Pacer speed reading

An assistant to help you boost your reading speed!
What is Pacer speed reading?
Pacer Speed Reading is a practical, open-source chrome extension that facilitates your reading by acting as a visual guide. It effortlessly leads your eyes across and down lines of text, preventing you from losing your place and enhancing your reading speed. The pacing speed, color, and movement are all customizable, enabling you to personalize your reading pace. This chrome extension doesn't require any special permissions. Simply click 'START', and improve your concentration and alertness with each read.

Extension stats

By: WallE
Users: 3,000+
Rating: 4.44 (16)
Version: 0.0.4 (Last updated: 2019-11-11)
Creation date: 2019-11-10
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 19.84K

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Extension summary

Pacer speed reading is nothing more than a visual guide that guide your eyes across as well as down lines of text.

Using a pacer speed reading has many benefits. By guiding your reading, your eyes are forced into moving in the direction of the pacer. In other words, pacer speed reading forces your eyes to focus when and where you want them to focus. With pacer speed reading, it’s nearly impossible to lose your place on a page and it’s a lot easier to advance to each successive line. All of this helps increase reading speed. Since pacer speed reading involves using other parts of the body, it’s easier to stay alert while reading and that helps improve concentration, too.

Fingers, hands, plastic rulers and cards aren’t very effective when trying to speed read on screen. That's why pacer speed reading is created to help.

Just simply click START button then click on any text you want to read, a highlighting pacer will appear and move with a speed you want. It stops when reaching the end of a paragraph. Click on the next paragraph to continue.

The pacer speed, its color and movement are customizable in the browser action popup. Show popup by clicking on pacer speed reading icon on browser toolbar.

Pacer speed reading doesn't require any special permission. It's open-sourced.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • User-friendly interface
  • Extensive features
  • Very easy to use
  • Efficient and effective for speed reading
  • Helps maintain context while reading
Cons
  • Lacks keyboard shortcuts for quick access
  • Does not work on PDF files in Chrome
Most mentioned
  • Loved the extension
  • Easy to use
  • Impressed with its features
Recent reviews
I Don't know why this just appeared on my computer, The function works and its good but why was it on my computer if I never installed it?
by Sandy May, 2024-03-05

impressed me with its extensive features, user-friendly, and good performance. However, it lacked shortcuts to stop and start the program, which hindered quick access and interrupted workflow. Despite this drawback, the program's overall quality and functionality make it a highly recommended choice for users.
by Rojal Shukri, 2023-06-02

Easy and simple! Loved this!
by Taynara Silva, 2023-02-21
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Pacer speed reading does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Pacer speed reading has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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