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In a recent article appeared on scitechdaily.com - Scientists Discover a Simple Trick To Boost Your Reading Speed by 35% While Maintaining Comprehension, a new research conducted by University of Central Florida - Towards Individuated Reading Experiences: Different Fonts Increase Reading Speed for Different Individuals scientists have not only discovered that changing the type reading font, mainly on your digital reading devices, increased reading speed while preserving comprehension but also experimented that the font size could help to boost our reading speed while maintaining the same reading comprehension rate.




Interesting results are how the different fonts are picked up by the total number of participants.




Moreover, in the study conducted, the fastest readers demonstrate the possible gains when reading in their optimal font.




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Another suggestion is to customize your own experience with the various fonts. A useful tool could be the Virtual Readability Lab. You can find the fonts which best work for you.






Compared to the average reading speed, the participants in this study could add up to 38 words per minute just by changing the fonts. A page that contains an average of 500 words means that in one hour, a person could read from four to five pages more without losing any grasp or comprehension.

For an article or a forum page of around 500 words, the average reading speed per person is about 1.5 minutes. Changing fonts, the increasing speed for the same length is about 17%.

Noto Sans and Times were each chosen by 15% of all participants as the overall winners in the preference tests, with Avenir Next, Helvetica, Calibri, EB Garamond, and Arial also performing favorably according to the preference metrics.

The font size is still a debatable issue. The study above normalized the font size to 16 px (pixels). Previous studies have established that an effective measure ranges from 10 to 14 px.






Considering that the RC part of the test accounts for \(\approx\) 50% of the verbal section, the findings above might be relevant. At least in theory.

An important consideration is how and IF we can change the fonts during the exam, or just prior the exam itself will kick off. According to my search, we do have two possible scenarios.

1) taking the test - now that the pandemic seems over -- in a test center is NOT to change the font size possible unless you ask for accommodation for a disability. ETS provides screen magnification. Here more http://www.ets.org/disabilities

2) taking the test at home. According to this discussion on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/GRE/comments/r ... aking_the/ the keyboard combination ctrl + scroll up works. At least you could change the font size even though you cannot change the type of font

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Alternatively, you can use the windows display scaling BEFORE the GRE exam (at home version), changing and increasing the font in Windows font settings. There is also guidance for Mac users.

How to Use Windows 10 Display Scaling