Anthony002, you basically posed your question the same way I would have. And I fully agree with the statement that you should do what works for you. The only time you should really worry about it is if you know that the benefits of getting faster outweigh the frustrations of taking 2 steps back to hopefully come forward 3 steps in the end.
Personally I think that if you can read at a comfortable speaking pace, that should be fast enough for most needs. Your dominant hand can do that with practice, so I don't know why people who don't use their non-dominant hand for reading are so disadvantaged. The argument I often see is that if you read with both hands, one hand is always reading while the other is moving down to the next line, so there is no pause between lines. They told me that in school anyway. But for me, moving down to the next line didn't take long at all, because I used my left hand as a marker, so when my right hand reached the end of the line, my left hand would move down and my right hand would swing over to meet it. I don't think those short pauses were too significant. If there was anything I had to work on, I think it was just reading words faster, which left-handed reading wouldn't have helped much with. So my left hand really never got practice, and I struggle to read even short words with it. Granted, there may be situations where braille speedreading is preferred. Maybe for reading long books or the like, but for me, braille reading was always a little tiring, not to mention cumbersome with hard copies. I'm a very auditory person so there's a little voice in my head reading aloud when I read braille. It just made sense for me to use speech, and over time I have been able to speed my speech up quite a lot.
Now what's really strange is that while I can only read braille with my right hand, I can write braille with either hand on its own. I only do it with note takers, I don't at all want to try it on a Perkins. Those keys are wider and much heavier. When I did try it once, my fingers almost got caught between the keys.
The first time I remember brailling with one hand, I was 10 I think. I was being lazy and sort of laying on my side and wanted to open a document on my Braille Note and read it with speech, and only one hand was within reach of the keys, and I discovered that I could do the keystrokes and get it going without getting up. Then I got curious and tried actually brailling that way. Anything involving both dots 3 and 6 was a bit of a stretch, and dots in the middle made it harder. I remember y being especially difficult; my hand wasn't able to contort enough to reach all the keys at once. I had to split it out into handfuls, hitting some keys on one side such as 1 3 4, then holding 4 so I could pivot over to the other side and hit 5 and 6. And since the letter y is common, it slowed me down. I used to practice sometimes, because that's the odd sort of person I am, and after experimenting with different angles and allowing my hands to grow a little, I could do those letters more easily without splitting them out. The same couldn't be said for full cells though! Those I either always split out or just didn't use the contraction.
I of course rarely needed to braille with one hand, but it did become useful when I wanted to make electronic copies of hard copy braille papers. I would often sit at a big table with the paper on my right and Braille Note on the left pointed at a 45-degree angle. I would read with my right hand and type with the left. I think it was faster than going back and forth with both hands, and I know it required less concentration since I didn't have to memorize a phrase at a time, I could just allow my hands to pace with each other without too much thinking.
I dunno, it seems kinda funny how I can braille and type with either hand on its own but reading with the left is almost impossible. I guess the neural pathways for feeling fine tactile details are different than those for manipulating larger things. Maybe playing piano from an early age made it easy for my brain to grasp typing on a keyboard more intuitively, but didn't help me learn to read braille so much? Perhaps.. Though I bet braille music would've made my left hand proficient at reading. I never used braille music though.
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