Sprint Reader - Speed Reading Extension

It crashed my chrome when I tried to remove, though it wasn't removed . I had to uninstall it.

This one sucks for my main purpose which is reading PDF's. I think the functionality for that isn't ready yet. When you highlight the text you want to read, sometimes you can activate Sprint but sometimes it's not even an option. And then sometimes when it does work the text comes up as gibberish. I'll keep an eye on it to see if they update the PDF reading. For now it's a waste.

Used to be nice. Now it has added some sort of quick text selection function, that appears everytime you press ctrl, alt or cmd... So everytime you tab in chrome or tab between apps. Then you need to press ctrl alt or cmd one million times before it disappears. No way to disable it.

Worked great until a recent update added a "shortcut" to auto-select text. The idea behind it is good, but the deafult way to turn it on is just HORRIBLE (ctrl+alt to select text and z to open the reading window). Since I use other default windows which include these buttons, the reader window just gets crazy. Please fix this as soon as possible, its getting annoying.(Or at least allow us to map keys differently)

I will change the review to 5 if hotkeys are fixed. It is a great app but the hot keys just make it unusable. Why don't you make hotkeys an option that can be turned off and figure out the bugs in the meantime?

I liked this at first, but disabled today because of the completely irrational idea of using the shift key to enable. People use that. Try caps lock, maybe? Anything else.

This is an awesome Spritz app. Using Shift as a shortcut key was pure genius. I never use my shift key since all my emails are all lowercase.

Removed this extension. Using shift as a shortcut is really annoying!

I'll change to 5/5 when you undo the shift shortcut.

Now I can't press control without seeing an sprint reader alert!? Please Stop with the weird shortcuts. I only use the right click option. Otherwise is a good app.

You are out of your mind with this shift bs.

(Will change it back to 5/5 when you remove de Shift shortcut) Loved it. It has helped me go though those lengthy articles and research papers at 350wpm. It sometimes has trouble rendering pdf's or it just doesn't work at all though. Also, it sometimes shows more than one word at a time especially the ones before and after a period. I'd also recommend it to anyone who finds it difficult reading on screen due to the font's size.

I don't know if there are actually updates almost daily (no dates on the update page), but is there a way to remove the update page pop up when I open my browser? It seems to be coming up every day now and I wish there was another way to navigate to that page instead, because I end up having to bother closing the tab every time I use the internet.

This only work with English letters. Showing weird buggy characters when using it on unicode characters. Sample: https://elakiri.com/threads/carac.1960356/

Needs more settings like ability to change the background colour, ability to show punctuation and the ability to show the test in the sentence as your speed reading in the same way as when paused (yes you can look at 2 things at once, especially when you're looking for a specific position).

It was okay before they added that stupid ctrl+alt thing. Now it's always got that dumb text highlighting autocrap screwing up my browsing, and it won't stay off since ctrl+alt is the common key combination to do things like swap virtual desktops or lock your screen. No setting to disable the ctrl+alt toggle either, which is brain damage. If you can get an older version of this extension, get it; avoid the newest version.

I would rate it 4 stars but the Alt+Ctrl hotkey is one I use often for other things and there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it. When I rightclick on the icon in chrome, "options" is greyed out.

Y plz plz plz remove that shift shortcut thing.. it's super annoying!! I will turn off my version because of this issue.. otherwise I rly like this

Puts selected text in a video scroll of words.

It's a cool extension in concept, but I had some difficulties with it. Besides the other glitchy things people have criticized, It also seemed like words were all being flashed at the same speed, no matter how long/complicated the particular word was. When reading articles, I'd find myself pausing every paragraph or so to reread an extra long/complicated word, or an unfamiliar last name, so it kind of made the experience pretty clunky.

It mostly does the job but there are some oversights. When sentences end with a period inside quotation marks, it doesn't recognize this as the end of a sentence and it drives straight through them. This is a problem because I mostly use this to read news stories with a lot of direct quotation.

Not bad, could do better

The reading is great. But it does not break sentances, puntuation(only some time) and paragraph. The last letter of the paragraph is imediatly follow by the first letter of the next one without period. it is confussing. I have to look for something that reconises paragraph and sentances!

Needs more flexibility with pause options. For example, an extra pause at line break/new line would be good. Or a pause after the closing quotation mark. Or any punctuation mark such as the question mark for that matter. The way the app is right now it's little to no use in reading literature what with all the massively used dialogues and direct speeches in there. Otherwise good app. Especially love word frequency algo. Oh, I just peeked into options once more. There is the pause after paragraph option. But strangely enough it doesn't work when the paragraph ends with combination like this: "Something?" Something.

Didn't highlight optimal word in more than two words, text orientation can be improved.

No options (right-click on extension button, choose "options"). Overrides existing keyboard shortcuts. Instructions have conflicting information about what the shortcut actually is (ctrl+alt+z vs ctrl+shift+z).

"Shift" as shortcut is a pretty terrible idea. I can't write a capital letter without an extension popping in. Please add and option to change or disable it.

In 1.3.8, shortcut key for auto-select is changed from SHIFT to CTRL+ALT, but the problem hasn't been solved yet. In my environment (Mac OSX+Chrome 34.0), when I press only CTRL (not CTRL+ALT), popup is shown. This behavior is reproducible. I want to disable auto-select popup completely.

It was a pain to read any document with numbers as it would separate the number as two items. (ie. "this costed $24.1 billion" would show as "this - costed - $24 - .1 - billion")