how fast can you read?

[draggoon01]

hey, was wondering how fast people generally read. in terms of school textbooks, i time myself every once in a while and i've been reading at 10pages/hour for past few years. always felt frustratingly slow. talked with a chem ta and he mentioned he could read a few thousand words a minutes. this was after he took some speed reading class.

so how fast do you all read?

anyone have tips to read faster?

 

[SWScorch]

I dont have a measurement, but I know I can read very fast if I want; like several pages a minute if its fairly easy reading. When I took AP History, howeve,r it was so sparse and dry that I had to read each page several times over at a very slow pace.

I dont think I have any tips, but I know that when I read fast, I dont really read every word. I glance at the middle of the sentence, and my eyes take in all the important words on either side, and I just get the general idea of that line. So if a line said "the battle was won, but not without many casualties for both sides." I might look at "not without" and get "battle won not without casualties both sides" It only takes one glance or so for me to extract that; I dont go left to right; just look at the middle of the line.

Also, I dont know if this just me or if everyone does this, but I dont actually read the words. I just look at them, and my brain automatically formulates a mental image of what is happening, without actually imprinting the words themselves on my mind. That only works with accounts of events thogh; with dates and other information like that, I read slower and try to implant the important stuff in my mind somehwere.

 

[b0mbrman]

Not very fast at all...

 

[Smacksmackums]

I read extremely slow too.

 

[AreaCode707]

I don't feel like I read fast, I just read, but when I compare to the average, I guess I'm really a speed reader. I go through your typical novel in a few hours (for ex: Michael Chriton's "Timeline" took me a little under 4 hrs, some friends wanted to time me.) So in a fiction book, probably a tad under a hundred pages an hour. Non fiction, textbooks, etc, it really depends on what I'm reading, how interested I am in it.

 

[PsychoAndy]

I read pretty fast, but when it comes to hard stuff, like an AP english analyzation of a passage, i go real slow and have to read over it several times. Ditto with really deep stuff. But normally, I can read regular ccontent pretty quickly.

 

[BlueApple]

Textbooks I find are easier to read as they are just facts, more or less, and it is even better when they BOLD important phrases or terms. With a novel, around a page a minute on most of them.

 

[Dragnov]

I can read fairly fast I believe. To actually comprehend/memorize what I'm reading, I get a t least 1 page a minute.

10 pages an hour?! You got to be kidding me, are you liek reading it over a bunch of times? Have a hard time remembering stuff?

 

[454Casull]

I finished Pillars of Creation in less than 12 hours...

 

[Orsorum]

Back in the day, I used to read 200-page books in an evening.

 

[ScottyB]

1 page every 1-3 minutes depending on the writing.