I've recently been told that most students read at a speed of 180-200 words per minute.

This speed sounds outrageously slow to me. I read around 800+ words per minute and, based on prior testing, generally read and retain study material at around 600 words per minute.

Is reading time the reason that post-secondary school seems so slack?

Here's a website to test your average reading speed: http://www.readingsoft.com/

Everyone should pick up EyeQ. If you don't actually take the time to work on it, you won't get the 3-5 thousands words a minute, but it will at least double your speed.

That and having a memory that's nearly 100% retentive will make school a breeze.

224 <--- reading speed

Not good because my eyes hurt and also i had to re-adjust the font size. But still i need some work to do and i don't shy away from my weaknesses that easily.

Thanks for the link

FUCK FUCK FUCK

Damn my Internet was cut off lucky i saved the tabs.

I did a critical error. i didn't include the comprehension scores.

224 Wpm + 100% Comprehension.

296 wpm.

536 wpm.

I think most people dont read so fast is because they dont read a lot. I find that I read a lot faster when I am intrested in a book.

222 wpm. i got 100% on the comprehension test.

i've always read things at about the speed people talk, apparently slightly faster. especially if it's a novel, i want to slow down to take in what's being described or what's going on in the setting. i could read faster, but i would miss shit and what's the point of that if it's for pleasure? though even when studying i don't read very fast in order to absorb things better. i think i read news articles quickly because it's easier to get an idea of what happened, but then sometimes they'll use a name like "Jones said blah blah blah" and i'll be like "wait...who the fuck is 'Jones?' " and have to go back in the article and find where the introduce the person and give a title.

I once found a really helpful website that can help you increase your reading speed. One of the suggestions there was to never verbalize the words in your head like do not pronounce or say the words in your head while you are sight-reading.

Berg's Speed Reading courses are rather well done and can help you to increase your reading speed. It takes about four hours to go through his self-directed course and will provide you with the tools to read with greater speed.

If studying is eating up quite a bit of your time, this may help.

I received a 442 wpm with 100% comprehension, I probably could have done slighlty better but my brother wouldn't shut the fuck up and was distracting me.

But as for the topic, being a senior in high school there are countless people I see who read pathetically slow. Obviously, it probably comes back to the fact that teens are not really reading books anymore which is sad, but most of my friends would laugh if I suggested they read a book for *gasp* enjoyment.

Eye motherfucking Q!!!!

Torrent it if you must, but it helps a lot!!!

12 courses at least to be done over 12 or more days, great for vision too.

Please, anyone with a freshman education should be able to see the unneedingness in being able to read quickly.

333 wpm at 73%

351. I find that if I read slowly and sound the words out loud I am better equipped to memorize the important quotes and descriptions. Consequently, my reading backlog is several feet tall on paper and nearly a gigabyte on the computer.

498 wpm. It does freak me out a little bit hearing that average reading speed is around 200 wpm, but I guess it does make sense. I can't count the number of times I've been reading a magazine or book with a friend and have had a good minute to stare off into the distance before I could turn the page.

I got like 284 w.p.m reading speed, and 70something% comprehension (i can't remember now :p). The article was boring to read, and I don't care much about reading speed stats and metaphors, so I found it hard to concentrate. Generally I find i'm much faster when reading off paper, n something i'm genuinely interested in, rather than something i have to pore over. I find I don't absorb too well sometimes even if i'm enjoying reading, too, actually... n have to go over paragraphs if I "drift off" reading them.

I'm definitely an above average reader, but I don't think my speed has really increased much since I was a kid, concentration and stuff too, iunno. It does bother me sometimes, but not hugely.... still... might well torrent a program to work on my reading. I need to get used to focusing well on quite heavy-going stuff! :)

My friend was a speed reader till his accident, he hit a bookmark.

232 WPM.
82% comprehension.

Smoked weed today too... Im not really cloudy anymore though. Probibly could have done better.

388 wpm
91% comprehension

That doesn't even make sense.

I got 776 wpm, plus 100% comprehension.

283/73

My reading speed was 500-600 in grade 7 and 8. I began trying to learn to speed read, but crapped out somewhere in the middle.


At some point, I just couldn't process the information quickly enough. It was like I had developed ADD, though I don't suppose the endless hours of sleep deprivation and mind-numbing gaming helped.



Not surprisingly, watching this definitely improved my reading speed.
http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_regarder_E_E.htm
Probably to around 350 wpm with increased comprehension, for around 2 - 3 hours.

692 wpm with 82% comprehension. I'm pulling an all-nighter as I type this. I read a lot so yeah...