I actually read (most) of the text at 2668wpm (speed reading), and all of it at 900-1200 wpm (my normal speed).

I've been able to read since I was 2 or slightly before, and I've always enjoyed it, so I can't remember a time when I read less than about 550wpm or so (I was at 680 in 4th grade)

I never really thought I was a slow reader until this thread...

How do you guys read so fast? Do you skip most of the text?

I never really saw the point of reading extreamly fast. Either I'm reading a book, in which case I read it slow because I want to enjoy it - or I'm reading references at work, in which case I read it slow because I don't want to kill people because I skipped the important part.

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I think I was pretty good starting out, but then I got bored and started scanning.

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that explains it. but i see all of you have neglected to visit the second link that i gave.

I visited it - no change (although admittedly, I can't see much need for improvement, so I didn't really try hard).

Mangler:
As I stated before, I can only really get the general idea at 2500-3000wpm. In order to get every word, I need to slow down to 1500wpm at the absolute fastest, and usually more like 900-1200wpm. As for the 900-1200wpm, no I am not scanning, that is just my normal reading speed. If I read as slowly as I can without rereading words or passages or taking abnormally long pauses between words, I am at about 450-500wpm. That's just how I read, and as I said, it probably has to do with the fact that I've been reading since I was 2 or younger.

I usually go through about 1-7 books per week, depending on what else I am doing around that time, and how interesting (and how long) the book is. I have a ridiculous number of books in almost all subjects, and my collection keeps growing (a side effect of fast reading).

Practice, practice, practice.

When I was a kid, I did two things: play road hockey and read books. We have a video of one of my brother's birthday parties, and while everyone else is playing games and stuff, there I am, eight years old, reading Lord of the Rings. By cake time, I've moved on to what appears to be a Piers Anthony novel. I might never make the NHL, but I've sure read a lot of good books....

In summary, I'd suggest getting a library card, and using it regularly.

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"It's turtles all the way down."

I read fast enough to be a serious danger to my paycheck. Given that I never sell my (or give away) my books, it costs me extra to store them, too.

I generally read a novel after I go to bed each night

Technical stuff is faster because I'm not taking the time to watch a movie inside my skull - no special effects or imagining of characters... though some Cisco manuals have made me wonder if I can resurrect Torquemada...

All right, now that's impressive. I can maybe hit that speed in French, but I started seriously learning that something like ten years ago. I'm hoping that in four years, I will be able to get through the "hi, how are you" part of a conversation in Japanese without totally bungling it.

What's your first language? Do you use English regularly? (I imagine that would help.) Do you think in both languages, or do you have to translate the English to another language as you read?

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"It's turtles all the way down."

I haven't taken the test, but am confident my result would be Very Slow. I read no faster than I talk.

OK, took the test. 182 WPM and 10 of 11 (91%) comprehension.

Almost average, better than I thought.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

My mother was always amused by those Sports Illustrated for Kids ads that asked, "How do you get your child to start reading?" My younger sister's severely dyslexic, but for me and my older sister, the question was, "How do you get them to stop and, say, clean their rooms?" My older sister was reading by the age of three or four, and she taught me not long after--since she's two years older than I, you do the math!

I read fast because that's the way I read. I've never made a concious effort to increase my reading speed. I have a hard time slowing it down; it's not a matter of savoring, as I'm savoring the books I plow through (depending on a whole list of factors) sometimes two and three in a day. (I don't have a lot else to do these days.) Besides, anything I miss the first time 'round, I'll pick up the next time I read it, or the time after that, right?

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Exactly

I think that right there describes my situation perfectly except that between AP calculus, AP physics, and US Government (that's the worst of the three) homework, I can only get through 1 novel a day or so.

for snark, cjl, and everyone else, you say that the key to increasing your reading speed is practice and reading more books. but see im not a reading person. but i would like to be
please visit this link: http://bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=38674

I have no idea how fast I read and have no intention of finding out.

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316 wpm actually reading for comprehension, that font is bad at the resolution I have, and the background lowered the contrast for even worse results

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Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

Speed - 199wpm
Comprehension - 91%

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