Cognitive bandwidth optimization. Eliminate eye saccades and triple your information absorption speed.
"Your eyes are the bottleneck. Your brain can process information much faster than your eye muscles can move. RSVP removes mechanical physics from the equation."
When you read a page, your eyes don't move smoothly. They jump. These jumps are called "saccades". Between jumps, there is a "fixation" (when you actually see).
The problem: You only spend 20% of the time actually receiving information. The remaining 80% is time wasted moving eyes to the next word or going back (regression).
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) places words at the same spot on the retina (the fovea centralis). This is "injecting" information directly into the optic nerve.
Without needing to move the eye, you can reach speeds of 600, 800 or even 1000 words per minute (WPM), compared to the human average of 250 WPM.
Since childhood we are taught to read aloud. As adults, we keep that "inner voice". This limits our reading speed to our speaking speed (~150 WPM). To read fast, you must decouple vision from speech. RSVP is so fast that your inner voice cannot keep up, forcing you to process *meaning* visually, not auditorily.
It is possible you may feel mental (not ocular) fatigue in the first few sessions. You are using dormant neural circuits. It's like going to the gym for the first time.
RSVP is excellent for a fast first pass (scanning) or for reviewing. For very dense technical material (quantum physics), traditional reading allows for better pausing and reflection.