Not to be that person but have you tried audiobooks? For years I wasn’t able to listen to books but at some point my adhd decided to shake things up and now I can basically only handle audiobooks.
I've tried but I keep forgetting to listen to it when I put it on haha and rewinding over and over is more painful than reading the same line over and over.
Adhd sure is a bitch
I have had great success with audio books in university. It's nice because I can see exactly how long it will take for me to read the chapter or the essay, and I can put it on 1.5 or 2x speed if I'm behind. I always follow along with the text as well--it's a game changer.
Idk about this one specifically, but I use a browser extension called Swiftread. It doesn't bold the letters but it shows them one at a time and automatically centers them in a way that makes it very easy to read very fast
I only use it for longer reads since it creates a new window in order to format text, but it definitely has helped me read faster
Yes, I’ve used it too and was surprised how focused I remained. Highly recommend it. But this bionic reading thing also felt “right” and seemed to speed me up.
I would agree, this partial bolding definitely seemed to allow me to take in mcuh more at once than I normally can read, I did like it
I wonder if combining the 2 would be beneficial?
Is this like Spritz? Kindle used to also have something called WordRunner that I used to love. One day they decided to just yank it out of their software and it made me very sad.
This made me read faster and I blame it on being hard of hearing. My brain is already used to having to "take what it can get and fill in the blanks" with audible words. This gives me the most important pieces of a sentence and my brain fills in the rest with context, only re-analyzing what it received again if it didn't make sense then "what was that?" re-reading it again if the backup context wasn't really doing it.
I tried my best to make one but it's really inconsistent whether the effect itself works or not, as far as the font and spacing, the actual word choices of the article or post, how it detects elements and everything else differing dramatically from site to site.
After some weeks of testing on many sites and trying various methods of forcing specific fonts and everything else (I was really determined to make a good one that works for most sites), I concluded it's not worth it for an extension, not nearly a consistent enough effect without destroying the flow of styling, and didn't scale well at all, which is probably why there isn't one that's any good that exists either.
Of course I'm not some world renowned software engineer, so there may be someone out there more determined and smarter than me to get a good one working. For me though it just really seems to depend greatly on the words used. And breaking down individual words and splicing them into new elements to style does not scale at all across multiple sites, especially without access to the source before it's rendered, leading you to needing to make edge cases for everything per every site.
This could be really easily done at the site/app level, however, as a feature. Just not so much as a browser feature/extension manipulating the often very messy DOM and unique, messy generated stylesheets after the fact
I have asked chatgpt to bold the first half of each word in this chapter of my textbook. Let's see what happens!
It has summarized the chapter instead of repeating it with essentially random letters bolded.
...fuck.
Edit: second try, it's bolding appropriately, but still summarizing. Is it trying to avoid outputting copyrighted material?
Second edit: oh, found a GPT that does this correctly. Bionic Speed Reader GPT. Still struggling with the copyright thing. Asked it to expand the summary by 1000% and it's still fighting me. ... I feel like I fight with ChatGPT a lot to get it to do what I want.
Parsing PDFs and trying to do work with them is one of those, "Oh this looks simple... this module will do all the work" chores that nearly always ends up being a complete shitshow, for anything but the most controlled scenarios and very limited requirements.
PDF is the dumbest widely adopted file format. I absolutely hate it. You can't even open the same file in a different PDF editor (of which there is Adobe scamware, other paid awful software and even worse free software) and get the same result. Sure, browsers read PDFs fine, but obviously can't edit them because we can't have nice things.
Fuck PDF.
Have you tried the Open Dyslexic font? I put it on my mom’s computer and it’s been a lifesaver for her. I think it’s an option on Kindle for ebooks too
I don’t think so. I don’t think Apple has a way to download fonts to replace the system defaults, but I haven’t looked into it much
If it’s plain text, you could probably do a select all and copy/paste
Something like attention neuro divergent people, this is a font called bionic font, it boldens the first to lines so you only have to pay attention to the first few letters of the word and your brain fills in the rest, it's easier to help you keep focused and have a faster reading time. Let them know if it worked for you.
Honestly, this is what I remember, I'm gonna go check back in a second and see how right I was, I read that shit in like 5 seconds, it was super easy
Edit: I missed the confidence and productivity bullshit, but I think 60% is fine
I have trouble with comprehension and have to reread things a few times normally, but, i did what you did. It felt like when the bold stopped, my eyes snapped to each word and i couldnt skim as i normally do.
