I read every word, and I don’t skim. I usually retain at the least 80% of what I read. I’m not sure how I do it, but I do.

I found out I read fast when I was at a sleepover, and I read three YA paperbacks in twenty minutes. My friends were shocked.

I don’t know how I do it- I just do. I look at a word and I know what it says as soon as I look at it.

I found this while searching on Google for other natural speed readers.

I´m not quite sure how I do it, either, but I think that I “chunk” phrases or lines. At my fastest, it takes me 1 or 2 glances to finish a single line, and I am essentially reading from top to bottom instead of left to right.

Of course, this is because I was a total geek for the first 18 years of my life (and still am to some degree). My biggest achievement was reading a translation of Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa, 1500) pages in 6 hours. I´ve always had this perverse desire to read through as many holy texts as possible in a single weekend (imagine finishing both Bible and the Quran within the same 48 hours!) but somehow never got around to it.

But one method is even simpler, can be done by anyone, and requires no special training or skills whatsoever. The method is, when reading, simply try to read faster. There was a study (sorry, I don’t have a link) that proved when a group of subjects was instructed to read something as fast as they could, they all did read faster than normal - and with the same comprehension. So in reading, as in so many other things, just put your mind to it and you can do it.