Become a SuperLearner® 2. 0: Learn Speed Reading & Advanced Memory Techniques (New & Improved!)
Jonathan Levi · Entrepreneur, Eclectic, Lifehacker, SuperLearner
A methodical, demonstration-heavy course in speed reading and memory technique, best for readers willing to actually practice for weeks.
What it actually teaches
The course is built around two connected skill sets: reading faster while keeping comprehension high, and remembering what you take in. It does not treat these as separate topics bolted together. Instead it argues, and structures its lessons around the idea, that raw speed reading is useless without a memory system to catch what flies past, so the two threads run in parallel throughout.
The memory half leans on well-established mnemonic techniques rather than inventing new ones. Markers, vivid, often absurd mental images standing in for facts or concepts, are the basic unit. From there the course builds up to chunking those markers together, linking them into sequences, and eventually placing them inside memory palaces, imagined buildings where each room or shelf holds a piece of information. The memory palace lesson is a highlight: it walks through the history of the technique, from the Greek poet Simonides to modern memory competitors, and gives specific, sometimes deliberately ridiculous example images (a golf-obsessed boss as a Mario villain, for instance) to illustrate how memorable markers should be constructed.
The reading half covers chunking as a way of reducing the number of eye fixations per line, then addresses the harder problem: how to keep comprehension from collapsing at higher speeds. The course's answer is a disciplined pause structure. Readers are told to take a short beat after each paragraph to form markers, a longer pause every few pages to link them, and a substantial pause between chapters to review the whole set. This is a specific, teachable protocol rather than vague encouragement to "read faster," and it is one of the more practical takeaways in the entire course.
Where it holds up, and where it does not
The demonstration lessons are a genuine strength. Rather than only describing a technique in the abstract, the course shows it being applied to random facts and to real passages of text, which gives learners a template to imitate rather than just a concept to remember.
The closing material on digital habits, particularly the walkthrough of exporting Kindle highlights into Evernote and feeding a subset into spaced repetition tools like Anki, is practical and specific enough to implement immediately, and it extends the course's usefulness well past the final lesson.
The course is less rigorous as a scientific treatment of learning than its framing suggests. It leans heavily on the instructor's own experience and anecdotes rather than citing research in any sustained way, and claims like tripling reading speed with above-average comprehension are asserted more than demonstrated within the course itself. It is also explicit that success depends on weeks of outside practice, several sessions a week, which means the course itself is only the instruction manual; the actual skill-building happens later, off-screen, and results will vary heavily by how consistently a learner does that work.
Structurally, the course moves logically from foundational memory concepts through visualization, markers, chunking, and finally into applied reading and spaced repetition, ending with a clear call to apply the system to a real learning project. That arc holds together well, even if the payoff depends entirely on the learner's follow-through after the lessons end.
The standout
The layered marker-review system, pausing briefly after each paragraph, longer between pages, and longest between chapters, gives speed reading a concrete retention mechanism that most speed reading material skips entirely.
What you will learn
- How to build and use visual memory markers to encode abstract text into concrete images
- The chunking technique for taking in multiple words per eye fixation instead of reading word by word
- How to construct and populate a memory palace (loci method) for ordered recall of lists, speeches, or facts
- A pause-and-review rhythm (per paragraph, per page, per chapter) for retaining what is read at speed
- How to set up digital spaced repetition using Kindle highlights, Evernote, and tools like Anki
- A self-directed practice routine for building speed reading and memory into daily habits over 7 to 9 weeks
Best for: Self-motivated readers, students, or professionals who read heavily and are willing to commit weeks of daily practice to change ingrained reading habits.
Skip it if: Anyone wanting a passive watch-and-absorb course or a quick fix, since the techniques only work with sustained homework and habit change.