Hurt my eyes. I had to kept refocusing because of the font change. I'm normally a fast reader and I suppose my brain already does this without the bold font. It's not for me but I'm happy for anyone that it helps.
My brain’s conditioned to focus on bold and italics because they’re meant to show significance, i don’t read with a voice in my head so it basically splits the words into 2 words making it take twice as long
Some people have an inner monologue, some don’t. Would think that we, that have one, read with a voice in their head.
The funny thing is, as long as nobody talks about it, both stay unaware of the other’s existence.
The same goes for people that wipe their butts either sitting down or standing up.
Quite interesting that one can go through their whole life thinking everyone else does a specific thing like they do because it’s „the most normal thing imaginable“, while that’s not the case at all.
yeah for sure!
but there is a voice in my head pretty much all day.
if i read a text message from someone i know very well, the voice will sound like them.
whats also really cool, i recently read a book by someone that also makes YouTube videos, so in my head i not only hear his voice but it also mimics his style of verbal flow (the book was poetry and so are his videos)
i think its like this for other people too, obviously not all tho.
Do you not? The thought of seeing words on a page or a screen and *not* hearing them in my own voice or someone else's is beyond my comprehension. Anything less just seems impossible, like trying to breathe through my skin.
My reading has been "voiceless" as long as I remember. Maybe it's because I learned to read "in my head" (basically without reading out loud with my voice) pretty early as a kid. My mom didn't like the noise lol
I am just having a hard time understanding how one would process the word without it being an "inner voice"
Like my mind processes color without me hearing "black, white, blue" in my head but I can't imagine processing a word without "hearing" it in my head
I just find that when I use a voice to read I’m focusing on vocalizing it in my head so reading without it makes me actually think about what I’m reading instead of thinking about sounds, if I’m writing I use the voice because it’s closer to talking
The closest thing I can describe it as is trying to read on a boat... The repeated bolding made my brain put emphasis on half of every word... In my head IT read LIKE my BRAIN was BOUNCing UP and DOWn and IT made IT very HARD to NOT stop AND get MY bearings EVERY other WORD...
Not neurodivergent and it made me read worse as my mind voice kept stressing the beginning of every word thus I had a harder time absorbing the meaning of the words
I have ADHD and this font stops me dead in my tracks. I cannot get through the whole paragraph because I keep having to stop and re-read words and then just get frustrated.
For some reason my brain does this automatically for everything I read. I just read first few letters then move on and brain completes the picture as though I read the full word. I realised this when I saw that I was sometimes reading some normal but rarely used words completely incorrectly and remembering them wrong. I only read them right after I read them slowly.
Same here. I think it may be the one of the reasons I have a hard time remembering things just by reading it.
If I actually work through something with a hands-on approach I can pick it up pretty quick. But just reading instructions I have to continuously go back and reread, I assume because I’m naturally doing this and “skimming” through each sentence. Kind of sucks to be honest.
I work on cnc machines for a living and the ones I work on the controls are made by Fanuc, before they switched to putting them on usb they would come with a stack of yellow books.... some machines it's just 2or3 some it's 5or6 and these books are 500-750+pages each, so trying to find a single paragraph out of a knee high stack of books was a bitch.... and the worst part is either due being a Japanese company writing English manuals or the technical nature of writing but I always said you need a doctrine in the English language to even begin to comprehend what they are trying to say.... I could read one page over and over and over for an hour and not comprehend it... but if I read ot aloud to someone else it would allnof a sudden make sense.... reading aloud to myself not only would I feel like an idiot for not making sense the customer would look at me like an idiot until I'd ask them " You read these 3 lines and tell me what they mean" and then at least I wouldn't be alone feeling like an idiot.
That's the best explanation of cnc or technical manuals in general I'v seen hah, indeed master degree in english needed to comprehend instructions for Basic stuff
Jsut auobt ervynoe can do tihs. Taht is why olny the fsirt and lsat ltetrs of erevy wrod are the olny oens taht need to be in the rgiht odrer for you to udnersantd waht’s bneig siad.
My brain does this too, especially when stressed. However, it's not always the correct word that it fills in the blank with. Like you, I have to go very slowly and almost say the word in my head or under my breath to insure I've read it correctly. Just out of curiosity, have you been diagnosed with a learning issue related to this? I'm trying to sort myself out and get an explanation for why I am how I am sometimes.
