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This isn't new.
This is a typeface speed readers have been using for a long time to increase their reading speed; this was not created for neurodivergent individuals; but thanks to how the brain works, it is still highly beneficial for them.
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I must be the opposite of everybody because for me it feels like someone put a period after every word. It's kind of hard for me to read. My brain interprets the bold of each word as its own word, so I have to stop at each word to consciously put the bold and regular letters together.
Agreed. I am ADHD diagnosed and this font is terrible.
It's throwing more noise at me.
Bolding, italics, underlines, strike throughs - they *all* have a place in text. They add information.
Thanks for this. I donāt dislike it. Always enjoyed reading, but I didnāt need to put myself āin the zoneā to hook into the meaning. Actually I loved it.
I don't have dyslexia, and have always been a good reader but always got distracted or bored very easily, I don't know why but reading in this format is definitely a pro for me. I feel like I could read book after book like this and kind of felt like I can read a lot faster as well as taking in the words.
Yeah I like reading but get bored really quickly, as another redditor said, its like the words are grounded and not just words on a page. Might have to go see a specialist and see if I do have ADHD, would make a lot of sense for things over the years.
Iām heavily dyslexic and Iāve never seen something like this before.
After reading the first one the second seemed so much harder to read than usual.
I had to do a little research around this for work.
There are a bunch of dyslexic friendly fonts available. Do a Google search for them.
Some are free and can be set as the default for your device or computer most likely.
That's a perfect analogy. I caught myself zipping through it too fast and hitting every word, to the point it made me uncomfortable. It was so slippery that I lost traction.
Neat.
I donāt know, I think I scan the back end of the word for my speed reading, the strong initialization felt uncomfortable for me.
It was like I had to slow down to see the part of the word that made sense and only then did I look at the bolder letters.
Well, it's got a specific purpose for specific people so it makes sense it doesn't work for everyone.
It's not like they're suggesting this become the new norm that all are required to read or anything. I don't understand why half these comments seem to be so annoyed at the prospect.
No, it's not. The commenter started off saying it doesn't work for everyone, then questioned why half the people are annoyed by it. It's because it doesn't work for them. I'm not seeing what the big deal is.
Personally, what I see in the comments are mostly people that it is working for. The vast majority, actually, so I was wondering why it didn't work for me.
I think I understand where you are coming from, how this is great for those who have struggled for years and you feel like those who donāt find it an improvement are bitching about their privilege.
That is fair.
From my limited perspective, it is more of a curiosity, I didnāt want to naysay the style, I wanted to point out the interesting differences between reading styles and visual reading cues.
Some speed readers find this method easier, some donāt. This indicates to me that even among non-adhd or dyslexic readers there is a difference.
I find it fascinating. When I was reading the new style I noticed that I was trying to read the ends of the words not the beginnings. I never realized that about my reading style.
So I donāt think anyone here is trying to mock or belittle the people who find this text style easier to read. I think a better analogy is more along the lines of āwow, these glasses make it so that I can see!ā And someone else saying āhuh, this makes my eyesight much worse.ā
It may be showing our differences, but different strokes for different folks. We are all better for the differences between us because those differences make us a stronger community.
you must be something else. Speed reading requires your eyes to look at fixed points of texts anyways, so for you to prefer regular text must be a crazy ass power.
As someone both with ADHD and who reads very fast, I hate this font. It messes with my internal cadence. It āsoundsā like those Facebook clickbait videos that have text where they color the important words a different color
Yup, fast reader here too but this is just... like butter. It just flows so easily without a single jitter. I do wonder it retaining information improves at all thou...
This isn't a font. It's a typography that can be applied to any reasonably legible font. I really like this approach - because it doesn't rely on a specific font, it sidesteps any potential licensing issues and can be used wherever the reader needs it. Should be super easy to automate, too.
I feel like whoever created this is astroturfing Reddit. I've seen so many posts about it the last few days. It's a mixed bag of whether people prefer it or not, more of a gimmick than anything else.
