. Let me know in the comments if this bionic reading method works for you.

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This really doesn't feel like an ADHD exclusive thing.

I love this in principle but I can’t use it myself. I‘m a very fast reader by default, basically already doing what the highlighting tries to make you do, without it needing to be there. The highlighting disrupts that for me. I end up stopping at every word and partially jumping back and forth. I do show this to people on occasion that aren’t as lucky as me with their reading speed and most said it helped them. Not all though.

What about this is "bionic"? And what part of the brain is the "brain center"?

I thought too fast and now I'm sick

I'm skeptical about how much the bolding makes people read faster vs placebo of just telling people they should be reading faster. Also as other people stated, comprehension is what counts.

10's era WAOW!!! posting still survives!

I'm very skeptical, this text was easy, I need to look at a more difficult text using this. I don't think it would actually work

This reads like one of my brother’s brainrot videos being read by an AI.

Doesn't work

I hate it. Made me read twice as fast and use four times as much brainpower to comprehend it.

This picture is yelling half of every word at me

Book's Story e-reader supports this by the way:

This "tech" has been out for a while but I don't know that we can easily get it on our phones and computers for general reading :(.

Anyone know?

Damn, it actually works.

But how the hell does it work? How...fucking brain is still a mystery

I feel like you could take a piece of text and do this using python. I should try at some point.

You already read like this. After the first few weeks of you learning to read as a child you probably didn't read each word letter-by-letter already

Opposite effect for me. I read that much slower than my normal speed

I used to use a browser extension to do this, mostly liked it until I tried to convert all my ebooks to it as well. It’s works, but it technically splits the words into two objects in order to change the font, which makes searching the book nearly impossible because typing a whole word will no longer find instances of it, instead you have to search for either half. Only an issue for ebooks, but it sort of turned me off of using this in general. Also I believe it’s “technically” copyrighted. I remember encountering something that wanted me to pay to use this. I found alternatives, but still, just left a bad taste in my mouth even though it helped. It did help me naturally read faster even without it, because rather than directly processing each letter I can do a sort of exclusion based search of my vocabulary as I process each letter. After 2 or 3, sometimes 4 letters, and with context I can correctly assume the rest of the word and move on.

I'm not ADHD, but that particular passage using that particular font and those particular colors seemed to speed up my ability to read the text. But when Staments posted below (https://lemmy.zip/post/45655234/20636698) using what looks like the same methodology, it ended up being an impediment. I struggled to even get through the first sentence.

So I have to wonder if there's more to it than just randomly putting a character or few in bold at the start of each word -- like maybe it's also highly dependent on things like the font being use and making sure to use specific words and phrases that are conducive to this technique.

So what's the plugin to switch to this by default?

This also works with neurotypicals tho...

Reading this is like pointing an information machine gun on my brain and pulling the trigger. I read the first sentence faster and then the buffer overflows and I have to constantly stop reading or re-read stuff because the comprehension part of my brain cannot keep up. I feel like I naturally already kinda read like this, I don't read character for character but kinda skim words and know what it says. The image forces me to read in a very unnatural way because I cannot properly use the last part of the word for extra confidence in these predictions.

Hmm, this doesn't work for me, for some reason. I end up having to pause at the beginning of each word, like a child trying to sound out words while reading. It's not matching the flow and I feel like something is constantly off...

It helps me read faster, but IDK what effect it has on comprehension in a longer text. If I struggled to read I might be tempted to try it, but thankfully that's not one of my many issues.