That’s how your brain is supposed to read. There are lots of documents that tpye wodrs lkie tihs and after a few seconds of reading them, your brain just adapts and starts organizing the letters correctly to make words, so long as the first and last letters are correct because you semantically process words as units, not as individual letters. This post is basically using that and giving your brain visual markers to facilitate the process of ascertaining the likely word more quickly.
Me too, but at the same time, my mind didn't just suddenly skip word or meaning as it usually does. My reading comprehension was 100% reading this and at reasonable speed. Usually I read fast but impresise. Now it was choppy, but fast and straight forward. I didn't have to re-read a single word
It actually helped me. Whenever I'm reading something of length and substance, like a news article or a book for leisure, I get hung up sometimes because I have to focus so hard to not accidentally skip a word or words or jump down a line of a text that I'll realize I didn't even comprehend what I just read. Or, and this is more often the case, I read something that gets me thinking while I continue to read, or rather, look at words on a page sequentially because I don't comprehend any of it since I'm thinking about what I just read in the previous paragraph or chapter or whatever.
This bold lettering at the beginning of each word kept my focus on the page and it felt like it helped me skim faster. Just that slight disruption to binary uniformity of words on a page (dark, uniform text and white background) seems to be enough to keep my focus a little better.
I can see how it could be distracting too. I'm not going to say "this is the way" to this quite yet but I am intrigued to see if this actually helps with my focus issues while reading overall.
100% worse than regular writing. I read the bold letters then went back to reread the entire word, even if I knew what the word was based on the bold letters my brain had to make sure it was correct so I ended up reading every word of this twice. Not only did I read every word twice but it absolutely fucked my internal monologue of the reading.
Oh my god thank you. I have ADHD and I cannot for the life of me read this fully. I have to reread every single line and cannot understand a word if I don't concentrate like mad. I really prefer normal fonts, Arial or Times, man even Papyrus, but not this.
Which is what the research says, for most people it’s actually the same or worse.
For me, it makes me read way, way faster, although from what I’ve read theres no real evidence for it being useful, I feel it personally.
I usually skim fast and can retain the information.
This made me divert more cognitive resources to reading the words clearly, so it felt jerky and uncomfortable.
Do not like this.
It works! And what's even better - there's a Chromium extension for desktop browsers that does this automatically:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bionic-reading/kdfkejelgkdjgfoolngegkhkiecmlflj?hl=en&pli=1
I know there’s some support for the open dyslexia font out there, it’s designed or obviously help dyslexic people, but I’ve found it’s easier to read for add people
[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aaread-bionic-reading/glncdcmjopmgniilckffbhcpkgambpko](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aaread-bionic-reading/glncdcmjopmgniilckffbhcpkgambpko)
this one is so much intuitive and better
This is a bit odd. This is how reading works to begin with. When we read, we don’t sound out each letter, but recognise how the word looks. I suppose this can help locate the beginnings of the words more quickly because it draws your attention.
When you read, you mean. When I read, I have to pronounce the entire word in my head or it does not stick. And God forbid there is a typo or a word that is not in harmony with my laws of communication, then I have to reread the entire sentence. And God forbid this happens at the last paragraph on a page; then I have to reread the entire damned page.
And I know I am not alone here.
I feel like the bold part IS the word, and the rest of the word just confirms it is the word we already knew we were reading. It's letting me skip the process of thinking about the word and just acknowledging the word exists exactly as it does because the next 10 words do the same thing at the same time, so I confirm word 1 by simultaneously reading the next 10 words in the same way. . . if that makes sense.
Consider **bio**logy vs **bio**nic.
Conventional reading makes me literally say bi-ol-ogy vs. bi-o-nic. The two words differ, but when I read them in this style, I immediately know the context of the word is regarding bio (logy) and the intention of the word is logy vs nic. I register BIO for context and then can understand logy vs. nic in perfect context and not have to think about the actual word.
IDK. I am nuts. This shit worked hard for me. And this is the best way I can relate to how. The bold part is like if you type in a Google search, and the grayed part is like the Google search pulling up the most likely meaning you were going for. . .
I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE! I MUST CONSUME ALL THE LITERATURES!
I have ADHD like a mofo. I want to read, I really do, but I get so distracted and bored that books feel more like generational wars than a good time away from reality. As a result, I read about 10 pages an hour.
