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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
Staples has an interesting test to check your reading speed.
I seem to be only slightly above 300wpm which is apparently the national average which is pretty disappointing.
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Here's the Staples reading speed page in case others are also interested...
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marke.../speed-reader/
I got 635 wpm, going back for words or sentences that were hard to get. Believe I sometimes read slower and sometimes faster. And the whole thing leaves you thinking more about their testing than the text itself. But it has a lot to do with your familiarity with the topic, amount of "chewing on the material" you want/need to do and how much you choose to linger in general. It takes work to go fast.
(For those trying it, be aware that it reuses the same text over and over, so don't start until you are really ready to do the test.)
What's really funny is the scale with...
150 wpm - 3rd grade students
250 wpm - 8th grade students
300 wpm - average adults
350 wpm - 11th grade students
450 wpm - avg college students
575 wpm - high level executives
680 wpm - college professors
800 wpm - high scoring college students
I'd like to see how high scoring a college student would be if they read their advanced Physics or Statistics textbooks at 800 wpm! ;-)