This program can be used to test the readability of text. The same string
is presented each time. The total elapsed time for reading the text is 10
seconds for each of the variations.
Try to observe the
effect of text size, placement on the page, and word grouping on reading
comprehension. (Does it help the
reader to move the words across the page, as the eye usually scans printed
pages?)
The variations in word grouping are: one at a time,
consecutive pairs, or "meaningful pairs".
I am interested in whether the flow of the entire passage is
helped by selecting word pairs based on significance of the pair. For
example, here is the fragment "like being banished into forests far from
everyone," presented on the left in consecutive pairs, and on the
right in meaningful one's or pairs:
like being
like
banished into
being banished
forests far
into forests
from everyone
far
from everyone
The quote is from a letter to Oskar Pollak, by Franz Kafka
