Reading speed. How did you do?

[Mynight]

In this completely 100% accurate reading speed test rolleyes how well did you do?

https://blog.blinkboxbooks.com/how-long-would-it-take-you-to-read-game-of-thrones/

Do you think reading speed matters much?

Definitely not for a book. Surely with a book it's more important to enjoy it than be able to read it faster than others.

 

[robfosters]

77 days for me.

 

[Nitefly]

One day here.

 

[Mynight]

Lol and I thought mine was fast .

 

[ChroniC]

I read at the speed I speak. I speak it in my head and reading any faster seems like I am talking to fast or skimming. I like to read slowly and absorb the imagination. It said it would take me 668 days to get through GOT, which isn't true because I did it in less than a year.

 

[Phate]

109 days for me.

 

[Lycosa]

1611 days :/

 

[robfosters]

109 days for me.

Thicko

 

[robfosters]

1611 days :/

What did you put? 5 mins reading a day?

 

[Ragnahex]

i actually finished got in 7 days on a beach holiday (i get addicted to reading when relaxing) kindles really are a life saver i used to spend hours on holidays trying to find more books

 

[robfosters]

I dont read lines as such. I find I can look at a whole paragraph and it's there.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

It depends on how distracte - OH LOOK SHINY THING OVER THERE!

 

[Lycosa]

What did you put? 5 mins reading a day?

Yeah, I couldn't put 0 mins. I did it again and put in an hour and it got brought down to 88 days.
I used to read ridiculous amounts as a teen. Don't know what happened to me

 

[Phate]

Thicko

I can only read for 40 mins a day

 

[Tom0]

90 days, 664 wpm. 30 mins.

 

[Rids]

Jesus, I've always considered myself a fast reader, I'm always at the end of a newspaper article before anybody else I've ever met etc - but I clock up just under 300 wpm.

How do you read at 664wpm?!

 

[RedDanDoc]

175 days.

411 words a minute.

 

[Judgeneo]

46 days at my natural speed, I could read it a lot faster if the text wasn't so dull though.

 

[Freefaller]

When I read books I tend to read slower as I like to lose myself in the book and picture what's going on and actually enjoy it. News articles I skim read, but reports at work and so on I tend to do something between both.

This test isn't very accurate as it is a short passage that you can put into short term memory just to remember the key facts. As such my results are incorrect.

I believe that my reading speed is at least 1/2 as quick as this. So around 260 wpm at the most - as I said, I enjoy absorbing a book and getting lost in it rather than just getting through it.

 

[John40]

189 days