Terminal based visual pacer for speed reading training.
Most available speedreaders work on the basis of in place replacement of words in text, which does not follow natural patern of reading by following the text ( usualy from left to right ). Using this visual pacer should feel more natural while switching between computer screen and printed text or other medium.
$ svp -s 250 -f myBook.txt
$ svp --help
Usage of svp:
-f string
Book file
-lw int
Line width - max number of characters per line (default 80)
-p int
Position in book - line number
-s int
Reading speed in words per minute (default 200)
-w int
Field width - max number of words displayed (default 2)- Text width is set to 80 characters by default.
- Speed variable ( words per minute ) default target is set to 200. Avarage length of a word in english is 5.1 characters long and your actual speed may vary depending on the length of the words in the text. For more natural feel the speed also changes following comma, full stop and new line. Long words also slow down the pacer and add extra 50 millisends for each letter above 5 characters.
- Visible words are set to 2 with higher speeds you might want to go with 3 or even 4.
- bookmarking is also possible. When you interupt the pacer it will return the line number you finished on and you can resume reading from the same place next time.
You can read any text based file. For best results you might want to consider converting some books from epub to txt.
Included free book "A tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens was downloaded from www.gutenberg.org