The enormously complex and sometimes controversial project to unify the traditional literary Braille code used in English-speaking countries with the technical and mathematical codes authorized by the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) and the Braille Authority of the United Kingdom (BAUK) proposes to change English Grade Two Braille on a scale that is unprecedented since the code was formally adopted in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1932. Proceeding with the unification process requires changing the literary code to remove the symbol ambiguities and redundancies that often occur when technical materials appear in a literary Braille context. The changes are needed despite determined efforts by the working committees associated with the unification project to achieve a code with the fewest possible alterations from the conventions of the long-standing literary English Grade Two Braille. In the United States, the unification process has caught on slowly, partly because adopting the Unified English Braille Code (UEBC) would impose fairly sweeping changes after 70 years of code stability. Many invested parties are reluctant to embrace the new code, fearing that it would be so radically different from the English Braille American Edition (EBAE) as to require unwieldy volumes that would slow down Braille readers or render their skills obsolete. This article describes the details of a pilot experiment undertook to demonstrate the the impact that UEBC changes would have on experienced Braille readers as they read literary Braille. Specifically, the study aimed to determine whether the proposed UEBC changes to standard literary Braille would significantly decrease reading rates among experienced Braille readers. And if so, what was the relationship between oral miscues and regression rates as they affect UEBC reading rates?