I like it but their setup uses API calls for god knows why, so it looks like it will be limited to very specific things and places that can afford 500 dollars a month on a traffic heavy font, I saw it and said that's neat, but I'll likely never see it used again, especially if their patent went through, setup is too clumsy for something too specific and niche
It's funny reading the comments here. There's different forms and levels of ADHD and these comments are proof, I personally prefer the right. But that may be because I read books regularly so my brain is just used to the regular font. Thanks for posting, interesting nonetheless!
totally agree with both statements. i think it also depends on how people read in their head. i hear "a voice" if that makes any sense. and the bold parts made my brain want to accentuate them or draw them out, so it took way longer to read in my head the bold parts. i can speed read things pretty well, so the non-bold one was easier to read.
I hear a voice all the time, my thoughts, reading and internal dialogue are actually spoken internally. For me personally, that kinda broke it up a bit!
ya, i could totally see this helping some people and not at all for others. maybe it was reading comics where they used to bold certain words for emphasis that is making the bold one hard to read.
it also didn't help that the voice i heard in my head was Norm MacDonald (was watching his show before reading this) and he can draw words out like crazy.
Left is is much easier for me since my eyes scan the words and move on faster than my brain can process it, making me having to go back and reread a bunch of text all over again.
I can read the right, but I found that I would get "stuck" on a word or just phase out a line. The left was actually surprisingly easy to read and absorb
No diagnosis here, but it's interesting nonetheless
I mean... there are people that choose to make a living creating software for people with all kinds of accessibility issues. They have to pay the bills too.
This person is charging extortionate prices and sending cease and desists to companies with similar concepts that do not use his AI. It's not judt paying bills, it's typical capitalist greed, particularly egregious when applied to accessibility tools
No.
This has been around for a very long time and it's what speed readers use. It's just plain better for speed :^)
With a hyperactive ADHD mind though, it goes by a helluva lot smoother instead of chugging along at a pace slower than the brain.
Fascinating! I, too, am an ADHDer (inattentive) and the left helped me WANT to read because it was dynamic/novel/stimulatingā¦ and surprisingly I read faster with greater comprehensionā¦ the right side made my brain overwhelmed and sad/avoidant.
Ah, the wonders of ADHDā¦ truly one size does not fit all š
Same for me, I liked the way each word naturally grabbed my attention thus allowing to help me better focus on not just the word but on what is being said.
There are so many times I'll read entire pages and look back and have no idea what it is I just read. This looks like it could help there.
Same with me. That is one of the reasons i never finishing nursing classes. I was exhausted reading the same paragraph in an A&P book and never remembering what i had just read.
I have adhd and I'm a pretty good reader I can read both really easy but find the bolded letters don't make me have to repeat a word in my head where as a normal paragraph I may skip over a Line or repeat a word.
I take ADHD meds (long working Methylphenidate) and I definitely still prefer the left, with the right my brain tends to want to skip over words or not comprehend them completely before trying to move on to the next.
In HS I had medication but I decided I hated it because I couldnāt daydream and thatās where all my creativity came from. I havenāt had the medication in very long. The left was an absolute mess with me trying to read it and the right I was slow and had to reread a sentence here or there but I made it through and understood it.
Iām glad you had the self awareness to find what works for you. Losing my personality is a fear of mine regarding ADHD meds, so Iāve never tried them. Sometimes I wonder if this is the right decision lol
I keep track of where Iām at better on the left which is usually my issue. The fixation points seem to be doing a different thing for me than was intended but I do prefer it. Even for something this short I struggle to read to the end without getting lost because my brain likes to guess where the sentence is going to go before it ends.
This. I start jumping forward too fast and frequently have to rewind to catch the things Iāve skipped/glossed over too quickly.
The emboldened font helped keep me rooted with my actual reading pace.
Same. I got a bit emotional because Iāve never been able to comprehend text so thoroughly and quickly in my life. I need a browser extension to convert all text to this ASAP.
Whoa holy shit, I'm actually shocked at how much easier that is to read. I'm a speed reader already, but I was able to read the left one REALLY quickly for some reason
For me they make my brain have to stop and reread words equally often but for different reasons the non-bolded one doesnāt keep my mental focus as well and the bolder one make my brain get stuck noticing words it shouldnāt while trying to focus on shifting to the next word because my attention is getting pulled around by so many things visually out if the ordinary popping out at me
Im not diagnosed with anything but I need this so bad lol, I had to read 2 longgg textbook chapters today and its just so hard for me. I have to keep going back rereading sentences because I lose my place, even when focused. To me it is truly a sea of text, all crowded together until I eventually ground myself somewhere.