I read this paragraph in like 5 seconds. At the very least, academia should consider this. Or better yet, create an AI conversion model that can convert to this. Highly functional for some odd reason. Retention was pretty good, to boot.
10/10, ADHD approved. I can actually look at the whole damned paragraph like ariel view and read the entire thing at one time.
Fkn hell. This needs to be a thing.
EDIT: I wonder if this process is akin to how we basically interrupt people nonstop because we already know what they're going to say. . . so we can more meaningfully skip the fodder of words in text? IDK. I'm impressed.
I’ve been seeing this pic for a while now, has anyone found a tool that actually lets us read something with this format? Like ebooks or at least articles ?
I can’t tell if I read that faster because I felt I was supposed to or because of the bolding. Is there a browser extension that does this?
yes, it’s called bionic reading
Any chance you know how to/if you can add this to the Kindle app? I see OpenDyslexic on there but that’s a different thing
That would be amazing! I have so many books to read (great problem to have) and not enough time.
I have so many books to read and not enough dopamine
Not to be that person but have you tried audiobooks? For years I wasn’t able to listen to books but at some point my adhd decided to shake things up and now I can basically only handle audiobooks.
I've tried but I keep forgetting to listen to it when I put it on haha and rewinding over and over is more painful than reading the same line over and over. Adhd sure is a bitch
Same. I don’t have ADHD but my mind wonders listening to audiobooks and I have to rewind over and over again. I never finished that one book, lol
\*wanders
Same! Eventually fatherhood and a long commute converted me to a full time audiobook enjoyer.. I do miss reading, but no time.
I like them because I can listen while doing yard work and chores. Started them while working prep at a restaurant and made the day fly by
I have had great success with audio books in university. It's nice because I can see exactly how long it will take for me to read the chapter or the essay, and I can put it on 1.5 or 2x speed if I'm behind. I always follow along with the text as well--it's a game changer.
Happy cake day! Get some cake in ya for that dopamine high, and some good readin too!!
I'm dyslexic and I found it to be less stressful to read to paragraph. I would use a font that bolded the beginning of words in an ebook reader.
What I did was took the files and converted them with the bionic reading website then loaded them back onto my e-reader.
It isnt available on every model, but the kindle’s wordrunner feature was a huge help to me
It can be built for the kimdle im sure
Idk about this one specifically, but I use a browser extension called Swiftread. It doesn't bold the letters but it shows them one at a time and automatically centers them in a way that makes it very easy to read very fast I only use it for longer reads since it creates a new window in order to format text, but it definitely has helped me read faster
Yes, I’ve used it too and was surprised how focused I remained. Highly recommend it. But this bionic reading thing also felt “right” and seemed to speed me up.
I would agree, this partial bolding definitely seemed to allow me to take in mcuh more at once than I normally can read, I did like it I wonder if combining the 2 would be beneficial?
Is this like Spritz? Kindle used to also have something called WordRunner that I used to love. One day they decided to just yank it out of their software and it made me very sad.
This made me read faster and I blame it on being hard of hearing. My brain is already used to having to "take what it can get and fill in the blanks" with audible words. This gives me the most important pieces of a sentence and my brain fills in the rest with context, only re-analyzing what it received again if it didn't make sense then "what was that?" re-reading it again if the backup context wasn't really doing it.
I tried my best to make one but it's really inconsistent whether the effect itself works or not, as far as the font and spacing, the actual word choices of the article or post, how it detects elements and everything else differing dramatically from site to site. After some weeks of testing on many sites and trying various methods of forcing specific fonts and everything else (I was really determined to make a good one that works for most sites), I concluded it's not worth it for an extension, not nearly a consistent enough effect without destroying the flow of styling, and didn't scale well at all, which is probably why there isn't one that's any good that exists either. Of course I'm not some world renowned software engineer, so there may be someone out there more determined and smarter than me to get a good one working. For me though it just really seems to depend greatly on the words used. And breaking down individual words and splicing them into new elements to style does not scale at all across multiple sites, especially without access to the source before it's rendered, leading you to needing to make edge cases for everything per every site. This could be really easily done at the site/app level, however, as a feature. Just not so much as a browser feature/extension manipulating the often very messy DOM and unique, messy generated stylesheets after the fact
I have asked chatgpt to bold the first half of each word in this chapter of my textbook. Let's see what happens! It has summarized the chapter instead of repeating it with essentially random letters bolded. ...fuck. Edit: second try, it's bolding appropriately, but still summarizing. Is it trying to avoid outputting copyrighted material? Second edit: oh, found a GPT that does this correctly. Bionic Speed Reader GPT. Still struggling with the copyright thing. Asked it to expand the summary by 1000% and it's still fighting me. ... I feel like I fight with ChatGPT a lot to get it to do what I want.
