The world and society are developing, producing new information. The information includes the issues from the different spheres of a life and fields. A person is to cover as much knowledge as it is possible for a short time interval.

Nowadays it is common to think that a computer supplants the books from an everyday life. But the thought that a computer and a book are on the different levels at the moment is incorrect. Actually a book smoothly flows in the internet.

Usually among the teachers and scientists it is common to think that the schools starts wrong reading process and in the older age some people try to change their skills. Why?

At the present time a young reader is a new type of a reader. Eventually the leisure interests of a child, informative purposes. Now the subject reading prevails above the free reading.

Some people wish to learn fast reading due to their job. Some people wish to develop their own abilities. The reasons of this wish are different. But every person goes to the only problem. How to make everything correctly?

Myths of the fast reading

As it was said earlier, people used to think that ability to read is given by nature and it is hard to make somebody read quicker. But it is a mistake. Returning to the old times, we can find some evidences that people had similar speed of reading. So, at the present time the speed of reading is the same. But at all times there were people who succeeded to read much quicker than an average person did. For example, Mark Twain and Lev Tolstoy could read a thousand signs per minute. It is three times quicker than a usual person reads. But it does not mean that you can not read as quickly as these writers could. At least I guess they did not possess this talent from the very nature. They are usual people who tried to work over themselves and develop good inclinations. All you need for learning to read faster is your desire, correction of the mistakes, patience and practice.

Other myth is that it is very long to become proficient in fast reading. The professionals insist that it is possible to learn fast reading only in a month. In a month one is able to read all the texts quickly correcting the possible mistakes.

And the last stereotype is as following. They say that reading the texts too quickly, they lose most important information, the main idea. It is not true. One is able to read the texts of any complication and any theme as learning this skill you do not train speed only, but learn how to understand a text, select a main idea, and catch basic multiplying quality of text perception.