Speed reading, watching and listening

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Another thing only an aspie would do:
I experimented with fast reading and fast forward on my old VCR machine when I was 16-18 yrs. I was convinced I could speed up the information my eyes and brain processed. Unfortunally, the old VCR's had a problem when fast forwarding: The image became blurry and full og stripes, and the subtext was lost. However ending credits went very well and I actually manage to read really quick and remember what I have read. Later on, high quality VCR's could fast forward without stripes, so I could look at documentaries at high speed!
I experimented also with old turntables and listended to LP records at 45 speed instead of 33 1/3. I can reccoment Manfred Manns "Solar Fire" in 45 speed! (If you can ignore the smurf sound, it actually become cool)

I finally found no use for this experiment and left it all entering the slow grown up world. (But I still read books very fast. My teacher was angry at me for delivering back books I just borrowed at school library, thinking I gave a crap in reading. Still I could answer all his control questions. )

Anyone else tried speed watching and listening?

Yes, also as a child. When I try to do it now I find it's rather exhausting; I probably process fewer pages of written material per unit time in such a hurry than if I do while taking my time.

This is interesting. I can speed read with a lot of retention but I find I process the information differently when I do.

Not only was I reading at a Junior high level in Grade 3, but I learned to speed read on my own about the same time. I just wish I had been as good at math as I am at reading..

Sincerely,
Matthew

During high school, I was clocked at 1000 words per minute with good comprehension. I can still kick it into high gear when I try.

I do this a lot. Ive gotten in trouble for it several times, such as once in science we were assigned to read a chapter (about 20 pages) and answer a few questions about it. I had it finished before she even finished handing the papers out to the other students, and she assumed I cheated somehow. On several other occasions in that class, she took my other books away because I was reading them instead of the science book (having read it, learned everything in it, and rewrote error filled sections within the first 3 days).

Librarians seem to like me though, since I never check anything out for more than a day unless its over a thousand pages or so.

I read very fast - I didn't really try fast reading out though until I got into university. I would read entire books the day before I needed to have them read - sometimes the day of (unless I had to write a paper about it or something).

I also can listen to very very fast talking - I can easily hear every single word when a computer talks to me at 500 words per minute. I had a blind girlfriend once, and she used screen reader programs that would go that fast on her computer and phone, and I had no problem understanding them from the very first time I met her - to which she was surprised - I even think I could have it go faster, but the program doesn't allow it. It did spoil me a little though - my phone's voicemail uses a robotic voice which talks VERY SLOWLY (to my ears), and it's so slow I cannot check my messages because the slowness of the voice frustrates me.

Is this an aspie trait? Well, I'll be damned! I saw quite a few foreign films by fast forwarding through them. I read the dialogue so I got the gist of the story. Some movies seemed like a yawning bore from the first 10-15 minutes. I had no option but to fast forward since I'd already rented them on video and wanted to get my money's worth.