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How very interesting. I'd never bothered with measuring my reading speed before. I came in at 366 with 73% comprehension - but the text content didn't interest me at all.
I would say that I've got very good speed-reading (speed-skimming?) techniques for technical stuff that I need (ripping the guts out of software manuals) but I deliberately slow down for books I read for enjoyment, and will often re-read a paragraph several times, either to extract the full nuance (fiction) or to gain full understanding. I wonder, what are the comparable figures for other languages? Say French and German, with very different linguistic structures. How about languages outside the Indo-European family?
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