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Originally Posted by Teyrnon
Speed readers in particular tend to read words as discrete entities whether that word is 1 character long or 9 the word is read at the same speed.
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I'm not a speed reader, but from my tests above we can see quite clear implications of how I read longer words more slowly than shorter ones. The first column is
'average word length' and the second column is
1300/'words per minute' (I've inverted it and normalized it so the relation is easier to see, but the same relation is obviously there also without this 1300/wpm division):
Code:
4.25 4.60
5.17 5.20
4.41 4.22
4.86 4.85
7.74 7.37
4.63 4.07
So, when the average word length increases the average WPM decreases and vice versa.