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Super-Speed Reading
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Everybody knows smart people love reading. That's why surrounding a character with big, thick, difficult-looking books whenever possible is considered an acceptable way of indicating that that person is meant to be brainy. Every now and then, though, you'll find yourself in a situation where you want to establish a character as even smarter than your run-of-the-mill smart guy. You may even want to convey that they're some kind of bona fide genius. So what do you do? Easy. You show them reading really, really fast. Super-Speed Readers are characters who are seen turning the pages of books at improbable speeds, presumably retaining all of the information they're flipping through, as a way of demonstrating their intelligence. While it is possible for the audience to learn a character has this ability in some other way, in visual media, it's fairly common for a scene to be present where we actually get to see this feat performed, most likely because occasions where high IQ can actually be translated into to exciting visuals are few and far between. Disappointingly, speed reading in Real Life is not actually a function of raw IQ, but a learned skill which involves tedious practice and sacrificing some degree of comprehension in favor of speed. Also, in order to make this sort of thing look impressive on film, it's generally necessary to depict characters reading at a rate that would noticeably exceed those of the fastest known real-life speed readers, if anyone in the audience were to get out a stopwatch and do the math. Neither of these things are of any concern when a speed reading character is meant to be supernaturally intelligent, though, which is often the case when this trope is in play. One of the things the other 90% of Your Brain is used for. Often seen alongside, or even conflated with, Photographic Memory. Potentially a skill of the TV Genius, particularly when he has an IQ score that is too high to make sense. The Emergent Human will use this skill to get caught up on the sum total of human knowledge over a long weekend. Don't expect anyone to ever get carpal tunnel syndrome from turning thousands of pages per minute — the less-glamourous Required Secondary Power of "Super Page Turning" is bundled in for free. |
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Exaggerated with superpowers in The Meteor Man, who can absorb the contents of a book by touching it. | |
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In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie at one point mentions he can read a page per second. | |
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Sylvester Dodd of Scorpion possesses this ability. One episode revolved around his reading 100 pages worth of classified information in the scant few minutes he had. Later that same episode, he reads about 30 pages worth of information in the time it took for it to rapidly flash across the screen. | |
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Belgarath of The Belgariad mentions offhand that he can read and comprehend a whole sentence in a glance. His daughter, Polgara, can read a whole paragraph in the same time. | |
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The Simpsons: Lisa and her soon-to-be boyfriend bond over speed-reading the one textbook they both wanted in the episode "Lisa's Wedding". They appear to finish it in an afternoon. In "They Saved Lisa's Brain", the whole Mensa group including Lisa finished reading the town charter (which is a scroll-sized page) in seconds. |
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Professor Shinonome from Nichijou creates Biscuit Mk. II, a child-sized robot that can do almost anything. One of his talents is the ability to read and memorize any book in seconds. | |
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Yuuno of Lyrical Nanoha has a spell that allows him do this on several books at once, making him the ideal scholar and head librarian of the Infinity Library. After StrikerS, he teaches this spell to Vivio. | |
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In a Spirou & Fantasio comic, the Count of Champignac temporarily gains this ability after injecting himself with a Super Serum that increases intelligence. | |
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Kyle from Kyle XY, a super-intelligent but inexperienced genetic experiment, reads an entire encyclopedia in an afternoon in order to take a level in normal. | |
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Yun, a minor character from Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, is able to read, memorize, and transcribe an entire book like lightning, although it only ever comes into play once. This, in addition to being a highly skilled warrior. One has to imagine what that wanted ad looked like... | |
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Martha from Dancing Trees has read over 8,000 of the books in Nicky's bookstore thanks to this trope. She can read a page in just a few seconds. | |
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Sonic is seen doing it in Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), going through his large stack of The Flash comic books within only a couple of seconds. | |
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In The Awakening of a Magus, as part of Harry's Magus abilities, he can spend less than a second per page as well as perfectly recall anything he has read, down to the page number. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin once flips through a book rapidly to hurry through a reading assignment. As Hobbes comments, "reading is easy if you don't sweat comprehension." | |
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It's a part of the stock mental package of the Exemplar mutant power set in the Whateley Universe, along with lightning computational skills and sometimes a danger sense or directional sense. The higher your Exemplar (mental) level, the faster you can read, the easier you can memorize anything you see, and the faster you can do basic algebra types of math. It doesn't make you smarter, but it does make you better able to get good grades. Also, plenty of Exemplars do not have the mental package that goes with their level of power (and some who do, don't apply it - Solange, for example, was happy to coast, assuming schoolwork is for those without wealth and good looks, until she finds herself forced to actually think her way out of her bad decisions). | |
