reader.cpp

Terminal: RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation)

// Features

• Flashes words one at a time, centered in your terminal
• Highlights the middle character of each word in red to anchor your gaze
• Adjustable reading speed — change it on the fly while reading
• Pause and resume at any time
• Reads any plain text file
• Lock-free single-producer single-consumer input queue for clean keypress handling

// Getting started

How to compile

make

How to use:

./run <file_name> <time-interval>

<time-interval> is optional. It sets the delay between words in microseconds. Defaults to 250000 (250ms).

./run book.txt 200000

// Keybinds

Key	Action
Ctrl+p	Pause / resume
Ctrl+j	Slow down (increase delay by 10ms)
Ctrl+k	Speed up (decrease delay by 10ms)
Ctrl+q	Quit

// Licence

Use of this code is not permisable for AI/LLM or any statistical prediction model training or any adjacent use.