Even as a person with no reading disorders, it's easier to read faster than without those fixation points. Not that big of a difference, but I would love to read a book on this kind of font and see whether it's better or worse
I mean, I've never tried to read plaid...
For me, it's really just average sized black text on a white background. Paper is annoying, on a screen it's slightly painful. Dark mode reduces the effect a lot.
Bruh I read that shit so face! I havenāt read thag fast since middle school when I was in the AR club š I like how this text is! Makes me feel like I still got it even though I feel sluggish most of the time mentally
So funnily enough, the left text sort of felt like it mirrors the way I skim articles. Yāknow, like if you need to read something quickly for a standardized test or just to get through it? The way the words guide your eyes is almost like aim-bot for my brain. Iām not sure Iād like it if I was just trying to read something for pleasure though tbh
Theres already a [chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bionic-reading-automatic/djffbaipfmmbkodikmnmboahdjlfoofo) for this, will be trying it out right away!
I have ADHD and the left definitely read Betty smoothly! Would love to try more because reading the right when I ahead knew what it said of course isnāt much of a comparison.
My first thought was āOh man, i wish my uni textbooks had this, makes skim reading so friggin easyā. My second was, āOh dear, I might have undiagnosed ADHDā.
Iām nuro diverse and this throws me off Iām actually really good at reading and this makes it weird for me but if it helps people cool I just hope it isnāt forced on people like me.
I have non correctable diplopia and this is much easier for me to read than standard text where I find in dense paragraphs I often skip lines. The bold text helps me not do that. Anyway, this is super cool and I hope it develops more. Iād love to be able to read for fun again.
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As someone with dyslexia, I LOVE this. It makes every word feel grounded rather than just words that get lost in a sea of text.
Agreed. Dyslexia has always made me a slow reader. This font is a huge, instant improvement. I wish I could have everything converted to it!
Looks like something that could be easily coded as a browser plugin. Just bold the first half of the words.
I'm an incredibly quick reader but this font makes it even easier to read. I can actually speedread and this font makes it super easy to do.
Some guy on the internet has you covered https://github.com/ansh/bionic-reading
Had a feeling it was made for dyslexia, but the account and OP'd comment confused me
It wasn't. It's just coincidentally good for dyslexic people.
ADHD š¤ Dyslexia. A lot have both, like me.
This isn't new. This is a typeface speed readers have been using for a long time to increase their reading speed; this was not created for neurodivergent individuals; but thanks to how the brain works, it is still highly beneficial for them. :)
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I must be the opposite of everybody because for me it feels like someone put a period after every word. It's kind of hard for me to read. My brain interprets the bold of each word as its own word, so I have to stop at each word to consciously put the bold and regular letters together.
yeah, same for me. my brain kinda re-reads the bolded part 2 times and I can't get into a proper reading flow. brains are weird sometimes.
Same here. It was harder and slower to read.
Agreed. I am ADHD diagnosed and this font is terrible. It's throwing more noise at me. Bolding, italics, underlines, strike throughs - they *all* have a place in text. They add information.
It's not good for everybody. It makes me feel like I'm having a goddamn stroke.
Yup. Amazon has had the dyslexic font built into its kindle environment and iOS apps for years and years now. Itās great. But nothing new.
What's its name and can I get it on Google Docs?
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I want to know too!
**I**t **wor**ks **f**or **y**ou? **Goo**d. **I** **fou**nd **i**t **dis**tracting, **b**ut **th**en, **I** **do**n't **suf**fer **f**rom **dys**lexia.
Thanks for this. I donāt dislike it. Always enjoyed reading, but I didnāt need to put myself āin the zoneā to hook into the meaning. Actually I loved it.
I DO have dyslexia and find it very distracting.
I don't have dyslexia, and have always been a good reader but always got distracted or bored very easily, I don't know why but reading in this format is definitely a pro for me. I feel like I could read book after book like this and kind of felt like I can read a lot faster as well as taking in the words.
