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Fuck. No wonder i only read 3-4 books a year

http://www.readingsoft.com/

>> No.16057833
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Wow look I'm a genius

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>>16057818
I just woke up so take that into account

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>>16057818
it's really light reading, i don't see how anyone can get less than 500wpm
on denser text it's much slower going

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Oh shit I broke it

>> No.16057911

>>16057896 do you subvocalise?

>> No.16057926

>>16057911
not at all

>> No.16057964

180 wpm at 82% comprehension

>> No.16058216

>>16057818
235@100% are you a native speaker btw?

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>>16057818
Who here
>average reader

>> No.16058341

228 wpm with 91 comprehension. And I'm an ESL. And I sub vocalized too.

>> No.16058345

>>16058341
reading faster than me is just esl cope

>> No.16058382

>>16058281
213wpm, 73% comprehension

>> No.16058409

>>16057896
>i don't see how anyone can get less than 500wpm
Did you not read the text?
But yes, on a denser text it's much slower going

>> No.16058417

>>16057818

340 wpm and 91% comprehension

>> No.16058467

I've got 600 WPM at 80 percent comprehension. There is no fucking way anybody exists who can truly read 1000 WPM...

>> No.16058514

298, 91% comprehension learned English as a third language.

>> No.16058587

387 82% (I misclicked one of them, I swear!)
When I actually read a book I rarely speed-read since I find it less enjoyable and can't visualize the scene. My average pace is around 250-300.

>> No.16058596

>>16058587
they tell you to read at your default speed you retard why do you speed read

>> No.16058603

>>16058467
Wut? I can get to 1600wpm before comprehension declines

>> No.16058613

>>16057818
244 at 91%

>> No.16058614

>>16058596
>SPEED reading test
>implying I read the directions

>> No.16058656

>>16057818
430 at 82 percent

>> No.16058668

>>16058614
>Don't speed but read normally to find your present reading level.

>> No.16058682

>>16058668
>>implying I read the directions
Hey, buddy. Buddy. You're not paying any attention, buddy. We're like two peas in a pod, you and I.

>> No.16058697

>>16058682
HAHAHHA im retarded

>> No.16058699

>>16057818
I read fiction slowly, maybe 100-150 WPM, and non-fiction at about 200 WPM. Philosophical works I read twice, the first at ~250-300 WPM and the second at ~150 WPM + the time it takes to take notes. I still finish at least 2-3 books a week, you're just fucking lazy.

>> No.16058702

Subvocalizing is REQUIRED to truly understand a text.

>> No.16058724

>>16058702
No it isn't.
t. 400 wpm w/ 90% comprehension

>> No.16058745

>>16058724

Temporary comprehension, utterly fleeting.

>> No.16058851
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16058851

Heck, back in school it was 900. How the fuck it dropped so hard?!

>> No.16058858

got 252 wpm at 91% comprehension. I need to go faster!!

>> No.16058901

>>16058702
This is retard cope. Just like the NPC meme. Imagine having to talk to yourself like a fucking lunatic every time you read something. Couldn’t be me.

>> No.16058913

>>16058702
Why do autists project their every necesity on others?

>> No.16058974

>>16057818
>263wpm
>91% reading comprehension
ESL and tipsy btw. Not too bad, I reckon.

>> No.16059019

>>16058702
i used to not only subvocalize but also move my mouth when i thought in words
now i haven't spoken in years and have 1k+ wpm reading speed
we will all make it

>> No.16059105

>everyone with 91%
we all missed the same retarded, confusing question right?

>> No.16059189
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223 wpm at 82% reading comprehension. how do i get faster and better? no im not paying this shitty 1998 website

>> No.16059222

>283WPM
>83% comprehension
Not a native speaker

>> No.16059294
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299 wpm
55% comprehension

>> No.16059610

375wpm
81% comprehension.
Doomed to be marginally better than average.

>> No.16059794

>>16057818
274 wpm
82%
I have a headache

>> No.16059798

>>16057818
lmao that page looks like from 1998
181 at 92% but i could do better for sure and not my native language

>> No.16059843

Well this was an eye-opening experience. I wonder what their sample size for the average reader is. Must be all white people, because if I'm "average," then niggers and beaners probably read half as quicky and comprehend less than half as much as the "average."

>> No.16059848

>>16057818
256 wpm
100% comprehension
I'm satisfied. Tried to be as fair as possible and let myself restart paragraphs when I missed something, as I would normally do when reading.

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>>16057818
Not bad, Bateman, but that's nothing.

