If we could turn the pages fast enough, our brain could process it faster than our eyes can see it. If we could turn those pages fast enough, our eyes have the capacity to read a standard book in six to twenty-five seconds depending on the length of the book. We could take in the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in one hour. So reading 700 - 1,000 words a minute is easily within our reach. We are going to start being pure sight readers.
Obstacles get in our way, however.
Well, these are things that impede us from reading faster. Regressions are going back over words. You can call it back-skipping if you want. You go back over words you previously read. People do it for two reasons.