How fast do you read?

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Yes. I am in fact aware of what I am saying here.

Growing up my dad would sometimes test my reading speed for me by giving me a new fiction book, telling me to start reading, starting the timer, and seeing how many pages I got through in the minute and how many lines were on the pages in this book. This started happening every so often, when I asked him to do so, after in 4th grade when I realized that not everyone read as fast as I did. I truthfully thought this was normal. Whenever we were given reading assignments in class, I read the chapter or two. Then I read them again. And then I finished just after the first person to finish would. This meant that what we were supposed to do was read everything twice in case we missed any details the first time through. One time the teacher said something that made clear that that time he only wanted us to read it once, so I read it, put the book down, and said "done", and having finished so much quicker than the teacher I confused him drastically. He believed me though, figured out what'd happened, and decided that whenever he had to test my reading skills he'd ignore the unnecessary rules and test me in the ways that were convenient instead, as well as they were accurate tests.

The way I test my reading speed is by counting pages. The normal tests I don't find accurate for someone like me, and many of them expect you to not finish a passage in a minute that has less than 1000 words in them because most people read at those speeds - average speed being down near 300 wpm makes that reasonable.

Yes, I'm an abnormality here. That is in fact what I'm saying. We cannot get an official measurement for number of standard deviations above average because of not having accurate enough test results - all we know is that I'm faster than more than 99.9% of college graduates. That's the statement that was written down on my diagnostic evaluation when I was officially tested in a professional setting with a test that could not actually test me properly but could get some result. He'd never had any person finish the entire text before.

did you learn to read or did you just read?

Hyperlexics often read incredibly fast - another, more useful, comorbid of ASCs

1345 wpm, 82% comprehension.

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210/231 for speed (I tried it twice, first time normally and second time trying go fast)

I got 91% comprehension but I've always been good at that.

I thought I'd be faster but as long as it doesn't effect my comprehension I don't see a problem with it.

I think if I'd been given a more interesting example or one I'd read before my speed would have been different.

Don't remember. It's also somewhat complicated to identify things like hyperlexia when you're also dealing with giftedness.

After taking several different reading tests online, I have concluded that my reading speed is between 500 and 590 words per minute, depending on what exactly is being read, with a reading comprehension around 75%.

Well I think I win the prize as the slowest reader in this thread so far: 186wpm and only 76% comprehension (think I could have done a lot better if I was less tired and more determined). However, I totally relate to what Rebel_Nowe said about mentally saying everything as I read which does slow things down a lot. I also often find that I'm reading away happily at considerable speed and then suddenly realise I'm not 'listening' to what I'm reading anymore. Then I have to go back a para or two and start over. Especially difficult if there are distractions, but most of those are inside my head, not outside and I end up listening to a different train of thought which I think is also voiced verbally.

i got 233, and 82 percent comprehension. i've always kind of struggled with reading and learned to read books kind late in my life such as highschool and that made passing classing in school more difficult.

1800 with 96%

412 @100% comprehension and honestly, I felt like I was blazing through the text. For people at >1000, you must ingest the information in a totally different way like photographic memory or something because I honestly can't even imagine what my brain would feel like actually making sense of written text at that speed. I do type 127wpm with zero mistakes though: http://twitpic.com/4m57lv

430, with dyslexia .
I find it easier to read smaller amounts of writing like in the link, if the writing is close together, and there is allot of it, I have problems.
My dyslexic brain is also more focused on reading the words, as opposed to it's meaning, so I won't remember as much as I otherwise would.

I can only read typed txt fast, hand written text takes me ages to read.

167 wpm. I laugh. Not surprised. I'm a very slow reader, because my OCD makes me understand every single word before I can move on. However, my comprehension and memory for what I read is through the roof. I have a type of "photographic memory," and I can "see" pages from books vividly in my head long after I read them. And I was undoubtedly hyperlexic as a child. As a child, I was a pretty fast reader, but when my OCD became full-blown at age 11 1/2, my reading speed ground to a halt.

Edit: Didn't see comprehension test. Just took it. Got 82%. But really, I feel I only missed one question. I didn't understand that "speaking speed of race car driver" one, because it used the numbers in a different way than in the text and got me confused.

very slowly.

I managed 320 words per minute with a comprehension rate of 73%. I would've scored higher on the comprehension test if I didn't second-guess myself on a couple of the questions, though.

I just went through all of the responses so far, finding that my reading speed is the slowest recorded as of yet. After reading Callista's post, I wanted to clarify the other main reason I'm such a slow reader. Besides my OCD and being easily distracted, I DO "see everything" at once when I'm reading. My eyes just naturally dart down the page and see what's coming next and such, so because I have the compulsion to read every single word and transform it into visual imagery for total comprehension, it takes a great deal of time to get my eyes to stay on one line at a time and not scan the whole page.