>> No.16059926

Tbh, I love reading so much I’d be scared to take a class and alter the fundamental way I do it, maybe irreversibly. Not so much that I’d speed read and sacrifice comprehension, but just something about the way the words on the page translate into my mind into imagery and emotion.

>> No.16059932

>262 wpm
>82% comprehension

Some of the questions were phrased awkwardly.

>> No.16060010

277 and 82% comp but I've also taken an edible and had a half dozen drinks

>> No.16060014

871 wpm and 100% comprehension.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

>> No.16060031

315 wpm
100 % comprehension
>>16059189
>how do i get faster and better?
I doubt your 82% comprehension is real when you're asking this

>> No.16060034

>>16060014
Did you read a lot as a kid or have parents who read a lot? Maybe most of your family were educated at a higher level? Reading skills are genetic anon.

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>>16060014

>> No.16060052

>>16060034
Neither of my parents even went to college and I didn't seriously take up literature until I was 21.

I think this board genuinely just doesn't read.

>> No.16060073

>>16060052
I've read 30 or so books this year but I think I'm a slow reader. It's more that I don't take things in if I skim or read quickly. My dad is also a slow reader but he's a brainlet genre fag.

>> No.16060081

239 at 82% and I’ve read 34 books this years :-)

>> No.16060138

How do you comprehend information without subvocalizing?

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218 WPM reading speed and 82% comprehension.

I haven't read a book in over a decade and only come here to shitpost.

>> No.16060246

ESL with 398wpm and 82% comprehension. Good enough.

>> No.16060336

>400
>80%

Great now I'm a midwit when it comes to reading speed too.

>> No.16060342

>>16060235
kys

>> No.16060656

>>16058216
82%, no not a native speaker

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16060705

i did the test again and only got to 198 this time. what the fuck is wrong with me?
i cant even become average on a second try.

>> No.16060738

I'm a terrible fucking reader, especially when you consider how reading is my main hobby. I typically get 180 - 240 words per minute on these tests with 60 - 80% comprehension.

>> No.16060741

>>16057818
If you aren't reading fiction like a brainlet its about quality not quantity. Any one can get through those shitty thick mindless novels in a week if they just shut the computer off and read.

>> No.16060752

>>16060738
i know man, it's fucking grim.

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>>16057818
I haven't sat down to read anything in about 2 years or so. 82% at comprehension. Dunno if that's what people mean by "subvocalize", but I "hear" the text in my head. ESL. Is there any way to improve?

>> No.16060759

>>16060754
>subvocalize
mouthing the words silently as you read or speaking the words so quietly that only you can hear them as you read

>> No.16060768

>>16060738
they're standarized shit for selling crash courses on "speed reading", don't take it too seriously. Maybe you have great personal interpretations of the works you read, great insight on aesthetics and such, idk, it doesn't matter if it takes you a month to finish them.

At least that is how I'm trying to cope

>> No.16060847

>>16060738
bruh, you're just average. terrible would be 100 wpm or 40% comprehension

>> No.16060885

ESL 211wpm with 91% comprehension. I need to stop subvocalizing.

>> No.16060901

>>16060759
Oh no, I don't do that. I guess I just do the "reading with the mind" thing. Not to the point where you give "voices" to whatever you read, but kinda like an echo at the back of your head.

>> No.16060904

238, 82%. Non native. 4 or 5 years without reading a book.
Text was interesting; do these software tools work? Is there any for free?

>> No.16060912

>>16060885
It's a hard habit to break and your comprehension will tank while you get the hang of it

>> No.16060936

>>16060904
if you haven't read a book in 4-5 years why are you on a literature board?

>> No.16060947

313 words, 82% comprehension. Meh.

>> No.16060972

339 wpm 100%

interestingly though im a very slow reader (it takes me two weeks to read an average novel)

>> No.16060997

>>16060912
I can stop myself from subvocalizing for one page at a time but it's really taxing, and I don't feel invested in the book while doing that.

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>>16057818
>126 wpm
>91% comprehension
I reread sentences and make diagrams of what I'm reading in my head so that I can better remember/visualize it.

>> No.16061001

>>16060936
Not him, but for me this is my most fun board to larp on.

>> No.16061028

>>16061001
larp as what?

