June 6, 201213 yr http://www.staples.c...ader/index.html And yes, this was my first try. I understand that once you have read it several times, it will be easy to beat. So stop cheating, cheaters! Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish!
June 6, 201213 yr We had around the same IQ and it seems we have the same reading speed too. Fortune favors the bald.
June 6, 201213 yr I did 350. It seems like you would need to do a bunch of these to get a real clear indication of your speed. I also know I personally take awhile to get up to speed, when I'm grading tests the first few are always pretty slow, but once I hit a groove I get going pretty well.
June 6, 201213 yr 500 then 477. Probably read too fast. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
June 6, 201213 yr Sample size is much too small. The test should have had a couple of pages and averaged the result. Apparently I'm 28% better than Joe average. Of course being able to sit your ass down and finish is a much more useful ability. I suspect the fact that this is a test makes people read at breakneck speed which you would not maintain long in a real setting. PS: it's an ad for Kindle. Edited June 6, 201213 yr by Gorgon Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all.
June 6, 201213 yr After my first attempt got interrupted by family members deciding to ask me 20 questions.. my second go hit 800. Although the fact that it seems to throw pages of "classics" as it were at you (Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz etc.) it's not like you really have to have good reading to answer the questions if you've read them before. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
June 6, 201213 yr I surprised myself by getting 99% above average but I agree with Gorgon, needs to be bigger.
June 7, 201213 yr If you make a lucky guess, you can get 3700+ words (just trying out the limits of the system). I think I got around 475 or so in first try. Then tried it again without reading and just answering the questions right away. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
June 9, 201213 yr 386. It's a lot bit slower than when I compare to how long it took me to read some of those books, but that's paper, lying down and being in the "zone". And my native tongue. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
June 20, 201213 yr 917. I "could read War and Peace in 10 hours and 40 minutes." Faster than I expected, not a good test, like already mentioned. Sounds about right for "in the zone" fiction reading however....not that I would actually remember even half of the book afterwards, mind you. Actual retention of specific things is not a part of my casual/fiction reading speed (I'll just remember the basics of the story, main chrs, emotions it brought out in me etc). If I was reading a textbook or something, trying to learn, it slows waaaaaaay down. Couldn't figure out how to make their html code post a pic in the forum so I screenshotted it instead. Still gaming with my 9900k/2080ti/32 ram. One day I suppose a game may inspire me to finally upgrade. Maybe.
June 21, 201213 yr 348 But i have always had a slow and analytical mind, so i wasn't surprised. tl;dr: I am lazy as sin. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
June 22, 201213 yr 330, then 540 Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.
June 28, 201213 yr 12,000. Amateurs. It's so easy when you just skip the text and guess the answers! Edited June 28, 201213 yr by Llyranor (Approved by Fio, so feel free to use it)
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