The problem is, it says read at your normal pace. My pace is only ever normal for what the goal is, or my mood. I usually read things for comprehension, and there my standards are total understanding. If I cannot tell someone in good detail what I just read, I did not read it enough.
The problem here, the questions are so easy, I blew through one gaining only a vague impression of what was happening. I still had some confidence on the questions, and got them all right.
You read 617 words per minute.
That makes you 147% faster than the national average.
The time before it was 400 something, 80% higher. On the reading ACT I got 32s, 34s, and 36. At the time, 97 percentile, or 97% above the average.
The graph itself is wrong, speed reading is not at 1500 words. Comprehension at that rate is ridiculously low. Anything above 300 or 350 words per minute is considered speed reading, because it is hard to sub vocalize without butchering many words as you read. These types of things just open the doorway for pride, and competition, which in terms of reading speed I just cannot get enough of. In part because I feel there is little to no transparency in how people read.
In college, I have been assigned over 700 pages of reading for a week in one class alone. In many instances, to do all the reading for understanding is not only unnecessary but almost impossible. Few like to discuss how they skim or read, or in what fashion they do so. I also wonder what reading methods will make the information stick farther down the line as well? Consider the speed for the college professor, are they really reading that fast? Or "speed reading" many passages because their critique of a certain book will only need support from certain chapters/sections? Who knows, reading, comprehension of said reading, and long term memory with it is an interesting topic.
