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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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how quickly do you read?
i got 1418, which is irritatingly just below the official speed reading deadline. MOAR practice needed.

www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-research-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:08, 14 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

www.spritzinc.com/
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:10, Reply)
1419

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:10, Reply)
686

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:11, Reply)
1669

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:12, Reply)
1588

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:13, Reply)
blimey you lot should all be working in different professions

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:14, Reply)
I'd have got a faster time in Latin or Greek obvs.

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:17, Reply)
Dwarvish

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:20, Reply)

You read 434 words per minute.
That makes you 74% faster than the national average.

I read at a normal pace mind. Im sure you lot skimmed.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:14, Reply)
Hang on you got what?
That's fucking quick. I got 830 232% quicker than average.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:15, Reply)
i do read v quickly
but it doesn't help at work, i have to force myself to slow down, as otherwise the law just doesn't sink in. and then i have to read it all again. which is NOT GOOD.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:16, Reply)
So you didn't follow the instructions correctly then

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:17, Reply)
no, if it's fiction or something it all sinks in just fine at my natural pace
but statutes or contracts need to be read in a variety of different ways to find the actual legal meaning, ye see
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:19, Reply)
Tell it to the judge sister

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:20, Reply)
i do
sometimes he even agrees with me!
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:20, Reply)
She reads legal papers for a living

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:17, Reply)
Yeah well so she claims.

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:19, Reply)
1

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:15, Reply)
910

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:16, Reply)
The "National Average" must be really fucking slow!

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:19, Reply)
The national average inlcudes the alomst 40% of people who are functionaly illeterate.
edit - actually I just guessed that amount, but it seems to be about 20%, whcih is still fucking awful
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:31, Reply)
I really hope that was on purpose

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:32, Reply)
I really hope your face was on purpose.

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:34, Reply)
It really is

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:35, Reply)
If I'm hungry enough illeatarat

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:34, Reply)
hahahaha!

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:34, Reply)
Is that what you say before going down on swipe?

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:35, Reply)
Hello again lunch

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:36, Reply)
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for...
...oh, you already have
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:36, Reply)
HAHAHA!!

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:37, Reply)
Haha

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:38, Reply)


(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:39, Reply)
officelol

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:39, Reply)
Like people who read The Sun without a hint of irony?

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:34, Reply)
I recognised the passage so I didn't bother reading it.

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:35, Reply)
yeah well i recognised your mum's passage so...

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:39, Reply)
I didn't recognise your's. Because it had decayed due to the length of time she's been dead.

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:41, Reply)
even after being dead for a long time, she'd still turn down your fat face and bulgy eyes

(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:43, Reply)
1,238
But then I'm reading for pleasure not competition.
(, Tue 25 Mar 2014, 16:53, Reply)

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