Take this test to find out how fast you read. You need to answer 3 simple questions at the end to confirm you understood what you read. I read faster than 45% of the British public.
Lenstore created a reading speed test and survey that “gives you a passage from a novel to read at your natural reading speed, followed by questions to prove you understood it.”
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Sorry to say, I only read faster than 34%. Slow reader, I guess. But, I think I answered all the questions correctly.
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You are going for a quality read, not a quantity read. My sample was from Alice in Wonderland. Was yours?
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I’ve slowed down myself. Details are important.
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I did too. The questions were easier than I anticipated.
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Mine was from Alice too. According to the widget at the end, “YOU READ FASTER THAN 92% OF THE GREAT BRITISH PUBLIC,” which may say as much about the British public as it does about me.
Years ago, I went to a workshop sponsored by the NEH, where we were given an absolutely monstrous stack of reading to devour and discuss over the two-week period. As a scientist, I was accustomed to reading at the word or phrase level, digesting each though before moving on. Humanists don’t do that, I discovered, They get the Gestalt of a paragraph at a time, so they were running circles around me. That was 20 years ago. I resolved to reform, and I guess it worked. There’s nothing quite like being shamed by a gang of English professors.
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Sounds traumatizing. You must be a very fast reader.
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Now don’t bite my head off. 😉 I was taught to speed read in the 6th grade and in junior high I read at 3,650 words a minute (with full comprehension). I’ve slowed down a bit but still read over 3,000 words a minute. As an editor, it comes in handy.
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Are you bragging or complaining? Speed reading is a good skill to have.
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Neither – I’m happy with the speed and it helps in my book editing. (Not bragging or complaining – just saying.)
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I am actually very slow, because I have to absorb it, LOL
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That’s fair. Whatever works for you.
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😂
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I got ‘faster than 42%’ which basically means I’m in the middle. but i’m not putting much stock into it. familiar material.
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Not sure how accurate a canned test is anyways.
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Faster than 71% for me. Somehow I thought there was a timer ticking away somewhere. 🙂
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Audrey, I think there might be. How else could they measure us?
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That makes sense. 🙃
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I shouldn’t have bothered reading the excerpt. I know Alice, I could have been better than 100% of the reading public. The question is: how much do you retain of what you have read a week later. Or a year later.
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Good question. With a familiar topic like Alice in Wonderland, I expect a higher retention rate than a denser, less familiar topic.
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