I need to test and discuss this new writing method

[CupcakeNinja]

Are you able to read the following with more focus and speed than how you normally read?
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If so, I want to discuss if this could be an alternative writing format for future and past writings. If not, it was a good test nonetheless.

it grabbed my attention, yeah, but more grating to the eye and made me wanna punch you tbh.

Hard to tell (which should be an option in the poll), for a proper analysis you'd need at least two texts of comparable length, half of them set up like this and half without the bold letters, and time a bunch of people on how long each text takes them.
Maybe even randomize which texts are emphasized like this and which are not, just to remove potential bias based on the text lengths.

Or in the setting of this forum, at least have the multiple text samples and leave the timing to people's gut feeling.

Definitely would need some getting used to if people started formating their texts this way.

they do this in comics alot too, i've noticed, but it also feels grating because the bolded words they choose often feels unimportant so it makes me annoyed. Like, "they should've bolded this word instead, would've made the text flow better." Also, sometimes they do it too much in general and it gets annoying

 

[Vnator]

I zoomed through it, but it requires you to trust yourself to am extent. There were times I slowed down and reread a sentence to double check if I read it correctly, but that was only once or twice. I feel that the sentence was easy to predict though, in prose or a moving plot it won't be as much and thus won't work as well imo

 

[Lloyd]

I feel like it's faster but it might be placebo.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Thank you all for your feedback. Either it worked and I now have a list of some of the neurodivergent forum members or 13 of you read slower and 11 of you faster because of personal preferences. Either way, I need more data.

 

[HelloHound]

it helped me skim faster but it was annoying to try and focus on an individual word since my brain automatically skimmed over

 

[K5Rakitan]

I would need to test it more extensively to know for sure. Also, the words in the image are larger than the font size I normally read, so that helps me pay attention when my son is climbing on me.

 

[Generic.Archdemon]

I am not saying skimming make me bad at spelling... but I skim a lot....and I am really bad at spelling... it's like I skip a step... when i am reading most of the time...

 

[J_Chemist]

Would need a control to tell you whether or not I read it "faster" but I read it relatively quick.

I know how to speed read, though, so that helped.

 

[ManwX]

I feel like it hinders me on some words.. and it slows me down in a way.. it's much faster but at the cost of fumbling at words and trying again

 

[TsumiHokiro]

This is looking like a hit or/and miss thing...

 

[prognastat]

I had to change how I read. I started out way slower because I was trying to read the words. Then I switched to something more akin to skimming and it indeed went faster while retaining more of it than skimming usually does, but I didn't enjoy reading it.

 

[Alseki.]

Are you able to read the following with more focus and speed than how you normally read?
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If so, I want to discuss if this could be an alternative writing format for future and past writings. If not, it was a good test nonetheless.

When I am speed reading, I usually make one or two focal verticals and follow them instead of going horizontally.

While I found this a little faster than normal reading, it is still considerably slow in comparision to the vertical method, and does take some practice and getting used to before it's efficiency increases.

I would suggest making central syllables bold rather than starting ones, or perhaps it would be more optimal to make the first letter and central syllable bold.

 

[uCare]

Are you able to read the following with more focus and speed than how you normally read?

Yes. It's my belief it will also be less intimidating for those who avoid walls of text.

 

[dummycake]

I don't know if I'm reading faster because I have "bionic reading makes you read faster" in my mind or if it really makes me read faster

 

[DarkDuck09]

Yeah I DNF'd the paragraph to go make myself another drink just thinking about the amount of work one would have to put in to format this.

 

[FebyA]

I think because I'm not used to it, it made me more focus/alert. But I can see that it's also easier to read somehow.

Is it faster? Probably not until I, and most of your reader, get used to it. Which means they might feel annoyed and turn away before then.