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Old 09-25-2022, 02:14 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by JeanPierre View Post
For every specific person, if you want to determine what is their reading speed, you will test them with text that is not hyphenated, with a ragged right margin, and at least 13 words per line.

That is because for every specific person, that is how they will achieve their fastest reading speed.

The end.
I do read ragged right, and I still call BS. "Every specific person" is a nonsense. Some people do read faster justified, while LOTS of people read scripts written from right-to-left, and some read scripts written vertically rather than horizontally. To insists that there is one absolute optimum that works without exception for every single literate person is a mountain of merde.
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