How fast can you read?

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How fast can you read?

Postby Arlos » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:00 am

Interesting self-test website, to see how rapidly you can read/recognize words.

http://www.wordspersecond.com/

Trying late at night when I'm tired, I can do about 1x21, or 2x15 pretty easily.

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Postby Dylan » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:05 am

Meh, got hard around 15 and couldn't do it after 20
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Postby Tae-Bo » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:14 am

that page is kinda flawed cus traditional speed reading programs teach people to read line by line not word for word

im actually taking a speed reading class right now

can get around 1000 wpm during training programs, 800-900 in actual novel reading

got 24 with this one but it's not really indicative of true speed reading
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Postby Martrae » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:59 am

28 was where it got incomprehensible to me
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Postby Haylo » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:01 am

I read really fast, generally i'm able to finish 3 400 page books in one day. However on that site I was only able to do 1x16 and 2x12. The flashing in and out is hard for me to follow after that point.
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Postby KaiineTN » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:50 am

Martrae wrote:28 was where it got incomprehensible to me


28? Isn't film only 24 fps? Crazy that you can read that
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Postby kaharthemad » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:57 am

i hit about the same. comfortable is about 4 steps down. both me and mar took speed reading courses in school. I took it over me summer vacation one year. Took me a shit ton of lawn jobs and gunsmithing jobs to pay for that one and my first computer class.
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