On: The miracle of reading and writing Chinese charact...

[comicjk]

This doesn't make sense to me. When I'm reading, it feels like comprehension of ideas is the limiting factor, not optical recognition.

A cursory internet search backs up this intuition:

https://persquaremile.com/2011/12/21/which-reads-faster-chin...

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2elbtp/do_avera...

[reacweb → comicjk]

One of my friend was a fast reader. I was astonished by how well he remembered a book he has read so fast. It seems that optical recognition is a distraction that reduce the focus on the ideas. When you read faster, this distraction is reduced.