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By Camille Rodriquez

Learning to read more efficiently without sacrificing comprehension is a time-saving essential skill to develop. One particular area to target is visual obstacles. These include visual regression, deceleration, and scattering to name a few. Simple tricks will take care of these issues and help your reading time to become more productive, profitable, and enjoyable.

Visual regression is reading the same words over and over again in the sentence or paragraph. In part, this is because you were not paying attention, and you were not aware of the purpose for your reading. Another reason is that you were not pointed and focused. You may vaguely remember the subject, but not the content. Your eyes were too busy backing up and redoing what you already did.

Visual deceleration is similar. It occurs when you slow down to read something again because it was interesting or entertaining, and you lose focus on where you were going with the assignment. Often with visual deceleration, our minds wander off into unrelated thoughts. Before we know it, we’ve lost time getting sidetracked and not reading.

The final eye pattern worth mentioning is visual scattering. This is when your eyes jump all over the page while reading. Clearly, this hinders comprehension because you read out of order and miss the author’s sequential presentation of the points. This quenches the passion for any reading assignment because you never really “get it” in the first place.

In order to combat visual regression, deceleration, and scattering, you must employ some strategies. The easiest trick is to use your hands while reading. You may have to get used to that feeling again, but using your hands to point the eye will keep your vision targeting the right text as you read.

Along those same lines, you must think of your hands as the metronome for your reading. Move your hands at a constant speed and train the eyes to follow. They set the pace and should be held to a consistent, forward direction.

If you use pointing and pacing consistently you will find your tendencies to be visually distracted while reading all but eliminated. This allows your brain to stay focused on the content of what you are reading, and your comprehension can increase as well as your speed! Simple but effective – and by the way, if you are reading on a computer, use your mouse as your hand!