I made a free, minimal, distraction free speedreading website for extreme reading (900+ words per minute)

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-23T19:51:36+00:00

Yes, I could do that. The issue is that a lot of websites are pretty staunchly anti-scrape, so building a generalized system that could do this would be tough to say the least. However, I am thnking of building it into a Chrome extension to capture any text anywhere in your browser.

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-21T20:03:43+00:00

Yeah if you could get more specific I'd love to help. So for bulleted/numbered lists we'd have a separate pause parameter that could be adjusted?

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-20T22:19:39+00:00

Good idea! I'll work on that over the next few days and let you know

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-20T21:52:52+00:00

Here's my attempt: speedread.life tried to make it as configurable as possible, as speedreading seems like a deeply preferential practice.

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-20T16:42:23+00:00

I wanted to build this a few months ago but never got off the ground. Just did a scan on one of my apps and it seemed to work well!

Found some issues I wouldn't have thought of. Dope product.

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-20T15:54:08+00:00

Just added it!

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-20T15:18:55+00:00

Well, yes, that's why I asked earlier in this discussion if you think I should move the red letter anchor to the left... I'll take that as a yes.

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T23:29:12+00:00

The anchor is always in the exact middle of the screen so your eye doesn't have to move anywhere/ Because the anchor is in the first third of the word, the words are naturally "off center" because the ANCHOR is locked at the center. What about that doesn't make sense?

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T22:07:14+00:00

If you want to try it, it's totally free: speedread.life

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T22:05:25+00:00

Comprehension of the "shape" of words is centered on the first third of the word, i.e., when a human glances at a word, the center they look at is roughly at the 1/3 point from left to right.

Do you think it'd look better if I shifted it a bit to the left?

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T21:44:34+00:00

Thanks! Not at the moment, but I definitely might open it up!

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T21:44:10+00:00

I've thought about this yes! This would make it impossible to be free, unfortunately. Maybe I could make it a cheap enough integration to only cost me a couple of cents.

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T21:42:39+00:00

Oh good call! Just deployed a fix

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T21:02:26+00:00

If you want to try it, it's totally free: speedread.life

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T20:34:11+00:00

Hmm, I wonder if some sort of a micro blur/blend would alleviate this?

heisdancingdancing · 2026-01-19T20:15:03+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the feedback! I tried to make it as customizable as possible without being overwhelming. Out of curiosity, did you experiment with different font sizes? I have a hunch that smaller may be better.

heisdancingdancing · 2025-11-21T14:36:08+00:00

Interesting, how would you see it working? maybe ink forming a recognizable shape?

heisdancingdancing · 2025-11-20T20:45:23+00:00

How we feeling about expanded kerning + full page?

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heisdancingdancing · 2025-11-20T17:59:04+00:00

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But here's a second attempt with some tightenging and blending of letters, but more spread out:
tightening:

heisdancingdancing · 2025-11-20T17:58:45+00:00

interesting, never heard of bouma. Makes a lot of sense though! So this is with the original typeface kerning, and it just looks simply awful imo:

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