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Originally Posted by moz
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. |
I'm about the same, I scored 600 with 90% on the test, but in practice I'm actually closer to 400-500. Also I like to get through more books, there are so many things that I want to read and I find I get more enjoyment by reading through more stuff quickly then a few books slowly. If there were just a few books worth reading every year then I would read more slowly
