The lighter side of ADHD
I've found with this type of text that if I try to read it normally, I struggle to process the change between the start and end of each word, and read much more slowly. If I try to read quickly though, it flows, as if I'm skimming the words but still understanding them properly.
It's a very strange feeling :)
Yeah I had a Firefox plugin earlier that turned all text to bionic, and I loved and hated it at the same time
Especially since it feels like you're reading in 1fps. It feels like stuttering
It's a loosening of control, I think. Let the wheel turn on its own, you're still there to steer as needed, but let the inertia do the work. 🤓
I love this in principle but I can’t use it myself. I‘m a very fast reader by default, basically already doing what the highlighting tries to make you do, without it needing to be there. The highlighting disrupts that for me. I end up stopping at every word and partially jumping back and forth. I do show this to people on occasion that aren’t as lucky as me with their reading speed and most said it helped them. Not all though.
I hate it. Made me read twice as fast and use four times as much brainpower to comprehend it.
I read pretty fast but it takes a lot of mental energy to pay attention to every word. I could read that very fast and it cost me a very low amount of mental energy.
The reason it works is because it makes it harder for the brain.
Same, I was hoping to burn 20 seconds of my life and instead it took only 10
This picture is yelling half of every word at me
Yeah, I could read it faster but it also feels like it's messing with my eyes. I think anything of real length in this style would give me a headache.
This reads like one of my brother’s brainrot videos being read by an AI.
This "tech" has been out for a while but I don't know that we can easily get it on our phones and computers for general reading :(.
Anyone know?
Librera on fdroid also has this feature (but not referred to as "bionic")
Settings > Advanced Settings > Highlighting Initial Letters
There's a bionic reader extension for Firefox that works on mobile, but obvs that only works on webpages
Most such phone apps should be web pages, and the good ones usually have a web-page version.
Opposite effect for me. I read that much slower than my normal speed
Works for me, but triggers an uncanny-valley/discomfort effect whict Sprint Reader doesn't.
I'm not ADHD, but that particular passage using that particular font and those particular colors seemed to speed up my ability to read the text. But when Staments posted below (https://lemmy.zip/post/45655234/20636698) using what looks like the same methodology, it ended up being an impediment. I struggled to even get through the first sentence.
So I have to wonder if there's more to it than just randomly putting a character or few in bold at the start of each word -- like maybe it's also highly dependent on things like the font being use and making sure to use specific words and phrases that are conducive to this technique.
To be fair, when I open that link, I get light gray text on a dark brown-or-yellow-greyish background which isn't that easily readable for me - at least contrast wise.
Hmm, this doesn't work for me, for some reason. I end up having to pause at the beginning of each word, like a child trying to sound out words while reading. It's not matching the flow and I feel like something is constantly off...
Reading this is like pointing an information machine gun on my brain and pulling the trigger. I read the first sentence faster and then the buffer overflows and I have to constantly stop reading or re-read stuff because the comprehension part of my brain cannot keep up. I feel like I naturally already kinda read like this, I don't read character for character but kinda skim words and know what it says. The image forces me to read in a very unnatural way because I cannot properly use the last part of the word for extra confidence in these predictions.
It helps me read faster, but IDK what effect it has on comprehension in a longer text. If I struggled to read I might be tempted to try it, but thankfully that's not one of my many issues.
I personally read that passage faster than normal (2x-ish), but yeah, zero comprehension afterwards. If my brain is just filling in the blanks for the back half of every word I'm not actually "reading", I'm solving a puzzle and then on to something else.
I think that was debunked once but i am lazy to find the related survey / study.
It seems disproven, or perhaps only useful to some subset of people they haven't pinpointed.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824001811
Honestly though if it helps someone they should ride that placebo as far as it takes them!
I read the study @BCOVertigo@lemmy.world linked and the following statements can be made:
for 32 university students with normal vision and without dyslexia who have not encountered bionic reading before
but
There were no studies following up on these results, so if someone wants to go for it, it's free real estate!
How do I get this on a kindle?
Old Tony, is this Nice! I read like this like im a normal Person lol.
Only started working halfway through reading this...but I think this is overall crap. You read however fast you read.
So that you mean that it took a few moments to adjust? Almost like you weren't going to immediately be able to jump onto the skill instantly and that you needed some more time? Perhaps immediately coming to the conclusion that it is terrible and not worth the time after only a brief experience with the usage of such a thing isn't the best thing to do. Then again, perhaps calling it crap based off of your own personal experiences when other people in this thread are saying otherwise is a bit narrow minded? Expand your horizons. Let people be people and phrase your opinions as them. Not everything is going to be universal. Live long and prosper, my friend. Have a good day.
Edit: The fact y'all are downvoting this polite message saying "Don't unilaterally call something shit that others enjoy" says way more about you than it ever could about my comment ¯_(ツ)_/¯
This is weird, it helps me read the words faster but my comprehension is massively reduced. Like all I'm seeing are words and losing the sentence.
I personally get a headache trying to read this, so it would be hard to practice… Words seem to flow faster though, need someone record their time reading with and without this
The original post works for me, but seeing this the way my Voyager is set up ended up making it slower for me. The bold white letters on my black theme just made the letters merge into a mush here.
So I guess for it to work it would have to be set up in a particular way that works with the reader.
This is crazy
Doesn’t this just work for everyone?
I’ve also tried where text/word(s) flashes in front of you and I’ve realized that’s faster for me.
Spreeder! I love it!
