Reading - do you read fast, slow, average?

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how fast is fast? how slow is slow? what are the numeric cutoffs. this questionnaire is vague and useless. I could put very fast and only be average.

and reading comprehension depends on the difficulty of the reading material as well.

if the reading material is average 5-6th grade material while is what the average person could read and comprehend...

I can read 200+ pages an hour.

if the reading material is a medical textbook maybe more like 100-150 pages an hour.

background knowledge? faster

fiction? faster

nonfiction? slower?

math?... I always take my time with math.


slowest? poetry. I can never comprehend that stuff.

I think you've already figured out that the poll was kind of loaded to begin with.

Extremely fast ever since I can remember. My reading skill was usually four to six years above grade level. If I really get into a book I can finish in 2-3 hours.

Very fast. I tend to re-read passages over, however, so it might take me a bit longer.

As for reading out loud-- I don't do so well.

I read REALLY fast! I think it's because my brain can pick out the important information really easily, and throw out the rest.

I read normal pace outloud, but have always quietly read very slowly. It's not the words themselves I have always had a problem with. This is one reason I have a distaste for fiction novels. Too much effort for something I don't grasp anyway. Yes I tried Harry potter and world of warcraft books. Got through one chapter and eventualy stopped, saying "Ok, what the hell is going on here again? " Warcraft was so much worse to get than Potter. geez. On the other hand, give me a 'dull' text book on diseases, and I'm fine.

Last edited by LiendaBalla on 23 Dec 2008, 10:40 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Spoken faster than read in private (Book close to face, light rivers, tics, re-read for comprehension.)

I wish I didn't need everything spelled out before I made a decision. and looking at the actual poll I would say yeah, since it seems that super speed is the new average.

It depends. Sometimes very fast, sometimes very slow.

I have difficulties with comprehension sometimes so this determines how fast I read.

I read fast, but often miss words and can't comprehend what I just read. Well, it's not so bad when I don't have glasses on but without them the page is just too bright and the words blur. And my little eyes sting.

For me, slow I sometime feel I am dyslexic

I read the normal speed one does in their mind, slightly faster then when reading out loud but not that much faster.

What speed would make a reader 'very fast' as opposed to 'faster than average'? I voted for 'faster than average', but realised I am not really sure what average is, nor what counts as 'very fast'!

I can breeze through a book in no time with great comprehension. Yet when I am shairing a book with a friend I seem to read so much slower than the person, yet I read at my normal pace. I don't understand.