Most (80%) of your reading time is used to physically move your eyeballs. This Chrome extension takes your block of selected text and presents it to you one word at a time. This eliminates eye movement, drastically speeding up your reading time.

0. [Install the Extension.] (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-reader/lpjokkihnnennblbchdhmpkmapbdkinb)
1. Select a block of text you want to read quickly.
2. Click the eye icon, which appears to the right of the omnibox.
3. Adjust speed if necessary (your speed pref is automatically saved), and hit Start.

• Spritz is working on a mobile app, and their blog explains a lot of the science
• [I found the JSFiddle mentioned below, along with a lot of other interesting thoughts on Hacker News] (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7295094)

I saw this this JSFiddle with most of the work done. From there I enhanced the UI a bit, and wrapped it in a Chrome extension.

• 3/2/2014 - Speed preferences persisted. Updated UI to use floating modal. Removed slider.
• 2/28/2014 - First Release.