They say that "Good readers use the super fast part of the brain that correlates associated photos and meaning pictures". When you see a photo of an elephant how long does it take you to figure out that it is an elephant? Do you mistake it for a Zebra? You are using that part of the brain. As we learn to read we use different parts of our brain. Once we become comfortable at reading we use a different part of the brain than when we were first learning to read. If you can recognize an elephant on a photo very fast then you may have similar enjoyment with recognizing words as fast once you tuck those words as photos along with meanings into your memory.
In the old days they say that some movie theater owners would put a 1/24 of a second picture of something good to eat from the concession stand in the movie just before intermission to create an appetite in their customers. The micro second flash of a picture of popcorn and cold drink happens so quickly that you don't even know that you saw it but you subconsciously see and correlate the picture with wanting to eat and drink. It is such a powerful technique that there is apparently a law against doing that anymore. I understand that is the part of the brain that is being used in fast reading.
So maybe you are asking the question, "How can I use that part of my brain so I can read words faster?" The free World literacy computer program, His Hands Reader, attempts to let you "photograph" words into your mind and associate and store away each word along with a meaning picture for that fast recall. HHR attempts to show you each word large, like on a photograph, along with a picture meaning of the word. This repeated process will eventually burn those word/meaning photo combination into your memory for fast, comfortable recall. All brains are made just a little bit different so you will need to try it to see how it works for you.
HHR English primers use 1200 words and some portion of the 3500 different ways these words are spelled. We currently have 250 meaning pictures for the 1700 total meanings in the lexicon. We don't have pictures for every word meaning yet but volunteers are working on it.
How about reading in your language? His Hands Reader is designed to enable a volunteer from your language to easily enter your words and write the same primers in your language. HHR also has support to help deaf to associate meanings by seeing hand signs in their sign language for each word read. See instructions for volunteers at this location. www.GodandDeaf.org/hhr
Think of the His Hands Reader as a training tool attempt to enhance your reading skill -- not to replace all the hard work to learn to read phonetically. You still need that so you will have the ability to learn to read new words. The best training for reading is to read, read, read. Hopefully His Hands Reader will make it more comfortable and faster to read the more common words.
Bob Achgill