How fast do you read?
Jul 14th 2013 | 6:41 am
#16
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Re: How fast do you read?
There was no pictures so was bolloxed
I scored the national council estate average
I scored the national council estate average
Jul 14th 2013 | 2:56 pm
#17
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Re: How fast do you read?
So the average is said to be 250 wpm? Roughly four words per second......... that is very slow, so I'd like to know where that statistic came from. 
Do it the other way round - find a passage of 40 words and see if it takes you ten seconds to read it........
........ it won't.
Do it the other way round - find a passage of 40 words and see if it takes you ten seconds to read it........
........ it won't.
Jul 14th 2013 | 4:01 pm
#18
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From: Dubai, UAE
Re: How fast do you read?
Only 382 wpm, but I did work out which book the extract came from before I had finshed reading it.
Jul 14th 2013 | 4:37 pm
#19
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From: High up in Joondalup.
Re: How fast do you read?
So the average is said to be 250 wpm? Roughly four words per second......... that is very slow, so I'd like to know where that statistic came from.
Do it the other way round - find a passage of 40 words and see if it takes you ten seconds to read it........
........ it won't.
Do it the other way round - find a passage of 40 words and see if it takes you ten seconds to read it........
........ it won't.
Jul 14th 2013 | 6:25 pm
#20
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Re: How fast do you read?
You read 521 words per minute.
That makes you 108% faster than the national average.
Think I would be faster if I was reading from paper mind. Not a great fan of reading off a screen.
Also, I find that as you get into a book and start to learn the characters you speed up as you naturally skim more and more.
That makes you 108% faster than the national average.
Think I would be faster if I was reading from paper mind. Not a great fan of reading off a screen.
Also, I find that as you get into a book and start to learn the characters you speed up as you naturally skim more and more.
Jul 14th 2013 | 6:26 pm
#21
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Re: How fast do you read?
You read 521 words per minute.
That makes you 108% faster than the national average.
Think I would be faster if I was reading from paper mind. Not a great fan of reading off a screen.
Also, I find that as you get into a book and start to learn the characters you speed up as you naturally skim more and more.
That makes you 108% faster than the national average.
Think I would be faster if I was reading from paper mind. Not a great fan of reading off a screen.
Also, I find that as you get into a book and start to learn the characters you speed up as you naturally skim more and more.
Books are loaded with waffle so skimming is easy.
Jul 14th 2013 | 6:59 pm
#22
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Re: How fast do you read?
I...err...em....ah.
1,145 words. 358% faster than the national average.
Not that it really means anything.
1,145 words. 358% faster than the national average.
Not that it really means anything.
