Reading Speed and Comprehension

[Overload]

What's your reading speed and comprehension?
http://www.readingsoft.com/index.html#results is where you can test your reading speed, and there is a link to the comprehension test on there as well.

247 wpm
91% comprehension

 

[DtJ Jungle]

732 wpm

82%

fail reading

 

[Overload]

Your wpm is impressive.

 

[GoldShadow]

392 wpm
100% comprehension

Of course, a lot of these tests are imperfect. Their idea of what constitutes "good comprehension" shows up as bias in the questions they ask after you read. What they consider "good comprehension" (say, asking about specifics) might not be what someone else thinks is "good comprehension" (understanding the underlying themes, concepts, ideas, the author's purpose in writing it, etc). I, for instance, would have asked different questions.

 

[DtJ Jungle]

Yeah exactly. these were pretty easy questions. And the reading material was not difficult at all in my opinion. If they had made me read about biology or philosophy I would've have had to have read considerably slower.

 

[Overload]

I'd say it makes sense to use average reading material for the test as it's most likely what people read the most of.

I agree about the comprehension part though.

 

[MojoMan]

402 wpm

82% comprehension, cuz im a *******.

 

[Mota]

300 wpm

73% comprehension.

 

[Pikaville]

756 wpm

55% Comprehension

I am teh fastest!(Except I dont really take it all in)

 

[Crimson King]

321 WPM.
Comprehension 100%.

Note: you realize this site is advertising their software, right? It's all a tool to basically get you to buy what they are selling. I mean the last question is "What is the best way to improve speed reading: software."

 

[GoldShadow]

what someone else thinks is "good comprehension" (understanding theunderlying themes, concepts, ideas, the author's purpose in writing it, etc)

321 WPM.
Comprehension 100%.

Note: you realize this site is advertising their software, right? It's all a tool to basically get you to buy what they are selling. I mean the last question is "What is the best way to improve speed reading: software."

Wow, that last paragraph/last question were totally lost on me. I feel kind of dumb about that now, especially after I mentioned "author's purpose in writing it"!

Clearly CK's comprehension is actually 120%.

 

[1048576]

670 wpm

100%

I sped read it, and I feel like I got a bit lucky on a couple of the questions, but I'm pretty proud of myself regardless.

 

[SyOn]

604 wpm

91%

yay

 

[Doraki]

I could almost have answered those question without reading the text.
In fact I really skimmed over the text at 900 wpm and got a 82% just through logic and remembering random figures I had seen.

 

[hat!]

I could almost have answered those question without reading the text.
In fact I really skimmed over the text at 900 wpm and got a 82% just through logic and remembering random figures I had seen.

You're right. I super skimmed the text and did the same by answering by logic.
The question are really easy, which is why I got 2032 wpm and 73%

 

[Grandeza]

Well i had 313 wpm. My comprehension was only 82%. Blegh. I was hoping be faster.

 

[Overload]

You're supposed to read at your normal reading speed, not try to read as fast as you can. I'm sure I could've at least doubled my wpm if I red as fast as I could.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

My normal reading speed was 299 wpm.

I got 91% reading comp.

But that test was stupid.

 

[n88]

Normal Reading Speed was 338 wpm.

82% Reading Comprehension.

That seemed like it was more a test of memory than reading comprehension.

 

[ndayday]

342 wpm, and 100% comprehension.

Those questions were silly.

 

[StinkomanFan]

686 WPM
%55

Could've done better

 

[Matt07]

265 words per minute.

And 73% for comprehension.

Eh I enjoy reading a lot, but I'm a fairly slow reader.

 

[Faithkeeper]

254

91%

I'm ashamed.

Speed, I figured I was slow, but missing one was unexpected. I agree, the questions were not appropriate.