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Discworld: Brutha of Small Gods, by virtue of his ability to never forget anything he saw, no matter how fleeting. This ability of his was shown when, in probably around an hour's time, he memorized half of the books and scrolls stored in the Library of Ephebe, the second largest library in Discworld, moments before the Omnians burned it down. Granted, he can't actually understand it, at least at first, because in addition to a photographic memory he is completely illiterate and appears to have some form of dyslexia. | |
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In Tokyo Shinobi Squad, En's Photographic Memory lets him read several pages of dense building reports and memorize everything down to individual floor numbers and passwords in the time it takes for Taiga to finish a sentence. He also reads and perfectly memorizes a petabyte of information, the equivalent of twenty million four-drawer filing cabinets filled to the brim with text, in five minutes. | |
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Return to Halloweentown: Deconstructed — while Dylan Piper was already smart before magic, he later reveals part of the reason he got such good grades all through high school (enough to skip a grade and join his sister in college) was because the one thing he used his magic for was speed reading. This comes in handy to help Marnie find information. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon does it jokingly when he gets the new issue of The Flash. It is implied at times. For instance, when he had to read Amy's favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, so that he could mock it, he appears to have finished it by the time he comes home from work the next day. One time he was bored on a day off and decided to learn Finnish, and by the time Penny drops in he seems to be halfway through the instruction book. It has to slow him down that he stops and pronounces new words. When Penny offers to teach him acting, he has read four books on acting between the invitation and the class, including a beginner's "for dummies" style book and Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares. When reading a paper a colleague won a money prize for he spends five seconds looking at each page, demonstrating understanding as he goes. |
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In Twins (1988), Arnold Schwarzenegger's character being a Genius Bruiser, he reads through the car manual pages in seconds. He does use the real-life technique of tracing sentences with an aid (his finger) in order to stay focused. | |
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Spy X Family: Mission 1 shows Loid is capable of reading pages so fast he's basically flipping one after the other. When he's impersonating an employee at the aquarium, he learned to tell apart the 200 penguins there by skimming a list of them. Even the head keeper sometimes mixed them up after 2 years. |
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Persona 4 Golden has the Hyperspeed Reading book available for purchase in August. It takes four sessions to read, but afterwards you can read up to 2 parts of a book in a single session. | |
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Persona 5 has a downplayed example of this: the fourth and final book you can buy at Jinbochou Book Town is a guide to speed reading. Reading this book allows you to read books that would normally take multiple sittings in only one sitting, saving you time. Of course, by the time you get the option to buy this guide, you've already had to read 3 books that take 3 sittings each. It could still be useful if there are still books to read from the other bookstores or the library that take 2 sittings to finish, however. Persona 5: Royal made the Speed Reading Book available much earlier: starting from July 1, the Shujin Academy Library lets you check it out. |
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In Kujibiki♡Unbalance (the original version), evil genius Renko reads through a whole bunch of cookbooks in seconds in order to direct her team in a cooking competition - but she can only remember what she reads for three minutes. | |
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Phenomenon: One of the main attributes George Malley gains as part of his newly-honed intelligence is to read quickly and still be able to process the information of the words that pass by his eyes. | |
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One episode of American Dad! has Francine, in response to Stan restarting his efforts to dig for Oliver North's gold under their house, claiming that the gold's a myth like unicorns, or speed reading. | |
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Bart Allen (Impulse/Kid Flash) was established as different from other speedsters when it was revealed he can speed read AND retain everything he read (other speedsters can speedread but forget about the facts they researched soon). Subverted in that Kid Flash is still a hyperkinetic attention-deficit teenager and not exactly a genius. | |
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The Owl House has a snake-like demon with a third eye he can use to read an entire book just by flipping through it. Since he works as an editor, he uses it to proofread books quickly. | |
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Quicksilver of Marvel Comics can do this as well. | |
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Used in The Hampdenshire Wonder, a 1911 book about a four-year-old child with Super-Intelligence. When he is "discovered", the protagonist — who is from an uneducated family — can already read at an adult's pace. Mere days after being introduced to a library for the first time, he has improved to the point he can read as fast as a normal person would count the lines on a page. In fact, his tutors suspect he is merely pretending to read, until they test him and find out that he retains and understands every word. | |
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Seever on Life can speed read; she also possesses a Photographic Memory. | |
