"Fixation" means the way that your eyes stop and focus on words or images. Your eyes don't stop for long, but each microsecond adds up. This means that when you want to increase your reading speed, you need to decrease the number of fixations. The only way to do this is to make sure that your eyes take in as many words as possible each time they stop.
In other words, if you have a sentence that is twenty words long, and your eyes stop at every word to process it, your eyes are stopping twenty times. If you can take in two words at each glance, you're only stopping ten times - that's already twice as fast! Now think how fast you could read if your eyes and brain can take in three, four, five, or more words with every fixation. The exercises in this series help you learn to do just that.
Because these exercises require intensive use of the eye muscles, be sure to go through one of the eye warmups before you begin. You can change the text selection used in this exercise series at any time. Track your improvement on the progress charts, and remember to keep adjusting your goals upward as you improve.
To practice using an exercise, select that exercise and press the "Start" button. To return to the Training menu, click on the arrow at the top left of the screen.
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