MetaChat - How Fast Do You Read?

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

09 April 2012

How Fast Do You Read? Warning: it's an ad for Staples but it seems to work anyway. Brief and amusing at any rate!→[More:]935 words a minute, yo. *bows*

post by: mygothlaundry at: 08:12 | 19 comments

398 words per minute. And I thought *I* read fast!

posted by amro 09 April | 08:54

440 words per minute. I think of myself as kind of a slow reader, though.

posted by BoringPostcards 09 April | 09:35

I am very slow. My score was about 300, but I did poorly on the first set of comprehension questions, and perfectly on the second set, because I know my Alice.

posted by JanetLand 09 April | 10:15

"You read 1,393 words per minute." Bwaaaahahahahahha.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 April | 10:52

497 words per minute when reading alice in wonderland

111 or something when reading something disorienting and strange

I hereby deem this test unreliable

posted by Firas 09 April | 11:49

184 wpm on Alice. I'm a dumb.

posted by mullacc 09 April | 11:55

420 once I turned off the tv. 396 with the tv on.

posted by occhiblu 09 April | 12:12

Two trials, 505 and 710 wpm respectively, with 3/3 correct in both cases.

Nice to be informed of how quickly I could get through The Fountainhead if I ever had to.

posted by Wolfdog 09 April | 12:16

1750, 3/3.

I'm a reeeeeally good guesser.

posted by Madamina 09 April | 12:21

511 for Alice with 12 paragraphs. Much better than the 398 for whatever I read the first time.

posted by bluesapphires 09 April | 12:58

396, or 42% faster than most people. I actually got in trouble by a seventh grade substitute teacher for reading fast. We had to do class work of reading a chapter, and when we were done, we were allowed to do homework for another class. I finished reading, then started on my homework. The substitute yanked my homework out from under me, scolding me for not reading the chapter. I told her I did read it/and a classmate informed her that I read fast. She opened the book to the chapter just read and proceeded to quiz me on it - I passed with flying colors. She quietly apologized, and gave me my homework back.

posted by redvixen 09 April | 13:59

725 words per minute. I did get one question wrong though. I find it nearly impossible to not skim.

posted by peacheater 09 April | 14:14

771 WPM with 3/3 questions correct.

posted by deborah 09 April | 15:46

Mine was pretty much exactly the same as Janetland.

posted by Senyar 09 April | 16:41

526 wpm. 3/3. Pretty average, as usual.

posted by dg 09 April | 17:35

3/3 correct. "You read 606 words per minute. That makes you 142% faster than the national average"

posted by TheophileEscargot 10 April | 08:57

158 words in a minute 12 seconds. But I was 3/3 on the questions. I'm slow, but thorough.

posted by Pips 10 April | 09:37

I seem to have plateaued at 325 words/minute. A little bummed that the "average" college graduate is faster, but they're probably more motivated.

posted by lysdexic 10 April | 11:31

You read 940 words per minute.
That makes you 276% faster than the national average.

Okay I think I had an advantage cause I've read War of The Worlds before (the sample text I got) but My mom never believed me when I said I could read fast and always accused me of "skimming" things and not actually reading. Good to have some actual test to back up Yes, I Can Actually Read Really Quickly, Thank You.

posted by The Whelk 10 April | 22:36

← That's really deep, man. || Happy 47th birthday, Paulina Porizkova →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN