Speed Reading III For Mac

Reading quickly is one thing, but typical comprehension is lower than you might think. Moreover, a lot of concentration is required to go through a text quickly, while also understanding everything you read.

Speed Reading III is a multi-platform application that seeks to help you out, as it enables you to find your maximum reading speed and can help improve it through increasingly difficult exercises.

If you want to get a general idea of how the app works, you can load one of the included documents. Their content is split into two columns, and lines from each one are displayed successively, so that you can concentrate on small portions of text and try your best to understand what your are reading, without being distracted.

The rest of the text is dimly visible in the background, and clicking on a specific line allows you to view its contents at any time.

You can select the reading speed, and this setting can be modified during an exercise if you feel that it is too easy or too difficult.

Unfortunately, the app has a major issue that limits its usability. Whether you are using one of the included texts or imported your own, only a certain number of lines can be displayed, restricted by the size of the window.

This means that all reading exercises are bound to be very short. Concentrating for a limited amount of time is not particularly difficult, as the real challenge is staying focused while perusing page after page, and Speed Reading III does not allow this.

However, unfortunately, experienced readers have little reason to install this tool, as they can get through a sample in no time.

Speed Reading III would be much more helpful if it were redesigned to allow longer texts to be imported. As it stands, its applications are fairly limited, but it may still prove to be useful for less experienced readers.