Thread: At what speed do you read?
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Old 04-08-2008, 09:17 PM   #28
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I'm amused that a few of the faster readers went back and re-read the numbers to push their comprehension up. Since I read the thread first I did the opposite - skimmed the text for the numbers, then did the test. I scored 100% and 8000 wpm So my "vote" above is a bit meaningless.

In practice I read ~500wpm recreationally and "it depends" with educational stuff. For arts courses at school I was way more than twice that speed but I was reading for the feel of the material rather than to be able to recite large chunks of it. With engineering texts I was slower than recreational speed, but not by much.
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