Do you want to find out how many words you can read per minute (wpm)?
(2) Read the text and try to grasp as much as you possible can while doing so with the maximum amount of speed.
(3) Click on the FINISH button to see your results.
(4) Why not get a copy of the entire text that you’re about to read.
Nota Bene: The text that you are about to read is a short snippet taken from The Study Guide PRO. Also, studies have shown that reading is around 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper
“”Now you‟re probably sitting there banging your head against the wall, dying to know what a gädda is. It‟s actually just a type of fish, widely consumed in Sweden and considered staple food by many Swedes. Fine and all but what does this have to do with me and my college studies?
Good question Jimmy. A few years ago, a group of scientists performed a couple of interesting experiments, mainly by using this fish.
They placed the fish inside an aquarium and fed it by pouring in some smaller fish.
They then placed a barrier consisting of transparent glass in between the gädda and the smaller fish resulting in the gädda constantly trying to reach its food without success (it was prevented by transparent wall). Finally it stopped pursuing the fish, thinking that it was useless to even try. The scientists then removed the barrier and were quite amazed at what they saw; the small fish actually circulated around the gädda without any counter reaction being executed, how come one might ask?
As it turns out the fish had been subjugated to acquire helplessness, a term that may be used in order to describe how a living being can become handicapped by its mere thoughts, thus forgetting about its true capabilities.Are you like this fish, or do you have the actual courage to stand up with your both feet and proclaim; “I will do my best in order to achieve my goals” or will you in similitude to this fish swim around in a pool of emptiness and self denial?
The choice is yours.“
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Woah….446 words per minute!
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admin Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 6:42 am
That’s pretty good!
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SUNNY..?! Reply:
December 20th, 2009 at 8:26 am
You read 388 words in 0.01 minutes. Your reading speed is 38800 words per minute!
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admin Reply:
December 21st, 2009 at 2:11 am
Cheater
kat Reply:
April 5th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
I managed to get through the text ok, but have I actually understood what I have read NO NO !!! Help.
I start uni in Sept and I know I will have to read a lot. I have two children, so I know my study time will be very little. So I need to learn how to read faster and understand what I am actually reading.
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admin Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Hello,
It’s a good thing you start preparing yourself now, that’s a good sign. Don’t worry, there’s a lot of time left until september and if you can handle two kids, university studies shouldn’t be much at all! Try reading everyday, pushing yourself to read a little more each week without it becoming burdesome. The secret lies in persistence, keep it up and you’ll start reading faster in now time. Also check out blogs posts on speed reading and this article on how to read faster.
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pascal Reply:
June 1st, 2010 at 12:03 am
i realy apreciate it and i will try to be reading everyday as fast i can.
Random Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
hah, 636. How good is that?
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anisha Reply:
September 20th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
omg im 11 and i can read 699 words per min YES!! i didnt cheat i can take a quiz on the thing!
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admin Reply:
September 23rd, 2010 at 3:56 am
I’ll consider that a challenge; making a quiz is on my to do list.
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cool hey people
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hanik_237 Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 9:35 am
how much is cosidered fast and how much will be considered slow reader?
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John Reply:
November 22nd, 2010 at 11:32 am
Fast is more than 500 ewpn with proficiency on 85%+
200-250 ewpn with proficiency on 80%+ is the normal.
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You read 375 words in 0.26 minutes. Your reading speed is 1442 words per minute!
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admin Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 2:23 am
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i won’t pretend i only got 286 words per minute (bummer)
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577 WPM Hoorah
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wow I suck, 111 words per minute. I need to do something about this
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admin Reply:
January 8th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Remember, you read a little slower off the screen than off paper. Also, it’s not about how fast you read but how much information you retain.
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218 wpm… amd im only 14
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admin Reply:
January 17th, 2010 at 2:43 am
Nice, keep it up!
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Amber Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I had 647 wpm and I’m also 14.
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admin Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
nice going!
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Hannah Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I’m 11 and I got 996.
