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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
I found this on-line test which is interesting. It measures reading speed and comprehension, and gives a kind of scale to measure against. |
That was interesting but I don't know how accurate it is, because it is designed to sell the company's software.
It did remind me of something I once read, that the difference between fast readers and slow readers is that slow readers hear each word in their head when they read and fast readers grasp the sentence/paragraph visually as a gestalt.
I'm usually a visual reader. I never hear or say the words in my head. But, when I force myself to read, or try to speed read, suddenly I do hear the words and slow down significantly. I scored 562 wpm on the reading test, but I definitely wasn't in my reading groove, since I was hearing the words and read a couple of the math-y sentences twice to grasp exactly what was being said.
Still, interesting.
-Marcy