# Test your reading speed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917 "2007-03-14T18:25:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/41 "2007-03-17T22:09:36Z")
My base score is 745. I didn’t do the improvement, might do later. Im sure I could go faster but I do read faster than most people I know. My law school classmates are envious. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/42 "2007-03-17T23:11:22Z")
397 to 390. I read more carefully the second time thinking they would change the type of questions around so people couldn’t just skim for basics. Also I can only read out of one eye so probably the peripheral reading and larger group reading skills are not available to me. ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/43 "2007-03-17T23:15:47Z")
[QUOTE=Andrew Bird] How are people getting scores over 1000? When I just click to end the test as soon as it starts I get a score of 1000. [/QUOTE] I went back and tried the first reading again to see if I got the same results as you. I glanced at the words just long enough to make sure that it was the same paragraph (so I could get all the answers right). I got a 1000. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/44 "2007-03-17T23:32:40Z")
Doing the same thing with the second test gives a score of 18560. I think this test is bullshit. It is set up to give a better score the second time when if the times are the same. ---
**Author:** ![Qwisp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qwisp/32/397_2.png) [@Qwisp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwisp)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/45 "2007-03-18T01:22:15Z")
488 to 489, of course I’ve been drinking so maybe it doesn’t count ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/46 "2007-04-23T21:12:47Z")
610 - 731. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/47 "2007-04-23T21:40:33Z")
Interesting how so many people got more than 1000 – when I went and clicked the spacebar as soon as the info came up (after already knowing the answers – my original score was 325, not bad for being dyslexic and scitopic), no matter how quickly I clicked the spacebar, the highest it showed was 1000. I’m just saying… Heh…now I notice that others have noticed this, too…just sayin’ ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/48 "2007-04-23T23:28:54Z")
695 to start, will do the exercise later and let you know. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/49 "2007-04-23T23:47:17Z")
984 and 1028, but I was really skimming. I think if you try to cheat it and click immediately, it will just give you a score of 1000. Try waiting a second. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/50 "2007-04-24T01:23:38Z")
414 to 414…At least I wasn’t damaged by it… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/51 "2007-04-24T01:37:20Z")
I went from 1287 wpm to 1460 wpm. I think I’ll keep my money-I have enough trouble carrying home books from the library as it is. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/52 "2007-04-24T03:35:35Z")
I went from 704 to 707, and got all the questions right in the first and second paragraphs. ---
**Author:** ![Spiratu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Spiratu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiratu)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917/53 "2007-04-24T16:03:47Z")
I just tried doing what **Pravnick** recommended. If I cheat and click through immediately, it gives me a straight 1000 wpm score, but if I just skim through very fast it gave me a score of 1148 or something. Maybe it does just give you 1000 if you cheat. As for my own score, it dropped from like 400 to 325 or so. I was totally thrown off by the typos in the second paragraph and had to re-read some of the lines. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-reading-speed/395917.md?page=2)