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admin Reply:
September 23rd, 2010 at 3:57 am
Skimming is winning
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You read 388 words in 0.93 minutes. Your reading speed is 417 words per minute!
Woot! I’m 13
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admin Reply:
January 22nd, 2010 at 2:31 am
Nice!
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lol i’n 14 and i got 377 wpm.
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I got 374… Im younger than 10
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It says I just read at a rate of 1974 words per minute. I know I’m a fast reader, but I don’t think I read quite that fast.
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wow, i thought i could read faster… only 373 words in 1.15 min! wow
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You read 375 words in 1.38 minutes. Your reading speed is 272 words per minute!
But I can’t recall any of it!! Any tips?
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You read 374 words in 0.06 minutes. Your reading speed is 6233 words per minute!
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admin Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 12:52 am
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I read “You read 374 words in 1.74 minutes. Your reading speed is 215 words per minute!” Which I would like to be faster, but I do know what I read. I’m sure I could pass a quiz over the topic.
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179
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admin Reply:
March 12th, 2010 at 6:50 am
With practice comes perfection.
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“You read 374 words in 1.03 minutes.”
How does it come to this conclusion? I can understand the timer bit, but how does it figure the word count?
Still and all, 363 wpm isn’t bad for non-peak hours of attentiveness.
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admin Reply:
March 17th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Divide the number of words (which I’ve cleverly already calculated
) with the time, giving you words/minute.
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DeeDee Reply:
May 5th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
So it’s just a broad average. Okay, that makes sense. Except that I know I skipped words; it’s just how I read. Saves a lot of time. So the actual average wpm is lower (probably on the order of 290-320), since I read fewer words than are actually written in the sample.
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“You read 388 words in 1.14 minutes. Your reading speed is 340 words per minute!”…is that considered fast? I wonder how other poeple average in this test…^_^
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admin Reply:
March 17th, 2010 at 10:51 am
There used to be a little box somewhere on this page which listed different speeds on what they meant. I’m gonna have to post that up again!
Remember, you want to improve your reading speed and (more importantly) YOUR OWN reading comprehension. Just to put things in perspective
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I have read speed reading guides in other websites but its pretty typical, you just have to be concentrated in what you’re reading and be interested in it, try not to let your mind wander away like me
(288 words per minute)
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admin Reply:
March 19th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Hehe, great advice! Thanks for sharing.
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318 per minute
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Three hundred and fifty-four WPM. OK.
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i read 388 word in .89 seconds which is 436 wpm…i guess thats not too bad after 5 beers in 2 hours which is 2.5 bph…lol, i wonder how i would do when im not buzzed. there should also be a section on this site which rates your score (drunk, poor, average, above average, excellent, genious) and maybe a comprehension test to see how much of what u read u actually retained. And also what kind of category that puts u in e.g. (450 wpm with an 87% retension rate means this, or that)…just a few suggestions. if anyone here has a link to a site that has something like that could u post it? or email me at Vvalle@gmail.com…any help would be greatly appreciated, improving my speed reading has been something ive been interested in doing for a long time
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‘You read 375 words in 0.31 minutes. Your reading speed is 1210 words per minute!’ (hum… I guess this is okay? :I )
I only recall about 3/4 of it… hahaha, I can’t remember the second paragraph of ‘Proofreading’ or any of the ‘Survey-Reading… blah blah blah’
Does anyone know what the average for a teenager, 13-17, is? Reading speed along with comprehension, not just the speed.
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You read 375 words in 2.68 minutes. Your reading speed is 140 words per minute!
not bad considering english is my 4th language…
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admin Reply:
May 2nd, 2010 at 6:53 am
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Amanda Reply:
May 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Why in the world did I just get an email saying “hello, Mr. V”?
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admin Reply:
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:16 am
Sorry Amanda. My bad it seems…
Our comment application seems to be working a little weird so you may have received an email by mistake. I’m sorry for the incovencience, I’ve decided to disable it until further notice.
517 words per minute. Ahaha not terrible
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I know I read slow. I got 165 per minute.
