How fast do you read?

[mike80]

You read 454 words per minute.
That makes you 82% faster than the national average.

The questions were easy - it is my favourite book!

[mybrainhurts]

I think this is an appropriate time to remind everyone to remember...

Speed kills...

[CBR JGWRR]

mybrainhurts said:

I think this is an appropriate time to remind everyone to remember...

Speed kills...

Am I dead then?

[V8mate]

CBR JGWRR said:

mybrainhurts said:

I think this is an appropriate time to remind everyone to remember...

Speed kills...

Am I dead then?

We can only hope.

[CBR JGWRR]

V8mate said:

We can only hope.

[V8mate]

Oh go on, have an 'I was only kidding' winky thingie then, if you must.

[Charlie Michael]

589 Words per minute.

[birdcage]

621

[sc0tt]

644p/m

[omgus]

You read 502 words per minute.
That makes you 101% faster than the national average.

website said:

If you maintained this reading speed, you could read

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling in 2 hours and 33 minutes

Which is bks, mainly because i have recently read in that in well under two hours. It was the only book available to read that wasn't a romance.

As said by another poster, if i was just skimming in a "work report" style looking for grammar/speeling errors it would be much faster, if it was the first time i has read a new novel it would be about 1/2 that pace.

I have consistently found that i tend to average about 80pages of a paperback/hour if it is a new book and 100/hour on a book i have read before.

[davepoth]

I managed to read LoTR in about 12 hours, but then I wasn't expecting a test on it...

[Vocal Minority]

Only 234. My defence is that I tend to read in my head as if I were reading it out to someone.

I could have lied, as I have read war of the worlds and knew the answers anyway...hey ho. lesson learned

• having done it again I am up to 400 something.

Edited by Vocal Minority on Monday 21st May 21:04

[Gorilla Boy]

554

Not bad for my generation who see reading as a waste of time. (im nearly 22)

[anonymous-user]

678 apparently, i am 171% faster than the national average

[V8mate]

slopes said:

678 apparently, i am 171% faster than the national average

Which makes a mockery of the test. As we all know you're slower than a close Amish relative.

[Belvedere]

779 for me - 212% above average.

[anonymous-user]

V8mate said:

slopes said:

678 apparently, i am 171% faster than the national average

Which makes a mockery of the test. As we all know you're slower than a close Amish relative.

Oh god, are you still about? I heard you'd fked off to mongolia to live? Be a good lad, pack tonight yeah, cheers

[43034]

"You read 357 words per minute.
That makes you 43% faster than the national average."

However, I am fking smashed.

[McHaggis]

1165, no cheating.

[Zwolf]

You read 847 words per minute. That makes you 239% faster than the national average.

One pass, no skimming - as directed.