保持每分鐘4244英文單詞/分鐘的世界記錄的6屆速讀冠軍安妮瓊斯，用了47分零1秒，閱讀完厚達759頁的哈利波特完結(jié)篇（第七部）。

The Fastest Readers in History
史上最強的速讀者
The average reader can take in about 250 words per minute.
一般人平均閱讀速讀為大約每分鐘250個詞
Really fast readers--at least those competing in the Mind Sports Olympiad--read much, much faster. The champion of the 2005 competition, Anne Jones of England, read 26,152 words in 17 minutes. She comprehended 56.7 percent of what she read--leading to an adjusted 869.2 words per minute. (The third-place finisher, meanwhile, took in 545.4 words per minute, but had an 83.3 percent comprehension rate.)
真正的速讀者，至少在智力奧賽中的競爭者，能讀更多更快。2005年的冠軍是英格蘭人安妮瓊斯，在17分鐘內(nèi)讀了26152個詞，她在保持以569.2個詞每分鐘進行閱讀的同時理解率達到百分之56.7（同時，又一個說法，當(dāng)理解率到達83.3%時的閱讀速讀為每分鐘545.4個詞）
Going back in time, the British philosopher John Stuart Mill said he could read faster than he could turn pages.
以前，英國哲學(xué)家約翰斯圖爾特米勒說，他可以讀得比翻書還快。
But even Mill, if he wasn't exaggerating, would probably pale in comparison to Kim Peek, who not only can read two pages at the same time, one with each eye, but has also memorized some 9,600 books.
其實米勒可能并不夸張，以金皮克來參照，此人不僅能同時閱讀兩頁書，一個眼睛看一面，而且還能記住9600本書。（吹牛吧！反正不上稅，哈哈）
Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man was based in part on Peek, who was born with some significant brain differences, including an enlarged head, a damaged cerebellum, and a missing corpus callosum, the bundle of nerves that links the brain's left and right hemispheres.
達斯汀霍夫曼在雨人里的角色就是部分基于皮克的原型，他生下來就和很多人的大腦有明顯不同，包括很大的腦袋、受損的小腦、錯亂的用于連接左右半腦間成束的神經(jīng)形成的胼胝體。
Reading isn't Peek's only gift; he's also a genius in 15 disciplines, including history, literature, geography, music, numbers, and sports. Though he didn't learn to walk until he was four, and he still can't dress himself, his mental capacities are actually growing, which is why scientists at NASA are studying his incredible brain. Like a lot of us, they'd like to understand how it works.

閱讀不是皮克唯一的天賦，他還有15個學(xué)科的才華，包括：歷史、文學(xué)、地里、音樂、數(shù)字、運動等，雖然他直到4歲仍不會走路，但他可以自己穿衣，他的心智能力確實得到了成長，這也就是為什么NASA的科學(xué)家要研究他難以置信的大腦。他們想知道它是怎么運作的。
 

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