(ii) Avoid any distraction

A lot of us can read in rooms with loud music. Some of us can read on busy trains. However, if you want to read anything quickly and accurately, try to approximate how long it will take you to read it, find and appropriate a period in your day when you'll have such time, then go to a quiet room/place and put up "do not disturb sign". You'll find reading in an atmosphere of silence will greatly enhance your ability to read faster. Of course, this is sometimes easier said than done, especially if you have a family with young children. If this applies to you, see if you can postpone reading material until such time as you can devote 100% of your time to your reading.

(iii) Try to read in daylight hours

Although many of us enjoy reading odd novel in bed, for purposes of reading fast, research has shown that we are much more likely (biologically) to read fast during daylight hours.

(iv) Take a break

No one can read continuously for hours on end. Then again, each of us has different thresholds when we have been reading too long. Finding equilibrium between spending too long reading, which will slow down your reading pace, and taking too many breaks from reading, which will likewise slow down your reading pace, is very important. In most cases, medium time for fast reading is a period of 1 hour reading followed by a 10 to 15 minute break.

(v) Motivation:

Finally, one of most important aspects of reading fast is being able to motivate yourself to read material in first place! If you enjoy reading something, you'll want to take your time over it. Reading fast, therefore, usually needs to be adopted with reading material we are not overly enthusiastic about reading in first place! But you should not look at it this way; otherwise your reading speed is going to deteriorate. You need to motivate yourself. Here, prudent practice is to set yourself goals - like you would with anything else in life: "I want to read Chapter 1 in 5 minutes", etc.

So, whatever reason may be as to why you want or need to read faster, if you utilize some of above practices in your reading, in no time at all you'll be reading much faster!

Finally, whichever of speed reading methodologies you select to learn, it is likely that you'll need to learn to read large chunks of information at same time, or to skim read. As children we are taught that these practices are not good for us - we will likely miss information, or misinterpret it.

As you can see then, a willingness to accept new ideas is going to be essential if you want to learn to improve your reading speed.

3. Motivation

Although motivation may be considered similar to desire, essential difference is that not only do you need to have desire to learn, but you need to keep that desire for, potentially, a long period of time. In practice, learning proper speed reading technique only takes a very short time. But real test is in having to practice and practice everyday.

This means that a student of a speed reading course is going to need to maintain motivation to learn how to improve their reading speed over a prolonged period. Indeed, some would argue that you never stop learning to improve your reading speed.

4. Practice

The adage is "practice makes perfect", and nowhere is this adage more appropriate than in reading learning process. Anyone who wishes to improve their reading speed is going to have to practice over prolonged periods.

Conclusion

To sum it up, if you want to learn how to improve your reading speed, all you is (i) desire; (ii) willingness; (iii) motivation; and (iv) practice.