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You can increase the speed to any WPM you want using chrome developer tools:

In the dropdown menu where you select a WPM rate, change the "data-value" attribute values in the li elements to whatever you want.

Also, although it helped my speed reading considerably, I would not adopt the current version of the product because it does not allow for pauses (eyes get tired, sneezes, blinks, distractions, etc), re-reads, time to ponder, etc. However, I think these problems can be addressed with very simple UI tweeks:

1. (On mobile) Push to read. Release to pause

2. Scroll to go back/forward

3. Ability to start and skip to other areas in the text, probably via some table of contents

4. Some estimate of remaining pages/words. I like to scroll ahead to see how long an article is. If the article is gone, I have no way of sensing duration. A displayed word count might help, but I'd imagine that few people can easily process number of words as a duration.




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