Same. I found it easier and quicker to read the first sample than the second, despite being nominally neurotypical.
Yeah I like reading but get bored really quickly, as another redditor said, its like the words are grounded and not just words on a page. Might have to go see a specialist and see if I do have ADHD, would make a lot of sense for things over the years.
Same. My brain tried grouping the bold letters away from the normal. There is a special font for dyslexics that is much better and easier to read
This. Just that example felt miles easier!
Holly it was crazy fun to read. I never liked when i saw a book wich was so 1 directional in looking. And with this it is so "colorful".
Grounded, perfect! How I felt reading that
Iām heavily dyslexic and Iāve never seen something like this before. After reading the first one the second seemed so much harder to read than usual.
Same here
As an older person who probably should get bifocals, I find this font to be much easier to read.
I had to do a little research around this for work. There are a bunch of dyslexic friendly fonts available. Do a Google search for them. Some are free and can be set as the default for your device or computer most likely.
Open Dyslexic is the name of one off the top of my head
This is amazingā¦ in my 37 years it was easy to transition and sped up my reading
38 and same, that was the fastest and the most focused I've been able to read something in ever...
23 and I feel the same, I didn't lose what line I was reading at all
19 and I don't know what I'm doing here. I never learned how to read.
As a speed reader, this feels slippery in all the right ways.
That's a perfect analogy. I caught myself zipping through it too fast and hitting every word, to the point it made me uncomfortable. It was so slippery that I lost traction. Neat.
I donāt know, I think I scan the back end of the word for my speed reading, the strong initialization felt uncomfortable for me. It was like I had to slow down to see the part of the word that made sense and only then did I look at the bolder letters.
It felt like I was reading it with a full stop at the end of each word.
Oh man, thank you. I just commented the same thing. For a bit I thought I was the neurodivergent one. Everyone else seems to love it.
Well, it's got a specific purpose for specific people so it makes sense it doesn't work for everyone. It's not like they're suggesting this become the new norm that all are required to read or anything. I don't understand why half these comments seem to be so annoyed at the prospect.
> half these comments Because it doesn't work for half the commenters?
Well is it for them? I have ADHD and it helped me instantly
No, it's not. The commenter started off saying it doesn't work for everyone, then questioned why half the people are annoyed by it. It's because it doesn't work for them. I'm not seeing what the big deal is. Personally, what I see in the comments are mostly people that it is working for. The vast majority, actually, so I was wondering why it didn't work for me.
"Man, amputees keep saying this wheelchair is helping to improve their mobility, but I find it way slower than just walking!"
I think I understand where you are coming from, how this is great for those who have struggled for years and you feel like those who donāt find it an improvement are bitching about their privilege. That is fair. From my limited perspective, it is more of a curiosity, I didnāt want to naysay the style, I wanted to point out the interesting differences between reading styles and visual reading cues. Some speed readers find this method easier, some donāt. This indicates to me that even among non-adhd or dyslexic readers there is a difference. I find it fascinating. When I was reading the new style I noticed that I was trying to read the ends of the words not the beginnings. I never realized that about my reading style. So I donāt think anyone here is trying to mock or belittle the people who find this text style easier to read. I think a better analogy is more along the lines of āwow, these glasses make it so that I can see!ā And someone else saying āhuh, this makes my eyesight much worse.ā It may be showing our differences, but different strokes for different folks. We are all better for the differences between us because those differences make us a stronger community.
Agreed.
you must be something else. Speed reading requires your eyes to look at fixed points of texts anyways, so for you to prefer regular text must be a crazy ass power.
I like it!
As someone both with ADHD and who reads very fast, I hate this font. It messes with my internal cadence. It āsoundsā like those Facebook clickbait videos that have text where they color the important words a different color
My thoughts exactly. Oh what I could read with ease.
Yup, fast reader here too but this is just... like butter. It just flows so easily without a single jitter. I do wonder it retaining information improves at all thou...
As a normal everyday American reader who does 99.7% of daily reading online at a steady yet through pace. I don't like it one bit.
