How fast can you read?

[KIR]

I think reading comic books, for starters, for young children is a great way to get children to read. They used to cost me 10 cents each. A couple of years ago comics went as high as $8 each. They were more graphic novels, rather then beginners comics like Richie Rich, Little Lulu, Disney comics and those of that ilk. About a month ago I went to a bookstore and found them for only $1 each. However, many of the younger family has grown past all of those. I was surprised when my oldest son called to say he had his appendix taken out. After I related what happened to me after I had it removed, he said, he was going to start reading a book. I was happy to hear that.

I can read 15 copies of Hustler Magazine in six minutes.

Who are you trying to kid? You just look at the pictures.

 

[MaxMan]

Well at least your fingertip didn't wear off... or did it???

It did, but I didn't want to sound like a complainer.

 

[GasGuzzler]

I don't read very quickly. I think to much about the words I guess. My sister was always reading. I was always doing. Later when married I realized how fast my wife is and she shared her love of reading with the kids we raised. My girls especially will pick up a giant novel and be done in a couple days. It would take me a year if I didn't fall asleep each time I opened the book.

 

[MaxMan]

I don't read very quickly. I think to much about the words I guess. My sister was always reading. I was always doing. Later when married I realized how fast my wife is and she shared her love of reading with the kids we raised. My girls especially will pick up a giant novel and be done in a couple days. It would take me a year if I didn't fall asleep each time I opened the book.

Ditto, except I have two boys.

 

[coachk64]

Never known my WPM, but I've been a voracious reader since the fourth grade. I remember being kept in from recess for some reason and picking up a Hardy Boys, and been going hard at it ever since. I had a job delivering a local free ad paper, earning $3 a week, and every time I got paid my first stop was at the book stand for another Hardy Boys. Since then I've devoured every Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, John D MacDonald, Robert B Parker, Clive Cussler, Lous L'amour, Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Jack Higgins, Dick Francis, John Grisham and Irwin Shaw, ever written, plus quite a few others.
I subscribe to a service called Book Bub, and get an email every day with a list of ebooks available for anywhere from free to a couple of bucks. I end up buying one or two most days, and now have an Amazon library that I will probably not be able to get through in this life.
I've also been using audiobooks while traveling, and most of the time on the road I'm listening to a book rather than the radio.

 

[coachk64]

Ditto, except I have two boys.

I also have two boys and would give them a reading assignment of so many pages every summer. They both hated it but I stuck to my guns. My younger son now has two children of his own and he does the same thing with them.

 

[XP100]

I read so fast here is Florida that my eyes water up when I get the HO Ins and Vehicle Ins bills

 

[MaxMan]

I read so fast here is Florida that my eyes water up when I get the HO Ins and Vehicle Ins bills

Florida auto insurance, really?

 

[Gopher]

Never known my WPM, but I've been a voracious reader since the fourth grade. I remember being kept in from recess for some reason and picking up a Hardy Boys, and been going hard at it ever since. I had a job delivering a local free ad paper, earning $3 a week, and every time I got paid my first stop was at the book stand for another Hardy Boys. Since then I've devoured every Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, John D MacDonald, Robert B Parker, Clive Cussler, Lous L'amour, Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Jack Higgins, Dick Francis, John Grisham and Irwin Shaw, ever written, plus quite a few others.
I subscribe to a service called Book Bub, and get an email every day with a list of ebooks available for anywhere from free to a couple of bucks. I end up buying one or two most days, and now have an Amazon library that I will probably not be able to get through in this life.
I've also been using audiobooks while traveling, and most of the time on the road I'm listening to a book rather than the radio.

Very much the same experience here. I will admit, since we got on the net back in the mid-90s, I don't read physical books like I used to. This infernal machine seems to provide my reading material these days. When tested in the fourth grade, I was the fastest reader in the class and was reading at a 7th grade level with 90% comprehension. I seem to have passed this trait to my grandchildren.

 

[Colonialgirl]

My Mom taught me to read before I was ever out of diapers and my brother (21 months older) helped my mom so he could get my diaper clad butt off the funnies WITHOUT having to read them to me. Don't really know my speed, but WELL OVER 1000 wpm with a 99.99% retention and comprehension. Read all the sci-fi authors and all their sci-fi books, etc. Interesting story was my Senior year in High School, had an English Literature class where the teacher handed out books and assigned a story to read in them, before the semester was even 1/4 over, I had been through ALL the books cover to cover. This particular day, the story was in the front of the book and by the time she had wandered up and down the aisles, I was reading the story at the back of the book; She had a fit !!! I explained I had read the story numerous times during the semester. (Dont known why she lost her mind, I was an A++ student). STILL remember thee assigned story; "Hemingway; "The short happy life of Francis Macumber" His life time dream was to lion hunt in Africa; finally achieved his goal and didn't spot a lion until the LAST Day, He shot and wounded the lion and it charged toward him and before he could fire another shot HIS WIFE standing behind fired a shot and KILLED HIM (She had the HOTS for the handsome young White Hunter Guide). The moral of the story is that he died happy having achieved his life time dream !
ps: graduated in 1959.

