[Fun Fact ] Saccades: We don't see anything and we don't even realize that we're not seeing anything happen.

Although saccades are 7-9 characters, we actually enlist the help of our peripheral sight and typically read ahead ~ 15 characters at a time. This isn't quite as impressive as it sounds. We pick up the semantic cues of only the first 7 or so, and we only sorta recognize the remaining 8-15 characters.

Ever wonder how those who read music seem to do it with ease? Well, it turns out that reading music is actually very similar to reading. It turns out that music reading uses the same saccades and fixations as reading regular text.