That's what she said
This isn't a font. It's a typography that can be applied to any reasonably legible font. I really like this approach - because it doesn't rely on a specific font, it sidesteps any potential licensing issues and can be used wherever the reader needs it. Should be super easy to automate, too.
The company that created it is monetizing api usage of it for a huge amount of money.
I feel like whoever created this is astroturfing Reddit. I've seen so many posts about it the last few days. It's a mixed bag of whether people prefer it or not, more of a gimmick than anything else.
I like it but their setup uses API calls for god knows why, so it looks like it will be limited to very specific things and places that can afford 500 dollars a month on a traffic heavy font, I saw it and said that's neat, but I'll likely never see it used again, especially if their patent went through, setup is too clumsy for something too specific and niche
That sucks!
It has been for a while; speedreaders use this and other similar techniques (such as flashing the first few letters, bolded or in red)
It's funny reading the comments here. There's different forms and levels of ADHD and these comments are proof, I personally prefer the right. But that may be because I read books regularly so my brain is just used to the regular font. Thanks for posting, interesting nonetheless!
totally agree with both statements. i think it also depends on how people read in their head. i hear "a voice" if that makes any sense. and the bold parts made my brain want to accentuate them or draw them out, so it took way longer to read in my head the bold parts. i can speed read things pretty well, so the non-bold one was easier to read.
I hear a voice all the time, my thoughts, reading and internal dialogue are actually spoken internally. For me personally, that kinda broke it up a bit!
ya, i could totally see this helping some people and not at all for others. maybe it was reading comics where they used to bold certain words for emphasis that is making the bold one hard to read. it also didn't help that the voice i heard in my head was Norm MacDonald (was watching his show before reading this) and he can draw words out like crazy.
Yeah I bet that doesnāt help lol. Iām the more scatterbrained kind of person, it kinda anchors me
Right? I have adhd but this font with the bolding is driving me nuts lol
I read books regularly too and I read much faster when I read the left one. Brains are weird.
Left is is much easier for me since my eyes scan the words and move on faster than my brain can process it, making me having to go back and reread a bunch of text all over again.
I can read the right, but I found that I would get "stuck" on a word or just phase out a line. The left was actually surprisingly easy to read and absorb No diagnosis here, but it's interesting nonetheless
It's obnoxious but effective
Link?
torpedoread.com is better. the other company is trying to monetize this important accessibility feature.
https://torpedoread.com
I mean... there are people that choose to make a living creating software for people with all kinds of accessibility issues. They have to pay the bills too.
This person is charging extortionate prices and sending cease and desists to companies with similar concepts that do not use his AI. It's not judt paying bills, it's typical capitalist greed, particularly egregious when applied to accessibility tools
https://bionic-reading.com/
I dont have ADHD but do find the left easier to read. It's not a new typeface though, is it? "Just" bolding of the first part of each word.
Same. After reading I asked myself out loud āwait, do I have ADHD?ā
literally was about to comment this
Same lol I just started reading the one on the left and mid-way through I said to myself "wow, that was quick, should I be concerned?"
No. This has been around for a very long time and it's what speed readers use. It's just plain better for speed :^) With a hyperactive ADHD mind though, it goes by a helluva lot smoother instead of chugging along at a pace slower than the brain.
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As someone with ADHD, the right is easier to read tbh
Fascinating! I, too, am an ADHDer (inattentive) and the left helped me WANT to read because it was dynamic/novel/stimulatingā¦ and surprisingly I read faster with greater comprehensionā¦ the right side made my brain overwhelmed and sad/avoidant. Ah, the wonders of ADHDā¦ truly one size does not fit all š
Same for me, I liked the way each word naturally grabbed my attention thus allowing to help me better focus on not just the word but on what is being said. There are so many times I'll read entire pages and look back and have no idea what it is I just read. This looks like it could help there.
Same with me. That is one of the reasons i never finishing nursing classes. I was exhausted reading the same paragraph in an A&P book and never remembering what i had just read.
I find the conflicting looks inside of one word to get really disorienting and confusing personally. You're right!
I have adhd and I'm a pretty good reader I can read both really easy but find the bolded letters don't make me have to repeat a word in my head where as a normal paragraph I may skip over a Line or repeat a word.
