Product Description

Speed Reader-X® is an efficient and to-the-point training system that concentrates on speed techniques. It uses the latest software which is designed to help you practice speed reading exercises.

The human brain is capable of taking in information much faster than the average person can read. Speed Reader-X teaches a new, visual method of taking in information.

Speed Reading is not pushing harder. It is a new method of viewing words and sentences. Do you find yourself reaching the end of a paragraph and realize you have no idea what you just read? Your brain became bored and tuned out what you were reading. Speed Reader-X will retrain your brain to take in information as fast as it can.

The Speed Reader-X Training System is suitable for teens, college ages and adults. It has settings for children and adults which show appropriate reading level passages for practice. Children with a 3rd grade reading level can use the program but they should have good reading skills. Teens to adult will find the program more suitable.

There are many speed reading systems that claim you can double your reading speed in five or ten minutes. The truth is anyone can double their reading speed anytime without any instruction. You simply push harder and read faster. There is no trick to that. The problem is that you cannot sustain this reading method long enough to read a book or magazine. Speed Reader-X gives you a new way to look at words and take in information without that little voice in your head slowing you down.

Speed Reader-X is designed to make learning speed reading fast and easy. Each lesson includes a video instructor who explains the lesson objective and reveals more about speed reading methods. The system consists of 10 lessons. It also includes eye warm-up exercises and a tachioscope style trainer which is not only educational, it is fun. After the video introduction is completed, you are shown some sample text where you can practice the lesson objective. As your eyes scan the text on the screen you are un-learning bad habits and learning new, good habits. You click the Next button, words flash and you begin to quickly overcome the roadblocks you were taught in school.

You can load your own reading material in the practice section(where you can also create your own custom lessons) and in the reading test areas. The CD includes almost 200 texts you can select from and the free bonus DVD includes 17,000 additional texts.

The software helps you retrain your eyes to move smoothly over text without stumbling over words. After completing each lesson, you can see your results on the screen as the progress chart draws your latest reading speed results right in front of you. You do not have to wonder if you are making progress, you can see the numbers.

You can practice in the privacy of your own home, on your schedule. Tackle as many lessons as you wish each day. Speed reading has been around in one form or another for a long time but very few people take advantage of it or even know about it. This is your chance to join the elite group of people in the world who can speed read. Don't miss this opportunity. Order your copy now.

This description applies to Version 6.0 of Speed Reader-X®

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163700 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Binding: CD-ROM
• 35 pages

Customer Reviews

Worth the Money
It was a bit of a rough start... UPS lost our order. Amazon replaced it, though it took a while (was during the holiday rush).

I've studied speed reading for several years and overall I'll agree with the good reviews that SpeedReaderX has. THe manual is super-condenced with all the fluff taken out. All of the key concepts seem to in in there. THe software is a bit primative. Not many options. A power-user will be able to access the Program Files folder and thus change the font-size of the reading windows as well as putting in custom .txt files to read. It would be nice if it were possible to change the size of the reading window, but this does not seem to be possible. Other annoyances are that, when doing reading tests, one must scroll down by keeping the mouse on the scroll-bar-down-arrow and clicking. Having to keep the mouse alligned with the little down-arrow requires you to occasionally look down at it, which disrupts the flow of reading. THe last downside is, when graphing results of the reading tests, if you have one erroneous score, you can't delete it. You can only delete ALL of your test scores, or none of them.... argh! Despite these bad points though, the software (and overall system) does deliver and has made a huge difference in my reading speed. It's better than more expensive programs I've trial/tested. If Romania inc. fixes these software annoyances with a downloadable upgrade this will be a five star product for sure.

Concerning the free DVD full of ebooks... This has gotten rave reviews. I don't see what the big deal as this info is available on line anyway. I guess it is nice to have a "hard" copy of the ebooks, but new stuff is being added to Progect Gutenberg all the time--so just go there instead. My prefered reading is to copy whole Encarta articles as text and use SRx as a "pacer" to speed read the articles--it works GREAT for this. As noted above though, you have to go to C/program files/speedreaderx/text, paste in the .txt file and rename it, then get rid of the original, to put custom reading in--which will be a hassle for some folks....

All in all, a good program. I'm glad I bought it, and I'm glad I bought it through Amazon :o)

Cheap and Speedy
Compared to many other speed reading packages that I have been offered, Speed Reader X is very reasonably priced. It also does exactly 'what it says on the tin' - it gets on with speed reading right from the start.

There is no unnecessary filling; just install the program, run it and it's straight into lesson 1, speed reading. There are ten lessons and as each one is completed the next one becomes available.

The user is in control all the time and each lesson can be completed over and over until the the user is satisfied with the progress that is made. The program comes with 17,000 books to practise on, and there is guidance on how to read for leisure or for deep understanding, and how to measure progress.

I would have liked to have control over the speed at which some of the practise text moves down the screen in the first few lessons, but apart from that, I am quite happy with this program. Not having tried any other computer-based speed reading program I can't make comparisons, but having tried books on speed reading, I find this program much more user friendly.

This is a good program that deals with the subject of speed reading in a straightforward manner and I would be surprised if any other program, costing ten times the price, was very much better.

Excellent Product Excellent Price
This is the same standard program as the more expensive ones. It works just as well for a fraction of the price. Best part about it is that you can upload your own reading materials onto this. So you can kill 2 birds with the same stone..reading what you need or want to read, why learning to read faster

I have a copy of overpriced EyeQ that I am trying to get rid of, I wont be getting rid of this any time soon.