Michael Frank: When I watch you read a book it looks funny to me because it looks like how I would imagine a blind person reading a picture if it were in braille. There are a lot of things that go into success and learning. So it’s not just reading, it’s comprehension, it’s understanding, its application, it’s remembering it when you need to use it, and being in the right state to use it properly. If it was everyone reading the book would get an A or ace the meeting, but they don’t. Nobody wants to just read faster because reading isn’t learning. They want understanding in less time so that they can actually use it when they need it. I care about the information I can get and use and I think that’s what people really want today. I don’t really care about the reading part. I didn’t get an A, but I finished a five month course including the exam in a little under eight hours with a B+ so I was happy with that. I finished it in 15 minutes and got a B+. I read the book four times and there was an AP test that was six hours long. Howard Berg: I can only give you stats from the standardized tests, but I got a 99th percentile in biology in the world on the GRE, I did a 5 month graduate course in educational psychology in seven hours. Michael Frank: What is your average reading speed, comprehension, and retention? However I remember things I read 40, 50 years ago, really, really well. Studies have shown that the average person reading retains 10 percent of what they read. The mode being the most commonly seen number is 200. The average person, you’re right, they read about 200 words a minute which is about how fast most people speak. The mode is 200 words per minute. That’s about half a page a minute, or two minutes to read one page, with 60 percent comprehension, I’m not sure the percentage of retention Michael Frank: The average adult reading speed, as I understand it, is about 200 words per minute. If you have a really small font on a really big page it has more words so you can read it faster. I know that’s a big difference but it depends on the size of the page and the font. Howard Berg: 25,000 to 35,000 words a minute. Michael Frank: What is your world record speed? How many words or pages per minute can you read? I’ve taught children as young as eight and eleven how to do this, and as old as eighty four, so to me it’s more exciting that I can teach it, than I can do it. And the good news is that I can teach you how to do it. Then I was like, gee, is it me? Or is this a learnable skill? And there’s a big difference between I can do it and you can do it. I finished the psych program in one year, and I took the graduate record exam in biology, which is like an SAT for graduate school, and I read forty-eight books on biochemistry, genetics, cell physiology and embryology in three nights, and I only got three questions wrong which put me in the 99th percentile in the world, I got an eight hundred. As I started learning about the brain, I got my reading speed up to eighty pages a minute and I retained it. I thought there has to be a way to learn things faster and easier and it turns out there was. ![]() They tell you what to learn, and why to learn, and what will happen if you don’t learn, but they don’t teach you: How to learn They said, you’re a junior, if you haven’t even done one psychology course, you’ll have to do the whole four year program in one year and take six science courses at the same time, and frankly you’re not smart enough.Īnd that’s when it hit me: They don’t teach learning in school. In my junior year, I got interested in the brain and how it works, so I said to the dean, I want to do two majors, biology and psychology. I was reading the theory of relativity when I was eight, by the time I was eleven I had college reading, and then I went to college at seventeen to study biology at the New York State University, Binghamton. So I spent a lot of time reading and I chose well. Gang kids would apparently rather be caught dead than in a library with books. However I found one safe place: The library. There were a lot of gangs and it was very, very violent. I lived in the projects in Brooklyn, which was not a great place to live. Michael Frank: How did you get on this path? How did you go from being a reader to a speed reader to the world’s fastest reader? Let’s begin: How Howard Berg became the world’s fastest reader
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