Publish at July 27 2009 Updated May 07 2026
Speeder is an online training service for improving reading speed.
When we read, we don't scroll our eyes in a linear fashion; instead, we make small jumps and embrace a number of characters with our gaze. Speeder plays on different parameters to extend this range of perception and character recognition speed.
Speeder plays with different parameters to extend this range of perception and the speed of character recognition, and it's interesting to note how the size of the characters or the number of words displayed at a time can vary our speed.
Completely open, Speeder accepts any kind of text: you simply copy a text, however long, and Speeder displays it at a certain scrolling rhythm, a certain number of words at a time and at a certain font size.
You can determine the rhythm, font size, number of words displayed at a time, window width, color, alignment and a few other settings.
An interesting reading training tool... Speeder
You might also like:
Clean language and symbolic modeling
Avoiding inducing or thinking in the other person's place is not so simple. How clean language can help.
Wikipedia: the quality of contributions affects the quality of articles
The principles of editorial self-management and peer review on which Wikipedia builds its growth and credibility are not enough to ensure the quality of its articles. Why are some of them excellent and others just average, or even mediocre? Here are some answers.
When researchers encounter or confront other ways of thinking
When they leave their labs, scientists meet people for whom the universe is not made up of equations. Paranormal enthusiasts talk of obscure forces and chains of causality riddled with contradictions. Others, on the contrary, see the results of their research used to demonstrate anything and everything...
How to increase the creation, adaptation and use of open educational resources
This paper shares ideas, stimulates and encourages greater production and use of OER on the African continent as well as in the global South.
What is a concept? What does it mean to conceptualize?
This article is an update on what a concept is, the act of conceptualization and the construction of a paradigm. It may be of interest at a time when the neologization of the world is leading to the creation of catchwords sometimes so hollow that they have no time to resonate.
