You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
You were trained with (or with a facsimile of) the Evelyn Wood method - There was at least one technique better developed by the American Speedreading Academy (though I have seen on TV -so rigged set up was possible - a gentleman in the late 50's early 60' who hit 10,000 or so who had been EW trained) as just one of the students using it - who I was working with during the time I started working with ASA about 30 years ago- also hit 10,000 with about 78% comprehension. Obviously this is anecdotal, and if Dustin is who I think he is (different avatar) then as soon as he saw my name he decided this is a lie. He's wrong, but for some reason he want's/need's to believe that high rates of reading are not possible. Anyway, we got the boy in because his parents were tired of his poor grades and decided to try this. His initial speed was 70 - 80 wpm with about 55% comp (and given the simplicity of what we were using - given age and info) it should have been higher on both . He was large (not fat, large), friendly and eager to please which meant he paid attention and followed the instructions and, fortunately, he did not tend to get upset when he had a little regression. Our program was designed for app 10 weeks - with the proviso that if you were not happy with your results, you could continue to come in with no further charge. At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try siomething new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. Now the book was a novel - on the level he could read and understand (not War and Peace or Moby Dick - a YA title so we are talking about a gigantic jump in speed and a reasonable jump in comprehension. Since I trained in the method, I know it ran my speed up - though he was faster (but then, I wear glasses). By the by, the one thing I dispute through personal knowledge anecdotal or not is that ridiculous 300 wpm limit. I was first tested in the fourth grade and had a slightly over 800 wpm rate. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, but I don't remember that) and finding small rocks stuck in the treads of his tires - the rocks turned out to be diamonds........
At the end of the ten weeks, since I had been working with him primarily, and the owners knew I had an interest in really determining how/whether the program worked, they let me try something new - Instead of using the reasonably large selection of books they had (with question sets already prepared), I brought in a book and question set of my own (for those who have not heard, I am a teacher - and am quite good at constructing test questions). No one had any idea what book I was bringing in and no one knew what the questions were. He read the book at an average rate of 10,ooo wpm and scored in the low 80's on comprehension. The article was about a man driving a jeep in desert country (probably South Africa, ….No one …