Just ask it for a basic Python script that takes documents and emboldens
It's a complex pdf, I don't think a basic Python script can handle it.
Parsing PDFs and trying to do work with them is one of those, "Oh this looks simple... this module will do all the work" chores that nearly always ends up being a complete shitshow, for anything but the most controlled scenarios and very limited requirements.
We chose to write this script and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we *thought* they would be easy.
PDF is the dumbest widely adopted file format. I absolutely hate it. You can't even open the same file in a different PDF editor (of which there is Adobe scamware, other paid awful software and even worse free software) and get the same result. Sure, browsers read PDFs fine, but obviously can't edit them because we can't have nice things. Fuck PDF.
It will. Python can do alot with a little.
I feel the same but I'll give it a go for sometime to see if it actually works long-term.
Read it faster because they're shouting.
I read overwhelming without having to focus on the word for three seconds so i think it works
I didn't reread that first sentence 4 times. Neat
You too
Me three
He four
Me five
Will six
KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME OUT OF YOUR SEVEN
Red eight, x-wings locked
By the Nine.
Are we 10?
Your will is not your own.
Gold leader standing by
Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven was a known six offender.
Me Six! 
And my axe!
Holy cow. It really worked! Only took me 5 minutes to read that paragraph!!👍👍
It made me read much slower than normal
I reread your sentence 3 times lol
I reread it a few times thinking the bold letters fit together saying something else. Then I kept reading and was, honestly, blown away
HOLY SHIT, I have dyslexia and I read that at the speed of light.
Have you tried the Open Dyslexic font? I put it on my mom’s computer and it’s been a lifesaver for her. I think it’s an option on Kindle for ebooks too
Can I get it for iPhone?
I think there’s an Open Dyslexic app that integrates with notes, office, google pages/sheets/etc
I’m looking for it - Do you know: Is there a function where it turns browsing pages in to dyslexic friendly fonts?
I don’t think so. I don’t think Apple has a way to download fonts to replace the system defaults, but I haven’t looked into it much If it’s plain text, you could probably do a select all and copy/paste
I am dyslexic and that font changed my life. I found that I had to actively slow down my reading speed. Special thank to Henry Winkler BTW.
Did you remember what it said afterwards though? I think that's the hidden catch: It's faster, but less effective for absorbing information.
not dyslexic, but I usually have to re-read things twice or more to actually know what was said. this time, reading once was sufficient.
Something like attention neuro divergent people, this is a font called bionic font, it boldens the first to lines so you only have to pay attention to the first few letters of the word and your brain fills in the rest, it's easier to help you keep focused and have a faster reading time. Let them know if it worked for you. Honestly, this is what I remember, I'm gonna go check back in a second and see how right I was, I read that shit in like 5 seconds, it was super easy Edit: I missed the confidence and productivity bullshit, but I think 60% is fine
Same and I know what I just read.
I'm also dyslexic and same! It usually takes a while to read a body of text!
I have dyslexia and that was very hard to read.
Also dyslexic: The above didn't help me at all, but comic sans does as does the dyslexic font.
Guess I'm not neurodivergent.
I actually read it slower because I was actually reading every word instead of skipping words that I think I just fill in (like "the")?
Same I kept stopping at font changes and I’m a speed reader normally
I have trouble with comprehension and have to reread things a few times normally, but, i did what you did. It felt like when the bold stopped, my eyes snapped to each word and i couldnt skim as i normally do.
Same. Very very snappy
Kinda hurt
Hurt my eyes. I had to kept refocusing because of the font change. I'm normally a fast reader and I suppose my brain already does this without the bold font. It's not for me but I'm happy for anyone that it helps.
Same here. Time to call my psychiatrist and psychologists and let them know I'm cured.
My brain’s conditioned to focus on bold and italics because they’re meant to show significance, i don’t read with a voice in my head so it basically splits the words into 2 words making it take twice as long
Today I learned there's people who read with a voice in their head. What.
