How fast can you read?

[schmiddi]

I got 550-600 on the test. Not so bad I think. Though I think I'm somewhat faster when reading german texts.

 

[philippe]

600-650
really quick reader when i want too

 

[stormbind]

Wow, these numbers are big! I am a fairly slow reader, but I don't know the quantitative value so cannot answer the poll.

What if you read it and didn't absorb the information fully?

 

[newfangle]

@Stormbind,

I NEVER fully absorb info I read, so I may as well read as fast as possible to get that crap over with.

 

[yoshi74]

Approximately 200 pages in ~6-8 hours. I never bothered to figure out how many words per minute this are. I prefer reading a book, not counting the words .

 

[Verbose]

400-450 according to the test.
I'm pretty sure I'm reading slower and slower as I grow older. But then again I usually read stuff that I have to think about, make notes etc. Better retention too. No cramming. I don't speed read, but I "read" books by leafing through the index to see if there is anything in it that looks interesting.
(Unless its "The da Vinci Code" which I pushed through in a day, or some such. Entertainment. Not much effort required.)

 

[Cuivienen]

I read extremely fast -- 1000-pages-in-three-hours fast. Somewhere around 850 wpm, I think.

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

 

[Moss]

I have absolutely no idea. I'm pretty average. I can't speed read, but I'm not slow either.

 

[Perfection]

I got 550-600 though it's highly dependant on what I am reading.

The stuff I read usually takes longer. I've got books that I probobly read at 150-200 wpm.

 

[Hundegesicht]

900 WPM if need be (lots of practice speed reading posts here) though I generally read slowly on purpose when reading books, just so I can think more while I'm doing so.

 

[The Person]

300-400 wpm. Maybe faster if I read norwegian.

 

[Elsaak]

I'm between 150 and 200 wpm
It's not so bad for a no-mother language. But I must improve...


In French, I'm about 379 wpm. This is better. But the most import is the level of comprehension (about 80%).

 

[Perfection]

I got 550-600

Though it really depends on the material. I blaze the fiction and news articles, but some of the books I read are probobly in the 150-200 range, perhaps even lower.

 

[King Alexander]

I don't bother to actually count the wpm that I can read and it doesn't bother me at all to find out.

I read as fast as needed to understand the ideas/concepts from what I'm reading. There are books that could take several minutes per page to understand them. It's not just "read the words", because it's pointless if you don't understand what you're reading.

 

[PantheraTigris2]

Depends on the intellectual sophistication and complexity of the words, and subject matter. If it's something like say, page 1 of this thread, I can read the entire thing in just a few short seconds.

Wait a minute... does that require a 'no offense intended' disclaimer?

j/k

 

[Longasc]

How does it come that you guys know exactly how many words you read per minute?

Reminds me of the clicks per minute statistic of WARCRAFT III.

I know speed reading is a subject in the US, but not in Germany. But how does it come that so many can give really exact measurements like 379???

 

[Mise]

I know speed reading is a subject in the US, but not in Germany. But how does it come that so many can give really exact measurements like 379???

Well, to be fair, he said ABOUT 379

 

[Mise]

I read extremely fast -- 1000-pages-in-three-hours fast. Somewhere around 850 wpm, I think.

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

900 WPM if need be (lots of practice speed reading posts here) though I generally read slowly on purpose when reading books, just so I can think more while I'm doing so.

I'm sorry but that's rubbish; Nine hundred words per minute is Fifteen words per second.

So you read the above sentence in a second? I don't think that's really possible

And if that was possible, the second sentence and this sentence so totally not possible

 

[Longasc]

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.

 

[stormbind]

Sorry people: I get the feeling that this thread is about promoting quantity, not quality.

Or, perhaps I am just bitter