if spaces were used between Chinese words, would reading or skimming be faster?

Factual Questions
1

suppose we pick some system of deciding which multisyllable groups are a true “word” in which case (let’s say the one that is inspired by conventions used in textbooks and dictionaries intended for gweilo) and rewrite Chinese texts with spaces. Would this make reading or skimming texts faster? Could this become a sort of “speed reading” type of thing, where you read in an inconvenient, unusual manner but as a result (with some practice) you get measurably higher comprehension in the same amount of time?

2

Try it yourself with a list of symbols. Something like this:

@#$%^&*

vs:

@ # $ % ^ & *

When reading Chinese, it’s not really a problem knowing where one word ends and another begins.

3

I don’t know about Chinese. But speaking from the vantage point of Japanese, it would help one to be able to change to a fully phonic character set instead of pictographic. But probably not a great difference in terms of speed reading.

4

I’m curious: Does “5 + 5 = 10” seem any easier to you to read than “5+5=10”?

Chinese readers have no problems picking out discrete “words” from context, but I don’t know whether you can improve it from “no problem” to “even better”…

Here’s another analogy:

You could artificially space that out to:

But you could already read the first one just fine. Did the second one make it any easier? Chinese is sort of similar.

One/last/example/is/using/something/other/than/spaces/in/English.As/long/as/you/can/make/out/the/individual/words/I/don’t/think/it’s/a/problem.