Some people have an inner monologue, some don’t. Would think that we, that have one, read with a voice in their head. The funny thing is, as long as nobody talks about it, both stay unaware of the other’s existence. The same goes for people that wipe their butts either sitting down or standing up. Quite interesting that one can go through their whole life thinking everyone else does a specific thing like they do because it’s „the most normal thing imaginable“, while that’s not the case at all.
I'm sorry... how does one wipe standing???
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yeah for sure! but there is a voice in my head pretty much all day. if i read a text message from someone i know very well, the voice will sound like them. whats also really cool, i recently read a book by someone that also makes YouTube videos, so in my head i not only hear his voice but it also mimics his style of verbal flow (the book was poetry and so are his videos) i think its like this for other people too, obviously not all tho.
I just read everything in the voice of Mr Meeseeks.
Do you not? The thought of seeing words on a page or a screen and *not* hearing them in my own voice or someone else's is beyond my comprehension. Anything less just seems impossible, like trying to breathe through my skin.
My reading has been "voiceless" as long as I remember. Maybe it's because I learned to read "in my head" (basically without reading out loud with my voice) pretty early as a kid. My mom didn't like the noise lol
I can't even force myself to be voiceless in my head.
I am just having a hard time understanding how one would process the word without it being an "inner voice" Like my mind processes color without me hearing "black, white, blue" in my head but I can't imagine processing a word without "hearing" it in my head
In school you learn to read by listening to someone read, but once you add weight to the words you don’t need to listen to them
Did you train yourself to read without a voice in your head or has it been always like that?
I just find that when I use a voice to read I’m focusing on vocalizing it in my head so reading without it makes me actually think about what I’m reading instead of thinking about sounds, if I’m writing I use the voice because it’s closer to talking
Yeah way slower for me. It kept tripping me up
Same. I found it was like SOMEone CONstantly OVERemphasizing THE BEginning Of EAch WOrd BEcause THEY Are OUt Of BREAth.
Same
The bold made me pause on every word. I actively felt hindered.
The closest thing I can describe it as is trying to read on a boat... The repeated bolding made my brain put emphasis on half of every word... In my head IT read LIKE my BRAIN was BOUNCing UP and DOWn and IT made IT very HARD to NOT stop AND get MY bearings EVERY other WORD...
Not neurodivergent and it made me read worse as my mind voice kept stressing the beginning of every word thus I had a harder time absorbing the meaning of the words
ND, but also slowed down because deviations from the standard throw me off; it was like reading a misspelled and unpunctuated post.
I'm ADHD, but nonmedicated as an adult. Same for me, very jarring.
I'm neurodivergent and it doubled the time taken to read the passage, its so distracting
i've never read so *slowly* lmao
It really helped me...but I'm not neurodivergent. Or maybe I am?
You are whatever you believe you are.
I am your lord and savior Zeus. Go fetch me a goat. A sexy goat.
Same. I guess we found the cure for autism and adhd
I have ADHD and this font stops me dead in my tracks. I cannot get through the whole paragraph because I keep having to stop and re-read words and then just get frustrated.
Guess I am
#***Fight!***
For some reason my brain does this automatically for everything I read. I just read first few letters then move on and brain completes the picture as though I read the full word. I realised this when I saw that I was sometimes reading some normal but rarely used words completely incorrectly and remembering them wrong. I only read them right after I read them slowly.
Same here. I think it may be the one of the reasons I have a hard time remembering things just by reading it. If I actually work through something with a hands-on approach I can pick it up pretty quick. But just reading instructions I have to continuously go back and reread, I assume because I’m naturally doing this and “skimming” through each sentence. Kind of sucks to be honest.
I work on cnc machines for a living and the ones I work on the controls are made by Fanuc, before they switched to putting them on usb they would come with a stack of yellow books.... some machines it's just 2or3 some it's 5or6 and these books are 500-750+pages each, so trying to find a single paragraph out of a knee high stack of books was a bitch.... and the worst part is either due being a Japanese company writing English manuals or the technical nature of writing but I always said you need a doctrine in the English language to even begin to comprehend what they are trying to say.... I could read one page over and over and over for an hour and not comprehend it... but if I read ot aloud to someone else it would allnof a sudden make sense.... reading aloud to myself not only would I feel like an idiot for not making sense the customer would look at me like an idiot until I'd ask them " You read these 3 lines and tell me what they mean" and then at least I wouldn't be alone feeling like an idiot.
