New app helps you read more words-per-minute

Reading, it’s so inefficient. Most people move their eyes back and forth over a page, wasting precious time. A new app flashes the words directly into your eye to help you speed-read like a pro.  The speed-reading app comes from Spritz, a Boston-based startup that created technology for users to read text without moving their eyes. It works by displaying one word at a time in a 13-character space. A red letter with the word marks the “optimal recognition point,” where our brain understands the word’s meaning. Hat tip Dvice. The company spent three years developing the technique. They say Spritz can be learned in five minutes, and several subjects participating in early testing were able to read — and comprehend – 900 words per minute. They were tested on comprehension afterward to check. Most subjects managed to double their reading speeds.