I always thought this was normal, but apparently the average is 200wpm? What the fuck? How can I read so fucking slow? I thought my reading speed was in the average but it's actually really fucking below, this is why it takes me so much time to read a 500-page novel (around 50 hours). Am I stupid? I really can't see myself reading faster than that, it would only spoil my enjoynment but now I'm feeling bad for reading so slowly.What's your reading speed?
Reading speed is a grift
>>24703297hold on, a word per second?
>>24703297Are you reading Ulysses or someshit? My reading speed dropped to around 10 pages an hour when I was going through it. Normally it's somewhere between 30-40 pages an hour depending on font size and text difficulty.
>>24703297the only problem is that you're not reading slow enough
>>24703297this thread becomes a whole lot funnier when you read out the OP at one word per second
>>24703373Dickens, but most of the book I read while on the bus or when I was sleepy so maybe that influenced my reading speed, it's still pretty slow though
>>24703403NTAAnon, don't feel bad about it. Dickens is not a bunch of internet posts bundled together using limited vocab and simple sentence structure. It's prose, so it's only natural it requires more effort to comprehend and mull it over. It doesn't mean if I can read 500 wpm when I don't even get the gist of a text I'm reading.
>>24703456>It doesn't meanIt doesn't mean anything
>>24703297Do you think the man that cums quickly is superior? Do you think the man that rushes through life has the best experience?
>>24703297Listen to an audiobook and read along with it. See if that increases your speed. Being a "good reader" is probably like listening to an audiobook on 1.5x speed and being able to hold that attention for at least 30 minutes without losing focus and having your mind wander.
>>24703297Reading speed doesn't matter if you're metabolising the book and taking the time to engageCould have a 1000wpm reading speed but if you don't recall or take any points from it what was the point in the first placeHope you managed to get to the end of this before dinner anon
>>24703827Speed, focus, and retention. All three are important.
>>24703297Lying
>>24703297Reading speed depends on the book. Anyone can speed through YA-slop in a day or two and have their WPM retarded when they read Hegal.
>>24703297>I'm feeling bad for reading so slowly.Bitch, don't be. I'm a slow reader, too and it doesn't matter. You're supposed to enjoy/take something out of the book you're reading. It's not a race who reads first. Seriously, who fucking cares
>>24703297Maybe you're subvocalising. You read much faster if you don't say the words in your head.
>>24706466If OP is reading a word a second, then subvocalizing might speed him up. Try reading at the rate you speak.
i took some online test and this is what i got. 220.
>>24703297>Reading:193 WPM (2x too slow)>Talking 230 WPM (2x too fast (according to the AI that rated my proposal pitch))
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