While You're Reading This, Someone Else Is Reading 3x Faster

This article is approximately 2,000 words.

At your current reading speed (probably 200-250 WPM), you'll spend 8-10 minutes reading it.

Someone trained in RSVP speed reading? 3-4 minutes.

That's not a big deal for one article. But multiply it across a lifetime, and the gap becomes staggering.

The Uncomfortable Math of Reading Speed

Let's be brutally honest about what reading speed means for your life:

Those 720 books represent:

• Business strategies you'll never learn
• Historical lessons you'll never absorb
• Scientific breakthroughs you'll never understand
• Perspectives you'll never gain
• Skills you'll never develop

Every year you don't improve your reading speed, the gap widens.

Who's Already Ahead of You?

CEOs and Executives

According to Business Insider, the most successful executives read 4-5 books per month:

• Bill Gates: 50 books per year
• Mark Cuban: 3+ hours of reading daily
• Elon Musk: Learned rocket science from books
• Warren Buffett: Reads 500+ pages per day

They're not reading slowly. They can't afford to. And they started optimizing their reading years ago.

Your Competition

While you're struggling through one industry report, your competitor has read three. While you're catching up on last week's news, they're already acting on insights from today.

In a knowledge economy, reading speed is competitive advantage.

The Next Generation

Today's students are being taught speed reading techniques from childhood. The workforce of 2030 will read faster than today's average. The bar is rising.

What Slow Reading Actually Costs You

1. Career Advancement

2. Financial Decisions

Every personal finance book you haven't read is potentially costing you money. Every investment strategy you don't know about. Every tax optimization you've missed.

One good financial book could save or earn you thousands. But you don't have time to read it.

3. Relationship Wisdom

The psychology books. The communication guides. The relationship advice that could have saved arguments, deepened connections, improved your parenting.

Unread.

4. Health Knowledge

Nutrition science. Exercise research. Mental health strategies. Sleep optimization. The information exists. You just haven't gotten to it yet.

5. Personal Growth

Every self-improvement book in your "to-read" list represents a better version of you that doesn't exist yet.

How long has that list been growing?

The Excuse Inventory

Let's address the stories you tell yourself:

"I don't have time to read"

You have time. You have the same 24 hours as everyone else.

What you don't have is reading efficiency. If you could read 3x faster, you'd need only one-third the time. Suddenly, you have time.

"I read slowly because I'm thorough"

Research consistently shows that faster readers have equal or better comprehension than slow readers. Slow reading often means distracted reading, which means worse comprehension.

Thorough and fast are not opposites.

"Speed reading doesn't work"

Skimming doesn't work. Skipping doesn't work. Traditional speed reading courses have mixed results.

RSVP is different. It's scientifically validated, and it produces real speed gains with maintained comprehension.

"I'm just not a reader"

You've been failed by reading methods designed for the average, not optimized for the individual. RSVP might be the first method that actually works with your brain.

Don't let past failures define future possibilities.

The Real Cost of Waiting

Here's what's happening while you "think about" improving your reading:

The best time to optimize your reading was 10 years ago.

The second best time is today.

Why RSVP Changes Everything

RSVP isn't a gimmick or a hack. It's applied cognitive science:

Traditional reading limitations:

• Eye movements waste 15-25% of reading time
• Regression (re-reading) wastes another 15-20%
• Subvocalization caps speed at ~250 WPM
• Self-pacing allows distraction

RSVP eliminates all of these:

• Fixed focal point = no eye movement waste
• Words disappear = no regression possible
• Speed training = reduced subvocalization
• External pacing = forced focus

The result? 2-3x reading speed within weeks of consistent practice.

What Your Life Looks Like With 3x Reading Speed

Morning Routine

Instead of skimming headlines, you actually read the full articles. You're the most informed person in your 9am meeting.

Commute

That book you've been "meaning to read"? You finish it this week. Next week, you start another.

Work

Reports that used to take an hour take 20 minutes. You have time for the strategic thinking that gets you promoted.

Evening

You read to your kids AND read for yourself. You have a life AND keep learning.

Weekend

You finish an entire book on Saturday. Sunday is for a second one.

This isn't fantasy. This is what 600 WPM feels like.

The 30-Day Transformation

Here's what happens when you commit to RSVP training:

One month. That's all it takes to fundamentally change your relationship with reading.

The Decision Point

You have two paths:

Path 1: Change Nothing

• Continue reading at 200-250 WPM
• Finish 4-6 books per year
• Watch your "to-read" list grow
• Fall further behind those who read faster
• Wonder what might have been

Path 2: Take Action

• Download FastReadi today
• Commit to 15 minutes of daily practice
• Double your reading speed in 4-6 weeks
• Read 15-20+ books per year
• Actually keep up with your field
• Become the most informed person in the room

The gap between where you are and where you could be isn't talent. It isn't time. It isn't intelligence.

It's a 15-minute daily habit and one app.

Your Move

Every article you read after this one at your current speed is a choice. A choice to stay where you are while others accelerate past you.

The information age rewards those who can process information quickly. That's not opinion—that's economic reality.

You've spent 8-10 minutes reading this article.

Someone trained in RSVP read it in 3-4 minutes and is already on to the next thing.

Which person do you want to be?

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Download FastReadi. Start your 15-minute daily practice. In 30 days, you'll read this article again—and finish in half the time.

The only question is whether you start today, or you read this same article a year from now, still wondering why you haven't improved.

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References & Further Reading

1. Carver, R. P. (1990). Reading Rate: A Review of Research and Theory. Academic Press.

2. Rayner, K., et al. (2016). "So Much to Read, So Little Time". Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

3. Business Insider. (2023). Reading Habits of Successful CEOs. Various articles.

4. World Economic Forum. (2023). Future of Jobs Report. Skills analysis.