Efficient reading leads to efficient learning. In today's information world there is no skill that is more important. AceReader includes progress tracking and reading improvement activities to help you reach your reading goals. It also includes over themed and leveled reading comprehension tests with longer stories, more questions and more choices. Learn more about AceReader at www. Your Speed was: Your Comprehension was:. The average adult reading speed is between and words per minute same reading rate you want to achieve by the 6th grade.
English is my second language. But I manage to read English texts around wpm which is very low and I would like to bump up to Although I know it can be improved by practicing, the main problem is when facing some new words that are not in my vocabulary!
That greatly reduces the flow of my readings! Reading is different for different people. My daughter is the fastest reader I know. She was slow learning to read, falliing behind her peers through second grade.
But something clicked for her in third grade, and when she was eleven I timed her reading at over words per minute. But as a junior in college, she was diagnosed as dyslexic when she could not learn a foreign language. But she went on to graduate in English with honors, and became a librarian. It appears that she learns each word as a single glyph, and because she has been an avid reader since grade school she has a very large vocabulary.
I can read wpm, but without comprehension. Me and my friend finished the harry potter books in 3 months at 3rd grade. After I got a phone, I have stopped reading, but i am reading again. I am 12 years old. I can read at most books a day. My trick is that I read text sentence by sentence, instead of word by word or letter by letter. I have on numerous speed reading competitions, and scored on the verbal portion of the SAT when I was However, I cannot do math for the life of me.
I also read all Twilight books in a week, and all of the Harry Potter books in a month, but that was a few years ago. Honestly, for anyone who stumbles across this article, reading speed is in no way a measure of your intelligence.
The important thing is not that you read quickly, it is simply that you read. There is absolutely no better way to improve yourself than through reading. Fast or slow hardly matters, just be a reader. Yes, being an avid reader is important. Your reading speed will progress naturally with repetition, consistency and discipline.
However, there are some simple techniques to help increase your reading speed without sacrificing comprehension. But, Harry Potter probably has a easier repertoire of words to comprehend so my wpm would be lower on higher level books such as college textbooks. My son read super-fast between 5 and 9 years old. He read Harry Potter one book in a day and finished 7 books in a week during a school break as a first grader.
That was about to wpm. He read 20 to 30 books every week for 4 or 5 years. The fact that practice improves your reading rate, is very clear! I read a couple of hours each day and I have slowly worked my self up to adult reading rate at age There is no greater skill than having the ability to get through new information quickly, and remember it. Very true! I am 14 and an avid reader and only just found out about this wpm stuff but I can already read at wpm!
This was very helpful in college. I recently found some old school records, which included test scores. Skills can certainly be improved or enhanced with training and practice, but I think there are some abilities that people are just born with. At age fifty — nine, my reading skills help me to write better poetry because reading builds vocabulary and sparks the imagination.
Every computer-user who is also a slow typist is aware of the benefits he could obtain with a typing course, but nearly no one suspects the much higher profits he could reach by improving his reading comprehension and speed. The rapid improvement of voice recognition may gradually make typing virtuosity obsolete since a good typist performs well under the speed of speech.
On the other hand, human or computer speaking, with an average speed of wpm, will always remain many times slower than a good reader, without any consideration of the skimming and skipping possibilities.
There are three possible ways to improve reading. The fastest is probably a speed reading seminar based upon good materials and animated by a dynamic instructor. It is quite usual for a slow reader to double and even triple his reading efficiency during a two-day class offering a positive atmosphere, carefully selected texts and comprehension tests. However, as this rapid and encouraging improvement is not sufficiently anchored, it often fades with time.
A book about speed reading is the second possibility. Such a book usually provides speed and comprehension tests as well as techniques to improve reading. It often includes more general information about concentration, interest stimulation, skimming techniques and ways to approach a text. Some methods may include audio or videocassettes. A book-based method requires a good deal of time as well as a strong commitment from the reader.
Finally, a speed reading computer program is probably the most efficient way to achieve top reading levels. Computers offer unique exercises to boost reading efficiency through interactivity, text animation and pacing.
Higher reading skills obtained with a computer screen are totally transferable to reading from paper. Unfortunately the inverse way does not work so well. Speed reading software delivers enjoyable and fast paced training, thus giving the consistent practice necessary to break lifelong slow reading habits. This is the task that seminars and speed reading books usually leave up to the reader. You read at words per minute.
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