# Average reading speed / your reading speed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-reading-speed-your-reading-speed/248505>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 3, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-reading-speed-your-reading-speed/248505 "2004-06-03T20:57:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-reading-speed-your-reading-speed/248505/21 "2004-06-05T15:37:07Z")

</div>

522 with 100% comprehension on light reading. That article was godawful, though.

Study was 618 but with terrible comprehension. I knew that going in, I usually have to read statistics three or four times before I get them down.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-reading-speed-your-reading-speed/248505/22 "2004-06-05T22:26:05Z")

</div>

I got 800+ on the speed, with 70% comprehension. It was an awful article.

I should have tried narrowing the window a bit; I’m so used to running down paragraphs diagonally, in books, that I found the long lines of type across the whole screen to be difficult to read.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Inferno1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/53a042/32.png) [@Inferno1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inferno1)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-reading-speed-your-reading-speed/248505/23 "2022-11-21T22:39:23Z")

</div>

I got 411, with 80%. I’m slow.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/average-reading-speed-your-reading-speed/248505.md?page=1)