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Compare your reading speed to the national average.

You read 804 words per minute.
That makes you 222% faster than the national average.

If you maintained this reading speed, you could read

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy in 12 hours and 10 minutes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling in 1 hour and 36 minutes
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien in 9 hours and 55 minutes
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller in 3 hours and 37 minutes
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell in 1 hour and 51 minutes
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand in 6 hours and 28 minutes
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck in 3 hours and 31 minutes
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper in 3 hours and 1 minute
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens in 2 hours and 48 minutes
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in 2 hours and 16 minutes
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte in 2 hours and 14 minutes
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in 2 hours and 3 minutes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger in 1 hour and 31 minutes
The Color Purple by Alice Walker in 1 hour and 23 minutes
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque in 1 hour and 17 minutes
Lord of the Flies by William Golding in 1 hour and 15 minutes
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut in 1 hour and 2 minutes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll in 33 minutes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum in 49 minutes
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells in 1 hour and 15 minutes
The Bible in 16 hours and 7 minutes

Alannah, you're crazy fast! I only read 485 words per minute.

I read 219 words per minute which they say on the staples reading test makes me 12% slower than the national average. I just read at my own pace and it takes me a few days to several weeks to get through a book and I read an hour before I go to bed at night anyway.

Amber wrote: "I read 219 words per minute which they say on the staples reading test makes me 12% slower than the national average. I just read at my own pace and it takes me a few days to several weeks to get t..."

I think it's nice to really slow down and enjoy the book. I think I've gotten into a bad habit where I kind of feel like I'm rushing with whatever I'm reading.

Plus when I read, it is like I am watching a movie and the people who I imagine the characters to be come to life within the characters and I can hear their voices in my head.

Amber wrote: "Plus when I read, it is like I am watching a movie and the people who I imagine the characters to be come to life within the characters and I can hear their voices in my head."

I would do that too then I get really disappointed if the book does end up into a movie and none of the characters are like what I imagine them to be.

406 words per minute, but then I only got 2 out of the three questions right!

I got 571, but I have to admit sometimes I read without really absorbing anything. If something really grabs me then I'll take my time.

You read 276 words per minute.
That makes you 10% faster than the national average.

And I got the three questions right! And I'm not mothertongue!!!

513 words per minute, 2 correct answers.
As for Laura, not being a mothertongue English I am quite happy!

You read 240 words per minute.
That makes you 4% slower than the national average.

It doesn't matter, I like to read slowly and to enjoy every single word above all in books that have a wonderful prose or deep concepts.

Me too, the three questions right and my native language is Italian :D

380 per minute, 3 correct answers, not mothertongue either. I was surprised to see that this is still 52 percent faster than national average, because eventhough I'd consider myself a fast reader in German I kind of thought I was quite slow in English.

420 word per minute 68% faster than the national average ! And im just a teen !

I read at 293 words per minute (17% faster than the national average). I got all 3 questions correct.

I read 322 words per minute which is 29% faster than the national average, and I got all 3 questions right. I think that's a good balance.

I read 589 words per minute, 3 correct answers. But I found that test made me nervous so am not sure that is how fast I really read!

1 read 722 words per minute! But it was the start of Alice in Wonderland a book I know very well! If I can allegedly , with this reading speed , read War and Peace in a few hours how come I am still reading it after 36 or more years! It's a bit like sprinting v marathon. . I can certainly read quickly for short bursts and have to skim read a lot for my job but the acid test comes over sustaining interest in a lengthy book. My dyslexic daughter who reads very little and very slowly ( she had a kindle for Christmas by the way and is thrilled with the way it is transforming her reading stamina) nevertheless recalls everything in great detail.

Jenny wrote: "380 per minute, 3 correct answers, not mothertongue either. I was surprised to see that this is still 52 percent faster than national average, because eventhough I'd consider myself a fast reader i..."

I'm impressed Jenny. If I were to read anything in another language, and I do occasionally tackle a few chapters of something in French......it would probably be about 100 words a minute at best.

Just redid this test for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz extract a book I don't know well and read carefully. Re-reading a few lines here and there and savouring....
551 words per minute. I think this would be about right... It felt quite leisurely.

Tweedledum wrote: "Jenny wrote: "380 per minute, 3 correct answers, not mothertongue either. I was surprised to see that this is still 52 percent faster than national average, because eventhough I'd consider myself a..."

Tweedledum, hand me some Dickens and I'll be reading at 50 words per minute! ;) I think it also very much depends on the kind of text I am tackeling.

:)

Jenny wrote: "Tweedledum wrote: "Jenny wrote: "380 per minute, 3 correct answers, not mothertongue either. I was surprised to see that this is still 52 percent faster than national average, because eventhough I'..."

I think I would be the same.

275 for me, I think reading speed varies hugely depending on the text being read, some books just take more absorbing than others

Pink wrote: "275 for me, I think reading speed varies hugely depending on the text being read, some books just take more absorbing than others"

Definitely.

Charbel wrote: "Pink wrote: "275 for me, I think reading speed varies hugely depending on the text being read, some books just take more absorbing than others"

Definitely."

Not to be questioned!

Mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I'm not sure how I feel about this sort of thing, because I feel like people equate superiority with reading speed, and I don't believe in that. I can read extremely fast when I choose to, but I don't choose to, because I would prefer to savor the words and read them the way a person would naturally speak. Because it's a *story*, not a race. What do you all think?

Shannon Noel wrote: "Mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I'm not sure how I feel about this sort of thing, because I feel like people equate superiority with reading speed, and I don't believe in that. I can read extremely fast when I ..."

That was not my intention when I posted this thread. I just thought some people would like to know what their speed is. But I do agree with you, books should be enjoyed not rushed through.

854 for me. All questions correct. And I agree that it depends on the book.

I sometimes wish I could read faster, I scored about 400 a minute with 3 questions correct. If I could read faster I could read more books in the short amount of time I have to read!

For me it definitely depends on the book/author/style. If I hate a book it will also take much longer

Marie wrote: "I had to giggle when I saw this thread and had to jump in. The last book I read was Kafkas Metamporhposis and as you all know its a very short book.. approx. 40 pages and yes I have to admit, it to..."

That wouldn't be ME or CFS as I would call it, would it? You don't need to answer if you don't want to but my granny is the same way. I have ME but luckily it's not bad, I just get ill if I'm on the go for about ten hours or more without a proper rest break.

I read about as fast as I speak which is about 120. Slowest on the thread. Am dyslexic. I think I would have been better off before the printed word. Language is for me still mostly an oral phenomenon - I have to (at least mentally) translate the written word to oral before I can understand it.

This may sound strange but for me, a traditional book reader (IDK how it is with ereaders) a lot depends on the size and font of the print.

Timothy wrote: "I read about as fast as I speak which is about 120. Slowest on the thread."

I like to read as fast as I speak too - you're not alone. :) I like having that rhythm, and it immerses me more in the story and the experience.

Nice to see that I've improved.

You read 1,001 words per minute.
That makes you 300% faster than the national average.

Apparently, I read 238 words per minute, which makes me 5% slower than the national average. But I read more slowly on a PC, I guess I would have been faster on a paper book or an actual Kindle. (English is not my mother tongue, though - I think I read faster in Italian).

I think that's really good, especially if Italian is not your mother tongue, I have been trying to teach myself French and I know my reading speed is so much slower as I'm translating in head.

Alannah, I think I would read, like, 50 words per minute in French... and I lived in a French-speaking country for a couple of years! :D

206 at 18% and I think it said slower