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[NT] How fast do you read?

goodgrief

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Today I read 35 pages of a novel in 30 minutes. I swear I used to read faster but I've gone off books for a while and I think it wrecked it. How fast do you read?
 
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Phantonym

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:thelook: What are the dimensions of the page? How large is the font? Spacing? What subject was the book on? How interested were you in the subject?

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I'm more interested in the subject matter of the book and I want to enjoy the process, not only the quantity I can devour. I'm a pretty fast reader but it certainly depends on the aspects already mentioned above.
 

Walking Tourist

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I'm a very fast reader. I once startled a friend by reading a 500+ page book in one day...
 

wolfy

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I think I am pretty average in the speed I read. I tried learning to speed read but it felt like scoffing my food.
 

Katsuni

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I used to think I read very fast as well, then I read the averages which's odd... the average reading speed is ~300wpm, or approximately 1 page per minute roughly.

Which's odd since almost noone I know reads that fast, at least noone in person I know of. Yet almost everyone I know of online does.

Yeu fit almost perfectly into the average.

So it's a little strange... maybe people around here just read slow, I'm not sure.
 

Timeless

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I read this thread in 0.85 seconds.

:workout:
 

Alwyn

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It depends. I think I can read fast if I would like to, but more often I want to think about what I read, so I stop every page to think about it for a while.. and then, after a few hours I discover I thought more about the book than I actually read it. That's a very slow way of reading, but I enjoy the process. :)
 

Spamtar

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Very slow. Think I have a slight form of dyslexia or some other disability that effects the speed of my reading. Regardless my ability to absorb what I read is tremendous. Compared to most people I have talked to I get much more absorbed in my reading when I am focused. Its the closest thing to it actually happening...like The Neverending Story (light).
 
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figsfiggyfigs

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I used to be a pretty fast reader. but since I've moved to Sweden, it's gotten harder since my brain is starting to read words the swedish way.. and I mis understand some of them too .. it's a pain in the ass.... but I've been trying to read more to maintain my normal speed before.
 

Drezoryx

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it depends how concentrated and varied the material is and how familiar. if it is unfamiliar but verbose, its easy to scan and skip most non essentials. if it is unfamiliar and has convulted sentences introducing new concepts every other line then slow.

frankly i could finish a 1000 page book in a day or spend the entire day on a single page reading re-reading and ruminating, it just depends on the material.
 

Matthew_Z

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It's slowed down since I'm not an avid reader. 35 pages of the book the OP posted in 30 minutes is probably my speedreading pace.
 
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