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for those struggling to catch up on back issues of Â鶹´«Ã½: colleges in China are offering courses in speed-reading, promising students the ability to zip through texts at 20,000 words a minute.
We got wind of this story (a t a m u c h s l o w e r p a c e) via China Daily, which published a viral video showing students flipping through whole books in seconds. The bookworms, filmed at a reading competition in Yancheng, Jiangsu, are said to be practising “quantum speed-reading”, a technique pioneered by Japanese educator …