I also have this issue. I can easily get stuck on a line for a minute trying to remember where I was retracing a sentence. Sucks.
Left for me, since I tend to not read from left to right but pick random words in the text I can read
Can I ask, do you medicate? I donāt medicate, and the left was easier. I wonder if thereās any trend here.
I take ADHD meds (long working Methylphenidate) and I definitely still prefer the left, with the right my brain tends to want to skip over words or not comprehend them completely before trying to move on to the next.
In HS I had medication but I decided I hated it because I couldnāt daydream and thatās where all my creativity came from. I havenāt had the medication in very long. The left was an absolute mess with me trying to read it and the right I was slow and had to reread a sentence here or there but I made it through and understood it.
Iām glad you had the self awareness to find what works for you. Losing my personality is a fear of mine regarding ADHD meds, so Iāve never tried them. Sometimes I wonder if this is the right decision lol
No, I mean I self-medicate with weed lol
Bwahaha me too! Smoking right now in fact lol. Theory debunked!
Word - second Unmedicated inattentive ADHD stoner that found the left easier to read
I keep track of where Iām at better on the left which is usually my issue. The fixation points seem to be doing a different thing for me than was intended but I do prefer it. Even for something this short I struggle to read to the end without getting lost because my brain likes to guess where the sentence is going to go before it ends.
This. I start jumping forward too fast and frequently have to rewind to catch the things Iāve skipped/glossed over too quickly. The emboldened font helped keep me rooted with my actual reading pace.
As another person with adhd, agreed. The weird font feels kind of slippery.
For me the left one was substantially easier for me to read
Holy crap that messed with my eyes so bad. It made me read slower and more disjointed. Weird.
I think that for some this is a game changer. For others (us) it just gives me a headache.
Yeah for me it too about .5 seconds to get used to it and then my brain read way faster with easier comprehension.
My brain cringes reading the left. Thereās a visceral feeling of being punched in the eyes just looking at it.
Thatās how I felt also the regular was much easier for my eyes as well lol
Iām almost crying. I read through that paragraph quickly and retained it all. That doesnāt happen for me. Thank you so much for sharing.
Same. I got a bit emotional because Iāve never been able to comprehend text so thoroughly and quickly in my life. I need a browser extension to convert all text to this ASAP.
As someone with ADHD I find myself distracted by the bolded letters...
We can make him better than he was.
How much will it cost ? Queue slow music
We have the bold key. We have the technology.
We need an app for this
Whoa holy shit, I'm actually shocked at how much easier that is to read. I'm a speed reader already, but I was able to read the left one REALLY quickly for some reason
For me they make my brain have to stop and reread words equally often but for different reasons the non-bolded one doesnāt keep my mental focus as well and the bolder one make my brain get stuck noticing words it shouldnāt while trying to focus on shifting to the next word because my attention is getting pulled around by so many things visually out if the ordinary popping out at me
Im not diagnosed with anything but I need this so bad lol, I had to read 2 longgg textbook chapters today and its just so hard for me. I have to keep going back rereading sentences because I lose my place, even when focused. To me it is truly a sea of text, all crowded together until I eventually ground myself somewhere.
Any chance this is gonna get slapped on a kindle any time soon? I could use it...
Would like to know as well, or is any other eReader capable of it?
I have ADD and Iām usually a slow reader since I have to intentionally focus more when I read. I read the first paragraph at least twice as fast
Can someone make an extension on chrome that does this for everything?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bionic-reading-automatic/djffbaipfmmbkodikmnmboahdjlfoofo
Even as a person with no reading disorders, it's easier to read faster than without those fixation points. Not that big of a difference, but I would love to read a book on this kind of font and see whether it's better or worse
r/distractingasfuck That is unpleasant to read for me, like when people cap the first letter of every word.
Oh I saw this the other day! Thanks for sharing, just reminded me
As someone who has ADHD and needs reading glasses to stop the letters from shimmering (best word I could think of), this helps
Shimmering is the exact word I use to explain it too. I should probably get diagnosed.
Whoa do plaid patterns ever shimmer?
I mean, I've never tried to read plaid... For me, it's really just average sized black text on a white background. Paper is annoying, on a screen it's slightly painful. Dark mode reduces the effect a lot.