 

[Jeepnik]

For decades folks were complaining that kids were graduating HS and couldn't read. Well, the internet and texting actually helped. Although the meaning of some letter strings is indecipherable to old folks.

 

[TheTexasRAT]

I could write in cursive before kindergarten, but with ADD reading was a chore. All throughout school when a teacher would give us a chapter to read and do the test at the end for that day I seldom ever got through reading the entire chapter. In my mind they only had me for that one hour so I never did the test at the end. I never took work home either being that was my time not theirs. I flunked a lot. Barely graduated with a lot of D-es. Automotive and math were my only straight A+ classes.

I started reading Charley Brown books around the fifth grade and they were the only books I had ever read front to back. I got a copy of My Side of the Mountain in the seventh grade and read it all the way up to the last chapter because I did not want to know how it would end, as to whether the boy moved back to civilization or stayed in the wilderness. I hoped that he would remain n the woods and did not want that fantasy to be ruined. I'm sixty plus years old now and still to this day have no idea how that story ends.

To this day the only books that I have actually read from start to finish are my collection of around ninty reloading manuals. I have been collecting them for five years now. I still have Philip Sharps manual to go and am in chapter two.

I have ADD so I am a very slow reader and have to reread over and over to comprehend and retain what is being conveid. Some got it while others don't. Enjoy what you got while you got it. Read 'em if you got 'em the best you can!

 

[KIR]

I doubt that Sarah Jessica Parker can read two books a day. I heard she has a new job as Spokesfilly for Mane and Tail shampoo and is always busy keeping her coat looking good...

I know...that was horrible!

Yes, Wendy, that was horrible. MEEEOW!

 

[Johnnu2]

I could write in cursive before kindergarten, but with ADD reading was a chore. All throughout school when a teacher would give us a chapter to read and do the test at the end for that day I seldom ever got through reading the entire chapter. In my mind they only had me for that one hour so I never did the test at the end. I never took work home either being that was my time not theirs. I flunked a lot. Barely graduated with a lot of D-es. Automotive and math were my only straight A+ classes.

I started reading Charley Brown books around the fifth grade and they were the only books I had ever read front to back. I got a copy of My Side of the Mountain in the seventh grade and read it all the way up to the last chapter because I did not want to know how it would end, as to whether the boy moved back to civilization or stayed in the wilderness. I hoped that he would remain n the woods and did not want that fantasy to be ruined. I'm sixty plus years old now and still to this day have no idea how that story ends.

To this day the only books that I have actually read from start to finish are my collection of around ninty reloading manuals. I have been collecting them for five years now. I still have Philip Sharps manual to go and am in chapter two.

I have ADD so I am a very slow reader and have to reread over and over to comprehend and retain what is being conveid. Some got it while others don't. Enjoy what you got while you got it. Read 'em if you got 'em the best you can!

ADD............me too.
Fortunately found a career that moved diverse situations at lightning speed; I was successful "because of" a severe "disability" that I never knew I had until in my mid-40's when tested (on my dime).... Sometimes things work out.
J.

 

[NC FNS]

Never checked wpm, but feel like I read just a little faster than I talk.

 

[wproct]

I never had trouble reading, but staying focused was another thing. In elementary school we would have an assignment to read so many pages of history or whatever. I would start reading and think this is kind of interesting. Then after about 5 paragraphs my mind was wandering. I got through school and one year in Jr college and I was done. As an adult I never read books, but I would bury myself in gun or motorcycle magazines and devour every article. I probably haven't read more than 5 books my whole adult life, but if I did it was one that really perked my imagination and I couldn't put it down till I was finished. One of them was when our kids were early teenagers we took the kids to see the movie "Amityville Horror" and I really got into it. My daughter told me that one of her neighbor friends had the book and I had her ask him if I could borrow it. I read the whole book the next night. Each of the other books have been the same.

Our grandson just graduated from law school and passed his bar exam. The books that kid had to read was insane, and about the most boring stuff ever. He virtually about ruined his eyes from countless hours of reading. I hope he is well rewarded because he has certainly earned it.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Ditto, except I have two boys.

Me too. Two of each.

I can type nearly as fast as I can read.

 

[MaxMan]

Me too. Two of each.

I can type nearly as fast as I can read.

I usually mis spell werds as much when I read ans when I tipe.

 

[Skeet 028]

I can read 15 copies of Hustler Magazine in six minutes.

With your eyes closed I'll bet...Is Hustler still printed?? I used to speed read too..Don't know how fast...but too fast I slowed down and found I enjoyed it more. I too read SF...but not fantasy...James Bond ERB,,,even his Tarzans. Asimov My history teacher in HS had SF mags from the 30s-40s and 50s. Read 'em all. The real meat of SF...Dirk Pitt and all of Cusslers writing...Louis L'Amour, Knew Tom Clancy so I had to read his...I still read much SF on Amazon's Kindle inlimited..

 

[WendyZXZ]

I tried to read it but my lips got tired.

And for the perfect effect while moving your lips your tongue has got to be stuck out of the side of a person's mouth.