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Get on my level, losers.
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>>>/trash/
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http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-research-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/

If you plebs want to find out how slow you read.
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>>7879142
I clicked finished as soon as the page loaded and I only got 6000 something
what an unbelievable shitpost
/lit/ isn't interested in you bragging about how fast you can click a button
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>>7879125

14% above average, not even my natal language.

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>>7879125
>Judging your litterary skills by quantitative measures
>Patrician

Pick one, faggots.
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At 20k WPM
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>>7879660
Kek'd
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>>7879660

>not having War and Peace memorized and able to cite any section verbatim when called to do so

wew lad
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>>7879129
what the fvck
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>>7879125
56% higher than national average. Noice
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98% memer than average
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I got 107%

Come on /lit we must be able to get higher than "high scoring college students"

> inb4 this is a fucking waste of time
> it is though
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I got 110% but I feel like I cheated because I had read the book before so I read it extraordinarily fast
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>6% higher than national average.

Why do I suck so much?
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I couldn't break a thousand
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Is this April's Fools extended?

I'm a 3rd grader now.
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>>7879129
Holy shit it's real!
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What's the point of this. Just clicking you're done aside there is nothing preventing you from just skimming the text sacrificing a deeper understanding for speed.
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Get on my level, plebs
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>>7881047
For real though
Not a native speaker btw
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>>7879660
>not being able to read war and peace on your lunch break

fuck im pleb
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>>7879129
Oh God I never want to see that board again.
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I once tried out tricks taught to people to speed read but it was difficult for me. Like the one tip to stare at the freaking middle and read with your peripheral vision so you can read more than one sentence faster. I just couldn't help but follow the words with my eyes.
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>>7879129
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>>7881819
I did read the page, bit I took nothing in, if that makes sense.
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I got 668.

College professor yo
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To add, you guys should just try and speed through the text, sometimes I read things slowly to make sure I'm 'getting it' but really things come together holistically when you just relax and read it fast.
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>>7879125
>http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/technology-research-centers/ereaders/speed-reader/
This test says I could read War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy in 16 hours and 44 minutes.
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12,668 words per minute and 4,967% faster than average.

>tfw read so slow that The Grapes of Wrath takes you 13 mins
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Not even a native speaker. all 3 tries above 1000
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27% faster.
>tfw pleb
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