LESS EYE MOVEMENT. YOUR OWN PACE.
Let the words come to you.
One word. One focal point.
Find a rhythm you can understand.
01 / HOW IT WORKS
A steady point.
A moving stream.
Ordinary reading moves your eyes between fixations across a line. Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) brings each word to the same viewing location instead.
Your eyes move along.
Several places to look →focus
One place to stayThe red letter stays locked in place. Its position follows a simple word-length heuristic, not a scientifically exact formula for every word or reader.
02 / THE SCIENCE
Read for meaning.
Speed comes second.
Where you look within a word affects recognition. Research finds an optimal viewing region near the center; for English, this is often slightly left of center. The visual span—the letters recognizable around a fixation—is also related to reading speed.
RSVP reduces the need to move your eyes across lines, but faster presentation does not mean better comprehension. Ordinary reading lets you look back when something is unclear. That rereading matters, and studies have found poorer comprehension at high RSVP speeds.
Choose the fastest pace at which you comfortably understand the material. Slow down whenever meaning starts to slip.
See the idea in action
Watch the speed-reading demonstration on YouTube.