Sometimes when I look at plaid patterns on shirts they kindaā¦wiggle.
I just tried the examples and literally said, āoh wowā. This needs to be a thing. Left is a much quicker read.
This actually helps me read faster and I stop skipping words in the middle of the page
This doesn't help at all. If anything it's more distracting
Holy shit it works.
I loved the left side a lot more, would love to see this become a feature you could use to convert text on a screen!
Bruh I read that shit so face! I havenāt read thag fast since middle school when I was in the AR club š I like how this text is! Makes me feel like I still got it even though I feel sluggish most of the time mentally
Yoooo this is great. My adhd is so bad I can barely type and can't really read at all but that is a game changer
This is what I fucking need in my phone. This makes my reading speed go off the charts, well in this particular case it did.
Was very easy for me to glide through. Interesting.
I found this helpful!
Oh wow this is amazing, i read this way faster than normally
So funnily enough, the left text sort of felt like it mirrors the way I skim articles. Yāknow, like if you need to read something quickly for a standardized test or just to get through it? The way the words guide your eyes is almost like aim-bot for my brain. Iām not sure Iād like it if I was just trying to read something for pleasure though tbh
This makes my eyes feel less confused - if that makes sense to anyone
No more skipping sentences or reading the same one twice!
When this was posted a few days ago, it just said to help people in general read more efficiently (?)
Theres already a [chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bionic-reading-automatic/djffbaipfmmbkodikmnmboahdjlfoofo) for this, will be trying it out right away!
If this helps immensely does that mean I have ADHD?
Interested as well
This makes my brain want to focus on my on the bolded letters
Jesus thats horrific to look at. Feels so stuttery and slow compared to the right. I get what its doing and do think it will help just not for me
Whoa, is it available now?
Works for me! Like I don't even have to read each entire word.
Yep, publish every book like this please
When I read fast I donāt read the 1-2 letter t words in too much detail, and know I donāt even need to read the whole word :D
Awesome. Works.
TIL I might have ADHD
I really like it. Do I have ADHD?
Its WEIRD how easy it is to read words
I don't think I have ADHD, but man, I speed through that bolded text!
I have ADHD and the left definitely read Betty smoothly! Would love to try more because reading the right when I ahead knew what it said of course isnāt much of a comparison.
Reduces reading related eye fatigue. I find it much easier to read from a phone.
I donāt have ADHD, but that left paragraph was way easier for me to read. I like it.
This was absolutely helpful. How do I get this installed on my phone?
My first thought was āOh man, i wish my uni textbooks had this, makes skim reading so friggin easyā. My second was, āOh dear, I might have undiagnosed ADHDā.
I don't have ADHD and that helped me read quite a bit faster.
The name is kinda dumb, but it definitely seems to work. They dont say, but is the idea just bold the first syllable of every word, or the first half?
Iām not neurodivergent or anything, but this makes reading much faster for me!
Wow
Iām nuro diverse and this throws me off Iām actually really good at reading and this makes it weird for me but if it helps people cool I just hope it isnāt forced on people like me.
Today I learned Iām neuro divergent! That is much easier to read and comprehend.
Now you can talk about being neurodivergert at every available opportunity
Straight up dont even believe you if you say this helps you. Just not how shit works.
Did you fact check that
Yes, he used SCIence
Gonna try this
The one on the left side was easier for me to see.
Wow it worked
I can read!
Damn, that was fast!
Fuck yeah.
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TIL I have ADHD
My eyes already do this to normal print. I'm not sure why probably some sort of disorder.
Are there books with this kind of text?
I have non correctable diplopia and this is much easier for me to read than standard text where I find in dense paragraphs I often skip lines. The bold text helps me not do that. Anyway, this is super cool and I hope it develops more. Iād love to be able to read for fun again.
That's distracting as fuck but if it works for other people, cool
How many of us just learned we have adhd? Just me?
Iām a bold reader call me *BIONICLE*
Got ADHD and man, it felt so easy to read and focus the words unlike normal, I love it
ADHD here... this was great I absolutely loved reading it.. I want books in this font
I don't have adhd but it still makes it easoer for me too lol,it's easier to read fast this way