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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This thread from 2009 might be of interest.
I just took this test again, and my reading speed was 370wpm and 100% comprehension. In 2009 it was 411wpm and again, 100%.
So I'm around 400wpm, what that web site calls an 'auditory' reader, which seems right to me.
So a 350 page novel, being around 150,000 words takes me about 6 hours to read. Hmm... that seems a little slower than my reading record shows. So perhaps when reading my books instead of their test text I'm a bit faster.
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Did the test mentioned in the other thread, at
http://www.readingsoft.com/
Speed: about 300 WPM (I think I'd be faster when reading a "normal" text, that is not littered with percentages, abbreviations and stuff between parentheses.)
Comprehension: 100%
They state:
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Research shows that reading is around 25% slower from a computer screen than from paper. This difference generally increases with increasing reading speed. Thus you may slightly increase your results to find your speed when reading from paper.
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So, on paper, I would read about 375 words per minute, according to that site.
If one page contains 2400 characters (it does, because I set it as such in the Count Pages plugin), and the average word is 6 characters (I remember I read that somewhere, a long time ago), then there are 400 words on each of my pages.
A book of 350 pages would have 140.000 words. This seems to be quite close to pdurrants guesstimate of 150K worlds for such a novel.
Using the above test as a measure, it would take me 6.22 hours to read such a book.
That seems about right. Normally I'm slower, because I read a lot of fantasy; often flipping back to take a look at maps, and such, and I don't normally read "actively", to obtain the highest speed I can. I read much more leisurely.
I think the Kindle is about right with its 9 hours guesstimate (when reading leisurely), and the site is also about right with the outcome of 6.2 hours when reading actively.