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On Stargate SG-1, in an episode where several team members are granted super powers by an alien artifact, Daniel Jackson is depicted as reading through large volumes in mere seconds. Inverted, slightly — in the same episode Carter is shown writing a book on wormhole physics so fast she has to keep pausing because the computer's input buffer can't keep up with her. | |
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Abel of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures uses a spell to flip through a book in seconds, then tells Jyrras to look up a specific page. But then the store manager tells him "you scry, you buy". | |
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Sheldon does it jokingly when he gets the new issue of The Flash. | |
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Yuki Nagato from Haruhi Suzumiya, with good reason. | |
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Adam McArthur is shown doing it in The Visitor (1997). | |
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Magic: The Gathering: Planeswalker Teferi tops them all. | |
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The Flash (2014): Barry Allen can use his Super-Speed to do this (as shown in the episode "Fast Lane"), though it comes with a side of realism: Since he didn't take the time to memorize the information, he can only hold onto it for a short time before he has to do it again. At the beginning of season four, Barry returns from the Speed Force and needs to catch up on about six months of pop culture. Cisco hooks him up with a 1000-times-speed TV. |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series In "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Gary Mitchell is struck by a space-phenomenon that turns him into a god-like superhuman; he first displays this by reading at an amazing speed. Spock is monitoring this from the bridge, and notes that Gary's speed has increased exponentially since Captain Kirk was speaking to him just a few moments before. He has complete memory retention as well, recalling a line of text just from its page number. In "Space Seed", Khan's genetically engineered brain lets him read through the Enterprise's computer files at super-speed in order to learn what he missed out on during his 200+ year cryosleep. In "Obsession", Captain Kirk asks McCoy to consult a tape record from an incident eight years ago, but he doesn't have time because several redshirts have been killed or injured and the tape is eight to ten hours long. Spock however is able to assimilate the information a lot faster, and gives him a summary. Data, his daughter Lal, and his brother Lore on Star Trek: The Next Generation are seen doing this. Justified by their being androids — all three only require a single glance to memorize a page. |
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Titans (2018): When Hank is implanted with a bomb, the Titans look up the schematics which Conner memorizes in less than ten seconds. However, when Nightwing tells him to build a defusing device using this knowledge, Connor points out that reading and application are two different things. Nightwing tells him to do it anyway. | |
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Monk: Monk demonstrated this ability in an early eighth season episode while reading a magazine with Natalie, with him rapidly flipping through it and then getting yelled at by Natalie for giving her no time to read the articles. Monk, of course, makes fun of her "slow" reading speed. Of course, speed-reading is justified in his case due to his Hyper-Awareness. Also invoked in the book Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, where there is a scene where Monk speed-reads through several of Ian Ludlow's mystery books, and quickly complains that the books are just using the same formula, again due to the same Hyper-Awareness. He also gets a job as a fact-checker at a magazine, having quickly flipped through some of their older issues while waiting for his job interview, and then points out obscure errors by reciting the lines from memory. "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad" shows he inherited it from his father, who walked away from his career as a textbook writer to become a truck driver but retains this skill when passing time in a holding cell. |
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In DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, the young genie character reads all of the encyclopedia set in the ten seconds he is off-screen, though this may be more to do with him being magic and a Keet than being super-intelligent. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series In "Where No Man Has Gone Before", Gary Mitchell is struck by a space-phenomenon that turns him into a god-like superhuman; he first displays this by reading at an amazing speed. Spock is monitoring this from the bridge, and notes that Gary's speed has increased exponentially since Captain Kirk was speaking to him just a few moments before. He has complete memory retention as well, recalling a line of text just from its page number. In "Space Seed", Khan's genetically engineered brain lets him read through the Enterprise's computer files at super-speed in order to learn what he missed out on during his 200+ year cryosleep. In "Obsession", Captain Kirk asks McCoy to consult a tape record from an incident eight years ago, but he doesn't have time because several redshirts have been killed or injured and the tape is eight to ten hours long. Spock however is able to assimilate the information a lot faster, and gives him a summary. |
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Futurama: Bender, as well as every other robot, does super speed reading routinely. Played for Laughs when after doing it, Bender declares the book "alright..." In a season 6 episode Bender gains Super-Intelligence after being overclocked and proceeds to read the Professor's whole library in seconds. In fact, he starts overheating from his sheer reading speed and he has to jerry-rig a new cooling system for himself out of a water cooler. |