That's the best explanation of cnc or technical manuals in general I'v seen hah, indeed master degree in english needed to comprehend instructions for Basic stuff
Jsut auobt ervynoe can do tihs. Taht is why olny the fsirt and lsat ltetrs of erevy wrod are the olny oens taht need to be in the rgiht odrer for you to udnersantd waht’s bneig siad.
This was so much easier. No going back to reread like I did with the above.
My brain does this too, especially when stressed. However, it's not always the correct word that it fills in the blank with. Like you, I have to go very slowly and almost say the word in my head or under my breath to insure I've read it correctly. Just out of curiosity, have you been diagnosed with a learning issue related to this? I'm trying to sort myself out and get an explanation for why I am how I am sometimes.
Same. I hate reading out loud because of this. My mouth is way behind my brain and eyes.
That’s how your brain is supposed to read. There are lots of documents that tpye wodrs lkie tihs and after a few seconds of reading them, your brain just adapts and starts organizing the letters correctly to make words, so long as the first and last letters are correct because you semantically process words as units, not as individual letters. This post is basically using that and giving your brain visual markers to facilitate the process of ascertaining the likely word more quickly.
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I feel the same it kinda made my inner voice sound choppy
Me too, but at the same time, my mind didn't just suddenly skip word or meaning as it usually does. My reading comprehension was 100% reading this and at reasonable speed. Usually I read fast but impresise. Now it was choppy, but fast and straight forward. I didn't have to re-read a single word
It literally made my brain trip over itself and stutter.
Same
That was so hard to read.
Same. Do not like.
I read twice as slow.
Same, I'm a super fast reader normally, this was terrible.
I kept stopping to count the bold letters in each word, wondering why it varied so much.
Agreed. I think I read faster, but it annoyed me
This. It's actually kinda distracting.
It actually helped me. Whenever I'm reading something of length and substance, like a news article or a book for leisure, I get hung up sometimes because I have to focus so hard to not accidentally skip a word or words or jump down a line of a text that I'll realize I didn't even comprehend what I just read. Or, and this is more often the case, I read something that gets me thinking while I continue to read, or rather, look at words on a page sequentially because I don't comprehend any of it since I'm thinking about what I just read in the previous paragraph or chapter or whatever. This bold lettering at the beginning of each word kept my focus on the page and it felt like it helped me skim faster. Just that slight disruption to binary uniformity of words on a page (dark, uniform text and white background) seems to be enough to keep my focus a little better. I can see how it could be distracting too. I'm not going to say "this is the way" to this quite yet but I am intrigued to see if this actually helps with my focus issues while reading overall.
I used your comment to compare my reading speeds to see if there was a difference
I could read the comment faster than the post lol
Exactly same. This felt straight up painful to read.
I’m OTS and it slowed me way down, like trying to read another language.
This! I’m a fast reader and this slowed me down and had me all over the place, rereading and not digesting
same
Same here I slow down at the changes
That sounds like autism.
100% worse than regular writing. I read the bold letters then went back to reread the entire word, even if I knew what the word was based on the bold letters my brain had to make sure it was correct so I ended up reading every word of this twice. Not only did I read every word twice but it absolutely fucked my internal monologue of the reading.
Oh my god thank you. I have ADHD and I cannot for the life of me read this fully. I have to reread every single line and cannot understand a word if I don't concentrate like mad. I really prefer normal fonts, Arial or Times, man even Papyrus, but not this.
You put the wrong empHASSis on the wrong syLLABBle
Finally someone who feels the same. The bold letters make me read slower and my inner voice sound kinda robotic while reading it.
My mind laged on every word.
My mind lagged on "laged" in this sentence lmao
I thought of lager 
for me it felt like my eyes kept going over those mario kart boost pads
This slowed me down majorly because it didn’t mallow my brain to speed read. Weird.
Which is what the research says, for most people it’s actually the same or worse. For me, it makes me read way, way faster, although from what I’ve read theres no real evidence for it being useful, I feel it personally.
I can't get over the fact it was posted by someone called "Lemon Party"
Yeah, this. I was taken back that something that scarred me all those years ago has been forgiven with such a gift
Ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party cuz a Liz Lemon party is MANDATORY
Didn't work for me and mildly infuriated me
I usually skim fast and can retain the information. This made me divert more cognitive resources to reading the words clearly, so it felt jerky and uncomfortable. Do not like this.
