Sharpen recognition
Tachistoscope
Flash and recall
A word flashes for milliseconds. Type it back. Pick the letter count and level (200ms → 5ms).
Start training — freeWhy train this
Brief exposures force whole-word recognition instead of letter-by-letter decoding. Pushing flash times down trains your brain to grab a word in a single fixation — exactly the skill that lets fluent readers absorb chunks of text without slowing to read each letter.
How to do it
After a short fixation mark, a word flashes and disappears. Type it back. A session is ten words, and the flash gets shorter with each level, from 200 milliseconds at level 1 to 5 milliseconds at level 10.
- What it trains:
- Recognising a whole word from a single brief glimpse.
- Options:
- Word length: 3, 4, 5 or 6 letters. Level: 1 to 10.
- Suggested time:
- One to two minutes (ten words).
Like every Tachi drill, this is structured practice: you get better at the drill task itself, while evidence that such exercises carry over to everyday reading speed is weak. See what to expect, honestly.
Sharpen recognition
Recognise and find words in an instant.