My average reading speed is 40+ pages per hour. Sometimes below 40. Mostly depends on the writing style of the Authors.
However, I want to know if I’m slow.
And if yes, How can I improve it?
Also, I tried reading the passage in my mind, However it felt quite difficult and distracting, more like losing the track.
So, How can I improve it?
Edit – I’m a new readers, started few months back
by Doofhenshmurtz
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I read quite fast. University has made me good at taking in lots of information in a short amount of time. I don’t know how many pages per hour it equates to, though.
I spend 2-3 minutes (last book I finished was 3.3 minutes average) on a page which is pretty slow compared to other people I have talked to. I also have no idea what you mean by silent vs in mind. I don’t speak while I read.
Studies show that the faster you read the less of the material you actually comprehend and hold onto. So reading fast is actually a bad thing. Plus reading is supposed to be enjoyable. Do you also fast-forward movies as fast as you can to watch them faster? I think not. Idk where this idea comes from that reading fast is something that should be strived for.
Fast.
VERY fast.
Around 800 WPM with full retention last I clocked, which ends up being around 3 pages per minute. Speed reading is much faster but loses information.
As to how to improve: I just read a massive amount and have all my life. There’s no special way to increase your reading speed, just practice.
Also don’t worry about it. It’s not a race, anyone judging you isn’t worth caring about. Read at the pace that’s comfortable.
As to silent: No, all in my head. Mouth can’t keep up.
40 pages per hour sounds about average to me.
I’m significantly slow, when it comes down to it. It sort of depends on the writing style too: on how confused I can get, leading to needing to reread a portion a lot. Depending on how easy I find reading a book, and how well the writing flows for me, also relates to my ability to concentrate when there are outside noises in my environment.
When I read I whisper. If I just remain completely silent, I find it harder to take in what I’m reading. Perhaps if I practiced, it would become easier. But it’s not within my comfort zone to do so. I learnt that if I whisper louder and fast, I can read faster. Can potentially read around 50 pages in an hour… which is more than I thought, now that I’m thinking about it. But I can’t easily or naturally maintain that, and don’t take everything in as much as I would if I read at my own pace.
I don’t read slow to most people but not fast either if compared to my siblings for instance. For me it feels like they just skim the pages.
I read faster than when I read out aloud but I do like to “taste” every word and syllable otherwise it’s not fun for me. My reading pace also changes depending on how fast things are happening in the story right now. Action scenes are read faster than general descriptions.
500 WPM according to the online tests. Took me 17 days to read war and peace as an example.
So yeah naturally pretty fast. It’s just a weird gift I guess.
There are books that I literally devour. If the writing style is good and fluent and the plot is not too deep, I read 1 to 2 pages per minute. Some books, like Ulysses, like to take me 10 minutes per page 😀 I don’t like reading digitally, but one function that I think is great is that you can turn off which page you are on or how many pages are still to come. I tend to constantly think about how many pages are left or how quickly I read. That often takes the fun out of it for me 😀
I read about 40 pages an hour, which is average. Reading isn’t a race, I don’t feel any need to read faster.
My reading speed is around 600 wpm which is fast, but that’s partly because I have a thing called hyperlexia and partly because I honed my skills massively in a previous job that basically involved reading lots of stuff very fast every single day. That job also taught me scalpel skills 😂
I tend to mouth the words, but otherwise quiet.
Edit: No idea of speed, but I once finished Silence of the Lambs in about eight and a half hours.
TIL tons of people read out loud.
Idk. Every time I’ve tried to test my reading speed, my brain freaks out lol. But by my own calculations, with constant distractions (my phone), I read about 50 pages per hour.
Depends on the book. I can crush like 60 – 80 pages an hour if it’s big text and small pages fantasy novel. But if its a dense history paper I can go as slow as 25 an hour. It really doesn’t matter I guess is my point. Do you care about how fast you breathe or how fast you walk when you’re just strolling through the park?
It depends on what I’m reading and how much I’m liking it. If it’s a book with an interesting writing style I’ll take a while to get through each page, but if it’s just pulp fiction then maybe 30 seconds to get through a full page?
If it’s something I’m trying to get through then I’ll speed read it instead. That’s not really skimming so much as reading for content instead of words. So you cut out a lot of the grammar of the sentences and instead go off a mental image of a scene and allow the words you’re going over with your eyes to shape that scene rather than “reading” them. I can usually read a page in around 5-10 seconds, but it’s not as relaxing as doing it the normal way, it’s more for “the library book is due back tomorrow” or “Stephen King is talking about New England again”
I’ve been told I read fast. I’d say if I like the book it’s about 70-80 pages per hour but I haven’t been counting so it might be off. I read Where the Crawdads Sing in one day.
I used to pronounce the words in my mind with my own inner voice (this is hard to describe) but now I don’t do it anymore. I guess I’ve grown too impatient or eager. I usually kind of skip trough the sentence, understand it and move on.
I don’t know my reading speed or how to track that objectively (pages per hour seems arbitrary). My husband reads by using his inner voice to say every word in his mind, whereas I kinda skim over sentences and let the words create a picture that I feel like I’m watching.
I read 750 wpm in depth reading. I just read a lot so I naturally got faster as I got older.
Depends. If I read a regular book I might roll at ~40 pages an hour or so as well, but if I read something more complex (if the text is highly detailed or otherwise complex, it might go slower as well. I have once read 400+ pages in three or so hours, but that book was on my reading list for university and I had a massive headache afterwards.
I believe the average human can read 50 pages an hour. There is a book, 10 days to reading faster, that’s a great resource for speeding up, https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/10-days-to-faster-reading_the-princeton-language-institute_abby-marks-beale/263367/item/4137385/. This helped me in undergrad and grad school.
Speed shouldn’t matter for causal reading that’s meant to be enjoyed. Just read and be present while reading.
I’ve never really timed how quickly I read. I do know that I read quickly.
I don’t pronounce the words in my head. Generally, they go straight to meaning without passing through sounds, unless they’re unfamiliar to me.
My reading *speed* is great, but reading *comprehension* is average.
Essentially, I can read quickly enough and skim well, but not if important information is being given.
It depends on the book and prose but I can typically get through a page of, say, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy with a page a minute. An author like Stephen King I’m a little faster and with YA authors I can chew through a page or two in a minute.
If I’m reading something like Nabokov, it’s 20 pages an hour. If it’s something like The Hobbit, it’s 80 pages per hour.