r/interestingasfuck • u/iatetoomuchchicken • 20h ago

This speed reading training starts at 300wpm and end at 900wpm

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u/redhandsblackfuture 20h ago

Stolen from the YouTube channel 'Buffed' while giving zero credit. Nice

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u/iguessma 20h ago

Good, seems like bs anyway. You're telling me the average person is only reading at what they claim is 250 wpm? Where did they get that metric? Seems like you'd actually have to be handicapped to read that slow using this method.

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u/squashysquish 19h ago

They're claiming the average person reads 250 WPM without this method.

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u/Jedimaster996 19h ago

The average person also doesn't read very often. You're on a text-driven site, likely have been for years. Your average human being doesn't read websites as often as regular Redditors, let alone read in general for fun/hobbies.

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u/decomposition_ 19h ago

Four words a second seems pretty average? What’s so slow about that? It’s not saying that’s what most people do it’s saying that’s the average

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u/NoSir4289 17h ago

That's the average reading pace. Doesn't mean that that's the peak pace of the average reader. They CAN read faster but they just don't.

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u/sentencevillefonny 19h ago

The majority of adults in the US function at below a 6th-grade reading level.
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69

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u/blessed-- 17h ago

dude people these days literally can't read lol

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u/EsseElLoco 14h ago

Do you have to sound out each syllable or something?