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For anyone else whom speed reading suddenly came to mind, to enhance your subtitle reading skills :u
It's relevant because the key to speed reading is not recognizing the shape of each word at a time faster, but reading words in larger and larger groups at a time faster. You know that voice inside your head reading the words aloud? Soon, you just stop hearing it. Then you realize speed reading was a skill of speed comprehension the whole time.
I'm in the "one. Word. At. A. Time. In. Rapidfire. Even. If. Someone's. Speaking. Them. At. One. Point. Seventy. Five. Ex. Speed. Sucks. Ass." camp because, same, it distracts me from the rest of the screen, sometimes from the content. I can totally listen to a longform video at that speech pace, but if I had to watch. Subtitles. One. Word. At. A. Time, I'd claw my eyes out.