Words, words, words and some statistics

[janne_d]

Staples has a reading speed test you can take:

Source: Staples eReader Department

According to this, I read 1036 words a minute and that makes me 314% faster at reading than the national average (for the US I take it since it seems to be the US site).

Now, I'll give them that I do read very fast. But I simply can't believe that I read 314% faster than average. The way they calculate it has got to be off.

Comments

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

I went by how long it took me to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows vs how long War and Peace is. Uhm. *shrugs* If I took out the potty and munchie breaks I took with HP TDH....it's pretty close.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I haven't read either of those, but my mental picture of the books makes them about the same length. They probably are right about the times, I just found the comparison chart bizarre - and I'd like to know where it came from, since they weren't asking in the test for educational background they obviously weren't generating it from their test.

[lenarabella.livejournal.com]

I'd have to agree. Apparently I only read about the same as the average 11th grader. Umm, no. So many reasons that's so wrong :)