Is reading speed a trainable skill?

[jennifer_bloom]

During my second time in university after years out of education, it took me over 9 hours to read around 110-160 pages

Then in 2020, 2 years after I finished my degree, I read around 930 pages in one day and it took around 15 hours to do

Then in 2023, after being out of school for 5 years, I have difficulty, even covering 30 pages in an hour.

[es20490446e]

My job is coding software, generally software that is too intricate for other people to code.

It's not that this software requires a high degree of skill to code, what it requires is discovering what needs to be done. And the process is so frustrating that 99% of people would quit.

The thing is that the speed I code, or how skilled I am at it, varies greatly. Sometimes I figure it out in seconds, others I need hole days for doing the simplest of the things.

The question is that whatever it is, I keep moving on. I don't take it personal if something gets extremely difficult for me, it's part of the job. I will figure it out.

I read that code slow, I don't care. I will accomplish it.

[TheorionMage]

In secondary school, my parents afforded me the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading course. It improved my words per minute rate by 30% however its kind of like speed dining. Your mind doesn't get to fully 'absorb' and savor the implications of many of the adjectives and adverbs.

You grasp most the rudiments but seldom the nuances. ;)

[WhitneySnow]

It is! I’m good at it. I taught myself.

[WhitneySnow]

Thanks for MHO

[LemiaOfThunder]

I think so

[rdubgaming]

Yes/no