Even when you know how to ignore irrelevant details, you can make other technical improvements to your reading style that can increase your reading speed.
As what we have mentioned earlier, most people tend to read the way young children do, letter-by-letter or word-by-word. But the truth is, reading is about fixing the eyes on one block of words, then moving them again to the next block, and so on. Thus, you are reading blocks of words at a time, and not individual words one-by-one.
Skilled readers are able to read the most number of words in each block. They will dwell on each block for an instant, and will immediately move on. This technique reduces the amount of work that the readers eyes have to do. It also increases the volume of information that can be read in a certain period.
