Daily cueing of whatever you say will certainly help to attain ultimate fluency. But if you reach a rate plateau and can't seem to move off it, no matter how much you cue, it may be that you are reinforcing some bad habits along the way. To identify some of these common problems see the other Error Factors in this section of the manual. The practice narratives below were carefully selected and edited to allow one to check personal progress. Actually, a speed of100 syllables per minute is quite slow speech.
Considerable variation occurs among individuals who are excellent speakers and cuers.
Considerable variation also occurs within a single individual. We tend to speak relatively slowly when expressing complex, thoughtful ideas and relatively fast when telling a story or a joke, with many gradations in between. The most fruitful and natural exercise of our mind is conversation. I find the practice of it more pleasant than that of any other action of life. That is the reason why I shjould sooner consent to lose my sight than hearing or speech.