How fast can you read?

[Longasc]

The faster, the better?

I think nobody would read a really interesting book by using methods of speed-reading.

But it can be useful if you are reading something you are not interested in at all.

 

[stormbind]

Well, it depends if you read all words. If you take a glance at a document you might get the gist of it by reading only some parts.

There are also methods to do this, and I think this is what the subject speed reading is about, right? To be able to get a pretty good impression of tons of documents by only reading a few parts of it.

What is described above, is what I have called speed reading.

In that, the idea is to just hurry over the sentences to get a vague idea of which words appear in the text, and perhaps what the text is about, but it is useless for acquiring true understanding. Perhaps it is useful when the subject matter is known, and you seek only updates?

Incidentally, I was reading online interpretations of Shakerpeare's plays. They were wrong. Given that Elizabethan English is quite difficult to read, at least for me, this is perhaps what happens when you read some words and take their meaning out of context?

 

[citizen001]

It's better if you understand what you read rather than trying to read it as fast as you can, otherwise what's the point of reading?

 

[Elsaak]

after doing that test in English, I was interested in doing it in French ;
so I look at another site, with another method to do :
you read a whole text with a known number of words
the time spend on it gives you an average score
I did it on 3 different texts and it gives me this "about 379"

do you understand ?

 

[stormbind]

The quality of those texts, and familiarity with the subject, will influence the score.

If a subject is new to you, then you will slow down to contemplate it's meaning.

 

[Mise]

after doing that test in English, I was interested in doing it in French ;
so I look at another site, with another method to do :
you read a whole text with a known number of words
the time spend on it gives you an average score
I did it on 3 different texts and it gives me this "about 379"

do you understand ?

Yeah I thought that was what you meant, it's just that saying "about 379" sounds odd, like saying, "the time? oooooh it's approximately 1:59 and 34 seconds."

 

[Elsaak]

Yeah I thought that was what you meant, it's just that saying "about 379" sounds odd, like saying, "the time? oooooh it's approximately 1:59 and 34 seconds."

I 'm sure of the result number = 379
but I'm reserved about the way of finding it... !

 

[ManOfMiracles]

I got 450-500 online. I think I read faster from a book than from the screen.

 

[Godwynn]

I have no idea about my WPM, but it is somewhere between slug and turtle.

 

[Joeb WK]

How fast i read depends on how difficult the piece im reading is.

 

[stormbind]

EDIT -- I finished the speech in under a minute. 900+ wpm.

You spoke at 900 wpm? Why?

Are you training to be a door to door salesman?

Seriously, I think 900 wpm would be incredibly hard to follow. I would aim for 200 wpm if I want people to comprehend what I'm saying.

 

[stormbind]

How fast i read depends on how difficult the piece im reading is.

Same here, like Shakespeare at 100 words per day