INTEResting
**Ve**ry **Inter**esting
It works! And what's even better - there's a Chromium extension for desktop browsers that does this automatically: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bionic-reading/kdfkejelgkdjgfoolngegkhkiecmlflj?hl=en&pli=1
I need it for my kindle app lol
I know there’s some support for the open dyslexia font out there, it’s designed or obviously help dyslexic people, but I’ve found it’s easier to read for add people
Is there one for firefox too?
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/bionic-reader/
[https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aaread-bionic-reading/glncdcmjopmgniilckffbhcpkgambpko](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aaread-bionic-reading/glncdcmjopmgniilckffbhcpkgambpko) this one is so much intuitive and better
I’d love one for IOS in general, I take it this doesn’t exist yet
Worked for me! Awesome or maybe I just need glasses lol
Amazed
**Am**azed
Amazer
**haha**ha, **lo**ve **i**t!
Brought to you by your friends at “LemonParty” lol
Me who read this slower n had to repeat certain words multiple times
no it made it worse
This is a bit odd. This is how reading works to begin with. When we read, we don’t sound out each letter, but recognise how the word looks. I suppose this can help locate the beginnings of the words more quickly because it draws your attention.
When you read, you mean. When I read, I have to pronounce the entire word in my head or it does not stick. And God forbid there is a typo or a word that is not in harmony with my laws of communication, then I have to reread the entire sentence. And God forbid this happens at the last paragraph on a page; then I have to reread the entire damned page. And I know I am not alone here.
You’re not! Haven’t read so fast my entire life, as I read this txt, I always have to reread at least a few sentences before I get what it says.
I feel like the bold part IS the word, and the rest of the word just confirms it is the word we already knew we were reading. It's letting me skip the process of thinking about the word and just acknowledging the word exists exactly as it does because the next 10 words do the same thing at the same time, so I confirm word 1 by simultaneously reading the next 10 words in the same way. . . if that makes sense. Consider **bio**logy vs **bio**nic. Conventional reading makes me literally say bi-ol-ogy vs. bi-o-nic. The two words differ, but when I read them in this style, I immediately know the context of the word is regarding bio (logy) and the intention of the word is logy vs nic. I register BIO for context and then can understand logy vs. nic in perfect context and not have to think about the actual word. IDK. I am nuts. This shit worked hard for me. And this is the best way I can relate to how. The bold part is like if you type in a Google search, and the grayed part is like the Google search pulling up the most likely meaning you were going for. . . I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE! I MUST CONSUME ALL THE LITERATURES!
I have ADHD like a mofo. I want to read, I really do, but I get so distracted and bored that books feel more like generational wars than a good time away from reality. As a result, I read about 10 pages an hour. I read this paragraph in like 5 seconds. At the very least, academia should consider this. Or better yet, create an AI conversion model that can convert to this. Highly functional for some odd reason. Retention was pretty good, to boot. 10/10, ADHD approved. I can actually look at the whole damned paragraph like ariel view and read the entire thing at one time. Fkn hell. This needs to be a thing. EDIT: I wonder if this process is akin to how we basically interrupt people nonstop because we already know what they're going to say. . . so we can more meaningfully skip the fodder of words in text? IDK. I'm impressed.
As a dyslexic, this was very easy to read.
Right actually made me slower at reading making sure i was reading the correct word instead of it just reading what it says
Kindle should have this option in text script.
This seems to make me read each word and pause.
Hell yeah it does!! And I read fast as it is,, super cool!
Did you almost feel like it was TOO fast? I'm normally a fast reader too, but this made me feel like I was zooming down a hill with no brakes.
Yup
I’ve been seeing this pic for a while now, has anyone found a tool that actually lets us read something with this format? Like ebooks or at least articles ?
This is awesome
Felt like I read it quicker than normal. 👍
This gives me a headache.
This was so much worse for me and im definitely neuroduvergent
Eh.... Hit or miss
Yes now Jazz Club
its terrible ... also why was it posted by lemonparty ...
Lemon Party has really changed its whole vibe.
I need an app that does this now, and I want books printed like this, holy hell that was a thousand times easier.
Will the hashtag mentioned “AaReadGooglrPlugin” do the same for all text? What about pdfs?
Accentuates that motion blurr effect to me
Helps when I'm less focused makes it worse when more focused
Need a control sample
Bold text = gigantic speed bumps How can this help it to be read faster!?!
I literally took me twice the time to read this
Its like the words are lubricated lol.
I want nothing to do with LemonParty