<p>Fast reading is a matter of identifying words without need a pause to determine their likely meaning. If you haven’t a large vocabulary, you will read more slowly because the words are unfamiliar. The more familiar a word is to you, the more quickly you will process it. A text full of unfamiliar words will be read more slowly than a passage of words you already know and do not need to process. Therefore, the more you read, the more words you’ll recognize and the more quickly you will read. Where you run into issues of technique is when you want to learn to do it immediately. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t attempt to force yourself. It isn’t a matter of training your eyes to move more quickly but of training your brain to react to words without having to decipher their meaning and context. The saying the words in your head is not the most time effective way but it works in training your mind. Doing vocab work might assist you as well. </p>
<p>I have always read extremely quickly so much so that people still stare when I read in a doctor’s office or some place public because I’m flicking over those pages so fast. I do not skim…I read every word. But I have been reading obsessively for more than 40 yrs so of course I got good at it…it’s like learning to play an instrument.</p>