Speed-Reading progress
Yay! I can use the title box!
Anyhow, I did the first treview test in my speed-reading book. I was rather dissapointed with my results. I got about 536 WPM (words per minute). I got about 240 WPM the first time I tested. So. I’ve more than doubled my speed since June 16th. This should feel nuts, but here’s the catch:
When I’ve been calculating my WPM after practice and such I tend to get things around 700-800WPM when I’m getting full comprehension and up to around 1400WPM when I sacrifice some understanding for speed. I think I might have wanted to make sure that the speed increase I saw wasn’t simply due to understanding less of the text. That seems like a Boris thing to do for a test.
Anyhow, I’m now completely confident in saying that I’ve more than doubled my reading rate in less than a month. That’s pretty sweet. Also, I missed like 7ish days in there due to assorted visitors and other things that occasionally kept me busy. I’m pretty impressed.
But I was expecting to be far more impressed. I might test again tomorrow just for the hell of it to see if my result was a fluke on the low side of things… I’m not a very graceful loser sometimes.
