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) See the box on the right for the interpretation of your results.
Nota Bene: The text that you are about to read is a short snippet taken from the Wikipedia entry on “reading”. If you are interested in learning how to improve your reading speed, the link on the right will help you do that. Also, studies have shown that reading is around 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper
“There are several types and methods of reading, with differing rates that can be
attained for each, for different kinds of material and purposes:
Subvocalized reading
combines sight reading with internal sounding of the words as if
spoken. Advocates of speed reading claim it can be a bad habit that
slows reading and comprehension. These claims are currently backed only
by controversial, sometimes non-existent scientific research.
Speed Reading is a collection of methods for increasing reading speed without an
unacceptable reduction in comprehension or retention. It is closely
connected to speed learning.
Proofreading is a kind of reading for the purpose of detecting typographical errors. One can learn to do it rapidly, and professional proofreaders typically acquire
the ability to do so at high rates, faster for some kinds of material than for others, while they may largely suspend comprehension while doing so, except when needed to select among several possible words that a suspected typographic error allows.
Structure-Proposition-Evaluation (SPE) method, popularized by Mortimer Adler in How to
Read a Book, mainly for non-fiction treatise, in which one reads a writing in three passes: (1) for the structure of the work, which might be represented by an outline; (2) for the logical propositions made, organized into chains of inference; and (3) for evaluation of the merits of the arguments and conclusions.
This method involves suspended judgment of the work or its arguments until they are fully understood.
Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review (SQ3R) method, often taught in public schools, which involves reading toward being able to teach what is read, and would be appropriate for instructors preparing to teach material without having to refer to notes during the lecture.
Multiple Intelligences-based methods, which draw upon the reader’s diverse ways of thinking and knowing to enrich his or her appreciation of the text. Reading is fundamentally a linguistic activity: one can basically comprehend a text without resorting to other intelligences, such as the visual (e.g., mentally “seeing” characters or events described), auditory (e.g., reading aloud or mentally “hearing” sounds described), or even the logical intelligence (e.g., considering “what if” scenarios or predicting how the text will unfold
based on context clues).
However, most readers already use several intelligences while reading, and making a habit of doing so in a more disciplined manner — i.e., constantly, or after every paragraph — can result in more vivid, memorable experience.”
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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.
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April 10th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
hah, 636. How good is that?
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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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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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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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“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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you read 375 words in 0.12 minutes. Your reading speed is 3125 words per minute!
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