Unfortunately, there’s not much we can do about saccadic blindness. What we can do is reduce the amount of time we spend in it. A normal reader is trained to make one fixation per word, resulting in about eight to ten fixations per line. That’s a lot of time spent in saccadic blindness. But if we can train ourselves only to make, say, one or two fixations per line, we spend much less time in saccadic blindness. In this way, we can absorb more information—faster.
