If I'm really trying like 500-545.
Normal is like 250-300.
I feel like speed is far less important than comprehension. Anyone can learn to barrel through shit and not really notice what they are reading.
Far better to read slower but really understand I think.
I feel like this test is a bit of a shame, as the goal is to show you the value of an ereader and how many things you can read on a single charge, but ends up making people feel like dumbasses cause who booy a college person or high level executive can read this fast!
Fuck off with that shit.
Just read folks. Even if you read 1 page a day, you are going to be millions of pages ahead of most people who never ever read.
Yeah hear-hear, one thing you shouldn't be is discouraged to read just 'cause of some numbers. What matters is you read because of all the things it allows you to do, feel, and learn, and that's a gift you have and can share people.
That said, I do think the measurement of speed works better in the context of an informational text rather than literature, and was more the idea here, lol. The Staples test was the most intuitive one, though, so I went with that, despite its using novels as reference.
Generally when one says 'reading' they can be referring to either just the act of going over each word in a string of them or actually taking in each word and the subtext and the themes and the details, etc. Hopefully people will treat it more as the latter, because speed is not priority there, understanding is, which is what reading is all about -- this is just a lil' extra thing,
Also I wouldn't be surprised if the stats, even the 8th grader ones, are derived from speed-reading attempts from the given demographics, rather than normal reading, so they probably don't even represent the actual 'normal-reading' average -- though I can't speak for it.
Haha tests like these make me feel so dumb and slow. I got 256wpm and 3/3 and that was honest to god my normal reading speed. I made extra effort to not skim or try harder than normal to bolster up my result. I have a friend who reads really fast and I was always jealous because it made me feel somehow less smart. But then it came to light that his comprehension takes a massive hit. He can read a chapter and instantly forget what it was about when asked about it. If he reads more slowly then he comprehends of course.
Btw, how much does language and nativity affect reading speed? I always try to comprehend what I read as much as possible but I'm Finnish and even though my english is good it is an additional process to the whole thing to translate it in my mind, right?
I'd imagine a lot tbh. xD Depending on your fluency, of course, reading in a non-native language is similar to speaking in it, as you are going over the words in your head and interpreting them through a reference point first. The trickier deals are the novels that go bonkers on prose, lol, as a lot of writers like to take liberties with sentence structure.
That said, because it doesn't require you to generate any new words or sentences yourself you can arguably execute it more fluidly than speaking. Of course the main question is how well you comprehend the text, which depends on how versed you are in the language.
I'd say 256 and with all questions right as a non-native English speaker's a pretty good rate.
