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Your program is one of the most useful things that I have ever found using the internet. RocketReader has easily doubled my reading speed, and tripled my comprehension. It is by far one of the best programs that I have purchased for myself. Thanks. D Bialek, CA USA

How RocketReader Gets Rid of Nasty Reading Habits

Tired of reading slow?
Is reading slow and frustrating?
The three nasty reading habits:
  • excessive eye use
  • saying words out loud, under your breath or in your head (vocalization)
  • skipping back to earlier words.

Nasty reading habits are learned over your lifetime. To eliminate them you need specific training.

RocketReader trains you to get rid of nasty reading habits, so you become a fast and accurate reader. RocketReader has five highly effective methods to get rid of nasty reading habits. Plus it's the only speed reading software which includes over 500 text readings - all with comprehension tests.

Excessive Eye Use - The First Nasty Reading Habit

Reading a sentence requires eye movements and fixations. If you read each syllable or word, then this involves many eye movements and fixations. You do a lot of work for little information.

Take a look at how a slow reader would read the following sentence:

(Our) (big)(gest) (ex)(pan)(sion) (op)(por)(tu)(nity) (will) (come) (from) (vol)(ume) (li)(cen)(sing) (in) (Jap)(an).

This involves 21 tedious eye movements and 21 eye fixations i.e. 42 different eye operations. This is why slow readers get tired quickly and have poor comprehension. They have poor confidence when reading, avoid it and read only when they must.

A fast readers would read it like this:

(Our biggest expansion opportunity) (will come) (from volume licensing) (in Japan).

Just four eye movements and 4 eye fixations (8 eye operations). Four times less work than a slow reader and, therefore, much better speed and comprehension.

RocketReader trains your eyes and brain to accurately read a block of words with a single eye glance. This technique is proven to improve reading speed (see the Research section for more details). This results in you having increased reading speed, comprehension, stamina and confidence.

Vocalization

RocketReader significantly increases reading speed by breaking what is termed the "vocalization barrier". Vocalization occurs when the reader says each word in his or her head with or without moving the speech organs. Subvocalization dramatically reduces your reading speed because you can read much faster than you speak. This barrier limits you to around 200 words per minute.

Phonic sounds are taught as part of the process of learning to read. For fast accurate reading, a transformation from phonic to visual reader is needed. RocketReader uses flash and speed training to eliminate vocalization.

Skip-back

Skip-back occurs when you go back and re-read words or passages you've already read. This slows you down. The speed reading exercise in RocketReader trains you to eliminate this nasty habit. By developing reading rhythm, the readings exercise also prevents skip-back.

Purpose of the Training Exercises

Fast and accurate reading - critical to exam success
exam success

RocketReader uses the following highly effective speed reading techniques, exercises and tests to train you to read faster and more accurately:

  • to eliminate excessive eye use and vocalization - flash training
  • to improve your word blocking efficiency - a unique grouping exercise
  • to accelerate your reading speed, improve reading efficiency and eliminate skip-back - speed training
  • to simulate written page reading - over 500 texts to use in the readings exercise
  • to test your understanding and retention - comprehension testing of all text readings
  • to test your reading speed - speed timing.

Focus on Vocabulary

For a speed reading program, RocketReader also has a unique focus on vocabulary development. Why? Because there is a direct correlation between vocabulary and reading speed and accuracy. The larger your vocabulary the easier it is to make sense of text. Numerous studies have established that vocabulary instruction is important for reading fluency and comprehension. (See the National Reading Panel's report "Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction" for a discussion of those studies).

Unknown words interrupt the flow of your reading, cause frustration and reduce comprehension. They are like speed bumps slowing your down. Being introduced to new words is the key to improving your vocabulary. So, in RocketReader there are over 500 texts with comprehension tests and an enormous database of 28 000 words and 120 000 phrases for the flash training exercise. There are also 19 vocabulary sets and 7 sets on roots, prefixes and suffixes with definitions, so you can expand your vocabulary.

What's included when you buy RocketReader

Benefits:
  • Increase your reading speed by using the five effective training exercises
  • Improve your comprehension and retention at the same time - all readings have comprehension tests
  • Maximize your learning by training with material at the right grade level - there are over 500 graded readings for adults, students and children 7+
  • Learn at accelerated rates - all training is optimized so you are challenged and your training is optimized
  • Use your own documents in the training exercise - learn to speed read using material you need to know for your studies and work
  • Learn the material you need to know - easily create your own comprehension tests
  • Get high SAT scores - includes a special SAT training module with special vocabulary sets
  • See how your speed and comprehension is improving - detailed printable reports and graphs are available
  • Great for the whole family - records, tracks and reports on progress for multiple users
I have more than tripled my reading speed, all thanks to RocketReader! I love it.M Smith, New Providence BS

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Why RocketReader?

You may have heard Woody Allen's joke about speed reading:

"I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

(The Penguin English Edition is 1472 pages long. If Woody read it in 20 minutes, he would have read 73 pages in one minute).

Unleash your reading genius with RocketReader
unleash your reading genius
RocketReader is not about such gimmicks like "read 10,000 words per minute". Nor is it about photoreading. Studies have proven that very few people (if any) can "photograph" an entire page and understand it. (In a study by McNamara "Preliminary Analysis of Photoreading" the results of all measures of the photoreading technique yielded no benefits and no rapid reading rates were observed). Studies have also proven that very few people can read accurately at speeds above 800 words per minute. We do not claim that you can read 5, 8 or 10 times faster.

Do you only want to scan text and flick over pages? Or would you rather rapidly process, understand and retain information? If a book, tape, course or program focuses just on increasing reading speed and not on comprehension and retention, it simply does not fit the purpose. RocketReader focuses not only on speed reading but on comprehension and retention as well - all the vital skills that you need to succeed.

RocketReader is about setting realistic, achievable goals to improve your reading skills and working 15 minutes a day to achieve them. With just a month of training, you can double your reading speed and improve your comprehension, reading stamina and confidence. This gives you the edge you need to succeed in your studies and career. If you follow these guidelines, you will read faster and understand more.

Most people read at around 230 words a minute. If you are an average reader, there is real scope to increase your reading speed to around 460 words per minute, whilst also improving your comprehension and retention. If you already are a fast reader, you can learn to read at accelerated rates with very good comprehension.

After spending 10 minutes a day, 5 days a week for only 1 month, my reading more than doubled from 200 wpm to 450 wpm. Lastly, I find the flash lesson very valuable and the ability to read practically anything with RR a huge selling point. That's the main reason I bought it.J Goulding, IL USA

Why choose RocketReader speed reading software over a book, course or tape?

RocketReader is a better way to learn speed reading than from a book, tape or attending an expensive speed reading course. Speed reading courses, books and tapes focus on explaining how to speed read. RocketReader trains you to speed read. During a speed reading course or seminar, you might be given a few exercises but after that you are on your own. You are solely responsible for assessing your progress and determining when you are ready to go to the next level. As it's difficult to estimate progress and the complexity of the exercises needed to get ahead, you quickly become confused, frustrated and bored and stop training. RocketReader takes the headache out of assessment by taking you through a structured training program, monitoring your progress and continually adjusting the challenge level of the exercises for optimal training.

RocketReader gives you the feedback that you need to know to improve. You can quickly see how you are doing by looking at a report for the exercise you have just done or all the exercises. You can also easily print out reports of your progress.

RocketReader offers you the convenience of training at your computer - you train whenever it suits you. You may find that your skills "drop off" after a course and there's no easy way to keep your skills up to date. With RocketReader it's easy to keep your skills up to date. Just do a quick revision session on your computer.

Plus you can practice your speed reading skills on the computer. Today the computer is an essential tool for work, education and recreation. More and more information is being made available on computers as it saves costs, time and the environment. Having RocketReader on your computer means that you can have a training session whenever you have a spare 15 minutes. With RocketReader Professional you can even combine your speed reading training sessions whilst researching or surfing on the Internet. This means that you no longer need to set aside a special time for training - just use it while you research or surf the web. To start speed reading online, all you have to do is double click on the web reading shortcut on your desktop, type or paste in the URL and hit the OK button.
I AM VERY IMPRESSED!! I used it for approx. three weeks and was amazed at the results! It really is a very impressive program and well worthy of the cost. I'm surprised the cost is so low - it is worth 10 times the cost!

I have over the years read and used so called memory improvement courses and I can honestly say they have not been worth the time or the effort! Your course WORKS - there is a similar course on sale in the UK costing over £400-00 and I was talking to a personnel officer a couple of years ago who mentioned that it was a waste of time and effort not to mention money!

I honesty believe anyone who takes their time and applies their mind will be rewarded many times over. A truly great product. Keep up the good work. B Wolohan, Northants UK

Why choose RocketReader speed reading software over other programs?

tickbox RocketReader is the most comprehensive speed reading software on the market with over 500 graded readings and comprehension tests. Just compare the size of RocketReader to other speed reading downloads. The RocketReader download is highly compressed and still 8 MBytes. The other downloads are typically less than 5 MBytes.
tickbox It is important to train with reading material at the right level for your ability, so you don't become discouraged. All readings are sorted by category and grade level. With RocketReader Professional you can get a detailed analysis of the level of difficulty of any of the 500 readings. Readability tools such as Flesch-Kincaid look at 4 indicators. The RocketReader readability analysis tool looks at 12 indicators. You can even analyze the complexity of any text document on your computer. This means you can easily find out the complexity (grade level) of your own material that you have selected to use in the training exercises.
tickbox RocketReader is the only speed reading software which includes a SAT preparation module with tips on taking the SAT and vocabulary, sentence completion and critical reading sets. Vocabulary, sentence completion and passage based reading are all examined in the SAT Reasoning Test. If you are preparing for the SAT, then RocketReader is the speed reading program to use.

tickbox RocketReader is a pioneer in the field of speed reading software. RocketReader was created in 1995 and has been improved and extended over an extensive period of time. The current edition, version 8.3, is highly stable and effective.

I was very much surprised the other day when I began reading reports at work and my eyes began reading at the speed from RR. It surprised me because I made no conscious effort to do so.

The program continues to perform as advertised but I can't help wondering why no one has done this before. Before I purchased your program I searched high and low for other computer based programs, but only found one other that wasn't as good.

K Craig, MD USA
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Both RocketReader and RocketReader Professional come with an unconditional 30 day money-back guarantee. It's simple. If you are not satisfied, simply remove/return your copy and contact for a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

Fast Results - Terrific Benefits

Reading performance - critical to career success
Professional advancement

By training with RocketReader for 15 minutes a day your reading speed and comprehension will improve. After just one month your reading speed and comprehension will be significantly improved - you can double your reading speed and remember much more.

Better comprehension means that you will understand and remember more than at your old speed. This is because you not only learn to read faster - you learn to read faster and more accurately.

There are great benefits associated with being a fast and accurate reader:

  • Improved grades and exam results - from reading more and being able to prepare and perform better
  • Greater knowledge - from reading more
  • Wealth - by knowing more - reading ability is your ticket to a higher paying and more satisfying career
  • More FREE TIME - from reading quicker
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System Requirements

  • PC software
  • Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows Vista
  • 11 Mbytes (download) or 40 MBytes free hard drive space (CD)
  • CD-ROM (CD only)
  • Sound card and speakers
  • Internet connection for web features of RocketReader Professional

Mac or Linux users, click to try RocketReader Online.

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