That is very interesting. I enjoy programming also. CS was my degree. I have used speed reading apps [available through websites and mobile apps] similar to what you describe and I do fairly well speed wise. My biggest issue these days [my tbi occurred in 2008] comes from trying to understand what I am reading. I could read "the dog jumped over the fence" and it makes no sense at all. I see the words in front of my eyes but not in the front of my mind, like a tip of the tongue feeling thing. I know the sentence should make sense but I don't know how or why or what it means or its correlation to the rest of the story [causing me to go back even further to reread].

I noticed these issues soon after returning home when I would try to read [No time to do that in the desert] and get very frustrated. It was embarrassing using my fingers to follow along like a child would and more frustrating when I had to keep rereading sentences and not knowing why they didn't make sense, I felt like I was high but wasn't [I didn't get med card until 2012 when I started school].

As I mentioned reading a lot helped I think because I can remember what it was like and how it is now. It has also helped me be a better parent in one aspect. I read to my kids out loud every night, we've gone through the Harry Potter series 3x together and I would even read out loud to them from my text books to bore them to sleep and reading out loud and hearing my self say it [though my speech can still, frustratingly, slur at times] I think may also be a big help for me.

I still read to my kids every night and I still sometimes have to pause go back re-read and try to make sense of things but it has definitely gotten better. Before each reading I skim through the past chapters and pretend to be like a teacher, ask them what they remember [which helps me remember] and talk about what has happened which I think has helped some memory issues because I am actively trying to remember more things on a daily basis [I still forget things a lot or something pops into my head and I don't know if I am remembering something real].

Oddly, programming and math come more natural to me than reading a book these days. Like I can easily see how things are connected and interacting and it makes sense to me. I failed math a bunch in HS before being able to scrape by but made webpages as a hobby beginning in 6th grade. I don't know, like the plasticity of my brain reverted back to my youth and because I took math so many times and did programming when younger, it is just easier now than what I remember it being like when I was younger.

But I don't know. Thank you for sharing. The types of programs you made really do help, in my experience/opinion. Awesome of you to do something like that, I bet it helped a lot of people.