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In Ultimate X-Men, when Beast first meets Professor X in his library, he asks whether the room can still be called a "library" if it doesn't contain any books. Professor X says that, like Beast, he reads fast enough that he can't turn the pages fast enough, and these days prefers to simply read the minds of his favorite authors. | |
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Lucy from Fairy Tail has a special artifact for this. | |
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Grace, the human/alien/another alien/squirrel hybrid from El Goonish Shive is also seen reading textbooks at superhuman speed. She got enhanced short-term memory, probably from free-shapeshifting ancestors. | |
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In Eclipse Phase mental speed nanoware enables a character to read at ten times normal speed. | |
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Doctor Who: "An Unearthly Child", the very first episode, hints that the Doctor's granddaughter Susan has this ability. Barbara lends Susan a book on the French Revolution, which Susan promises to return the next day. When Barbara tells her she can keep the book until she's finished it, Susan's reply is: Done by the Fourth Doctor in "City of Death". He liked it, though it was a bit boring in the middle. In "Rose", the first episode of the revival, the Ninth Doctor displays this skill as a throw-away gag, flipping through The Lovely Bones and then tossing it away, bemoaning its sad ending. Done later in "The Time of Angels" with Eleven. He flips through a book in two seconds flat, declaring that it wasn't bad but slow in the middle. Also, he hated the author's girlfriend. |
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Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds is seen doing this on camera despite being an ordinary, non-superpowered TV Genius. In one episode, the BAU needs to look at hundreds of hours of security footage. When pointed out that time is short, one of the BAU members asks Reid what he did this morning. Reid replies that he re-read War and Peace note the novel is over 1200 pages long Becomes useful in one episode, where a suspect has filled hundreds of notebooks with potentially incriminating information. It would have taken normal readers a week to get through. Five minutes later, Reid discovers an odd phrasing in the third notebook that gives them a clue about the suspect's accomplice. When Morgan asks if he can be normal for five minutes, instead of relishing the idea of looking through huge piles of paperwork, Reid says he finds it meditative. |
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Superman: The Tangent Comics version of Superman first expresses his "otherness" this way. The mainstream Clark Kent version of Superman can perform the same feat◊, unlike the latter above he can genuinely do so as he actually possess super-speed as a power. |
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Peanut of Housepets! is capable of doing this, even though he's not suggested to be a genius. Even Fox, who is a bookworm himself, is impressed. | |
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The Ultimates: Tony Stark reads the 600 pages military debriefing so quickly that he can hardly turn the pages fast enough to keep up his own pace. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: With Gwen captured by Charmcaster, Ben, Rook, and Kevin have to peruse a magic library for a book that can help save her. Ben turns into XLR8 to speed up the search, but XLR8 gets bored after ten seconds and several shelves worth of books and starts reading Sumo Slammers instead. | |
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In an episode of The Adventures of Puss in Boots, needing to go through an entire inventory of a massive treasury to find the one thing that is still missing quickly, Puss employs the Dangerous Forbidden Technique of Speed Reading to do so. This appears to be an actual special technique as the pages magically turn by themselves and begin overheating as he does it. | |
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GURPS makes it a skill so anyone can be really good at Speed-Reading, although a high IQ stat helps. Truly super speed reading is the domain of the Scholars in the Dungeon Fantasy books who can compress 200 hours of study into an hour, even to learn magic or skills that bend the laws of physics. | |
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In one episode, the BAU needs to look at hundreds of hours of security footage. When pointed out that time is short, one of the BAU members asks Reid what he did this morning. Reid replies that he re-read War and Peace note the novel is over 1200 pages long | |
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In Hard Being Pure, Noa goes on a research binge in Phobia’s library, using disjointed eyeballs and some telekinesis to process 20+ books at a time. | |
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Charmed (1998): Phoebe speed-reads the dictionary after using a spell to make herself smarter. Leo sometimes uses his whitelighter powers to speed-read things. |
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Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has Sam gain this skill and go mad in the process. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: In the episode "Dream Machine", Dexter has a dream where his brain grows big and he becomes super smart. One thing that he does, with his big brain, is quickly read every book in a library. | |
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Solid jj: Deconstructed in "Superman Gets a Divorce", and then again in greater depth in "Super Speed is the WORST Super Power". In both videos, Superman explains that, because his brain has to work at super-speed in order to process whatever it is he's reading, it feels to him like he's just reading normally in real-time. Supes speed-reading an entire book in one sitting would look impressively fast to an outside observer, but would be mind-numbingly boring for him. | |
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Johnny Five does this in the Short Circuit films. | |
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Data, his daughter Lal, and his brother Lore on Star Trek: The Next Generation are seen doing this. Justified by their being androids — all three only require a single glance to memorize a page. | |
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