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admin Reply:
June 1st, 2010 at 2:39 am
The speed isn’t really that important, what’s important is what you understood from the text.
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whoa, 13 yrs old, 887!!!
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Hannah Reply:
September 17th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
11 years old 996 wpm
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“Your reading speed is 237 words per minute!”
- bad for me. i’m 15 years old.T.T
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You read 375 words in 0.1 minutes. Your reading speed is 3750 words per minute!
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LOL:
You read 388 words in 0 minutes. Your reading speed is Infinity words per minute!
Of course it isn’t true, I just wanted to see how fast I could click “Start” and “Finish”
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admin Reply:
May 14th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Haha, nice one.
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595 words per minute.
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I doubt most of the people here comprehended even sixty percent of that passage. A follow-up quiz would have been nice.
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admin Reply:
June 1st, 2010 at 2:37 am
Duly noted, I’ve had quite a few replies on that issue and I want you all to know that I intend to fix it.
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also you can change the value with javascript injection.. LOL, is this a reading cource of hacking cource?
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Hmm… 893 wpm and I actually understood it. I seem to be averaging around 900 depending on which site I use to test my reading speed :S (Is 15 years old)
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Need help!!!
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For anybody outthere, please how do you get 1000 wpm?
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I got 382 =^.^=
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Hmm… here are mine
Reading for Comprehension: 436 WPM
Skimming: 808 WPM
I’m only on 8th grade and a reading is a hobby of mine (at least that is what my friends say.) But a good friend of my read “Deathly Hallows.” in like 4 hours. That is about twice my reading speed.
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woooohoooo 452 words per minute!!
and im only 13, gooooo me, lol
and dont say i cheated becouse i didnt!
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admin Reply:
June 12th, 2010 at 4:35 am
Congrats Beth
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yay!!! im 12 and i got 417 per minute haha put i dont think i got alot of it…. i got the main ideas but not the details
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does speed reading training work for people with dyslexia?
Can people with dyslexia increase reading speed with the normal speed reading exercises?
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admin Reply:
July 18th, 2010 at 8:05 am
Sent you a reply to your mail, check it out!
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wow, 765 words a minute, thats the 4th test ive done with around the same results o_O
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admin Reply:
July 19th, 2010 at 4:00 am
Haha, that’s unusual…
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i always get around 720 and i’ve never taken a speed reading course. im such a dork. D:
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I got 140wpm. That isn’t good for a 14 year old, is it?
It is crazy what some people get.
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admin Reply:
August 11th, 2010 at 8:44 am
Well, what really matters isn’t the speed but how much you’ve retained. I’d rather read 140 wpm and retain most of what I read than read 1000 wpm without retaining anything.
Comprehension is key.
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dang’ You read 388 words in 0.43 minutes. Your reading speed is 902 words per minute!”
this isnt gonna be good in 5 ap classes :/
I hardly understand what i read tho
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admin Reply:
September 23rd, 2010 at 4:05 am
Comprehension > Speed
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“You read 374 words in 2.16 minutes. Your reading speed is 173 words per minute!”
This is what i got, i think i did pretty well considering the fact that i’m not pretty good with resource interpretation. This is practice is really good stuff to use for preparing for exams like me. I happen to go through my school website and the english department had to hav this link on..
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WELL, i tried to understand the passage but the result is dreadful. i read with only 93 wpm and am now 17. i don’t how do i will good results in my english exams with my terrible english skills.
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admin Reply:
September 23rd, 2010 at 4:01 am
The more you read the easier it becomes. It’s always difficult in the beginning but improves with time. Improving language skills take time and doesn’t happen over night, don’t expect it to.
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you read 375 words in 0.12 minutes. Your reading speed is 3125 words per minute!
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You read 375 words in 0.58 minutes. Your reading speed is 647 words per minute! I guess it’s not bad, is it?
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i did 374 words in 0.35 minutes. Your reading speed is 1069 words per minute! man im so brainy
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