>> No.16061096

>>16061028
Christcucks
atheistcucks
petersonfags
being a libertarian
marxists
idolizing elon musk
writing love notes to butterfuck
writing insults to butterfuck
being a misogynist
being a racist
being an antisemite
shitting on authors/figures I know nothing about, like Chomsky
making fun of stoicism (also know nothing about)
making fun of stemfags
pretending to be a stemfag
being a centrist
And a whole bunch of other things. I enjoy reading threads about things I know nothing about and adding my own two cents as if I understand the subject. Browsing this board for me is fun for the learning as well as the banter. The posts on this board are longer and more often unique, which make them more to have complicated exchanges with than other, faster boards with more generic/formulaic banter.

>> No.16061104

>>16061096
stop.

>> No.16061141

>>16061096
>lying on deathbed
>"I wish I had larped more on 4chan"
this anon is safe from such a horrific last wish

>> No.16061202

294 at 91%
I find it kinda hard to believe that people can read and retain things at upwards of 500 wpm

>> No.16061209

>>16059105
Yup, about that race car driver's reading speed

>> No.16061232

>>16060997

same.what do?

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>>16057818
>5k pages per minute
>0% comprehension
yup, i'm thinking based

>> No.16061245

>>16060999
I do this too. Whats it called

>> No.16061283

https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1
This is fun.

>> No.16061287

>>16061242
based indeed my dear sir

>> No.16061349

>>16060936
I find the discussions very interesting, but i rarely post. And i also started reading again because of you guys :>

>> No.16061567

>>16057818
249wpm at 82% efficiency

>> No.16061608

https://www.7speedreading.com/
Is this any good?

>> No.16061679

470 at 91%
Honestly don't think anyone should feel bad about having a low wpm, having a horrible attention span like me is far worse

>> No.16061979

>>16057818
>993wpm
>5% reading comprehension
i read really fast but i forget everything in a couple minutes is not like i dont get it

>> No.16062244

342 WPM 82% comprehension


I don't think their conversion chart for reading on paper is accurate, I know I don't read more than 280 WPM when reading a more advanced book.

>> No.16062261

>>16058724
>>16058901
>>16058913
>>16059019
Monologuelets. Imagine not having anything going on inside your head lmfaoo

>> No.16062269

>>16060138
You don't. The people who preach about their high speed and reading comprehension will have forgotten the material in a day or two. You having, in your own voice within your head, said the words of the material, will continue to recall it for much longer. It's the same reason that physically writing things down helps with comprehension.

>> No.16062297

>>16057911
sub-vocalization may make you read slower, but each word you read is practice for pronunciation, which will ultimately make people who sub-vocalize better speakers with a wider spoken vocabulary than people who do not

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>>16062261
don't need to skeet.

>> No.16062313

>>16057818
174 wpm at 100%

I think the reason why I read so slowly is that I always read aloud the text in my head, I can't read any other way.

>> No.16062395

>>16057818
230 wpm with 71 comprehension... Damn i'm a reatard since that was extra speed reading. I'm pretty sure that i read with talking speed.

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>>16057818
well atleast my reading comprehension is 73%

>> No.16062626

>>16059019
Is it even enjoyable to read fiction like that? I assume this is only for work related topics or news articles?

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>>16057896
Well, some of us trouble focusing. And don't fucking say it's because we don't try to pay attention or we aren't that interested in what we're reading to begin with. I'm constantly trying to keep a firm grip on whatever needs my attention, including driving or even a simple TV show, but it hardly works. It's like there's this barrier between my eyes and my brain, and the latter keeps getting this hazy, convoluted image of what my eyes receive. It isn't always like this, sometimes my focus is like the breaking of a dam (honestly, this is only thing keeping me from contemplating whether I'm actually just stupid), and it's fucking great when it happens--but that lasts for about 15 minutes before I'm staring off into space with a billion other thoughts racing in my head. I fucking hate it.

Any other anons have this issue and knew how to overcome it? Any advice will help. I don't have health insurance, so I can't afford ADHD testing.

>> No.16062652

>>16060052
Or maybe people experience things differently than what occurs in your tiny little world.

>> No.16062910

>>16061979
The trouble is that, if it's fiction, you won't really get it if you can't remember. That's my issue. My reading comprehension is fine, but I struggle really badly with plot unity.

>> No.16062914

>>16060759
I often feel my tongue moving in my mouth when I'm reading, and it gets on my nerves.

>> No.16062931

>>16060741
Even in fiction it's about quality over quantity. Obviously it depends on what you're reading and why. If it's something non-challenging like Stephen King, yeah, I see your point.

>> No.16063010

218 wpm with 82% comprehension.

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>>16062261
>he thinks in man made languages and not the images of god

>> No.16063148

>>16057818
430, 100% comprehension, not a native speaker. seems legit