383 to 560, but I think it was only because I wasn’t in the mood to read at first. Yeah, that’s right, I need to get ready to read. It did seem to help me anyway though.
847 to 1016.
I got one of the first questions wrong, so I read it more carefully the second time. I figure they adjust your time if you get the question wrong, because I actually took longer reading the second one.
Either way, I’m quite happy with my reading skills.
429 down to 370…I think they have a good system setup there, worth spending money on.
Then again, I tend not to read stuff as light as the paragraphs they gave…gets boring, so I start skipping things…then I need to go back and re-read to make sure I picked it up.
I went from 602 to 516. I also got one question wrong the second time around, but all three correct the first time. And now my eyes hurt and everything looks a bit shaky.
So, not quite the best ad for the product, where I’m concerned.
I just woke up about 5 minutes ago (early evenings are absolute death for me for some reason) so I’m not really putting any stock into my improvement. I went from 284 to 315.
724 to 804. The things for me is that I tend to pick up speed as I read, so reading in short bursts like that was annoying. Plus, like a lot of other people mentioned, once you know what to look for it’s much easier to simply skim the article and therefore finish quicker the second time.
Eh. Started at 1020, got up to 135something.
I deliberately read a bit slower on the first go-around. And got all questions correct both times.
891 to 1317. Once I realized what the test consisted of I knew what to look for and ignored the exercises in the middle. Therefore, I conclude that the test is not really applicable to me.
Could this help somebody? Probably. But not me. I read quite fast enough.
I went from 559 to 627. It was more irritating than anything else.
603 to 463. The grammatical errors in the second reading really bothered me. The graphics were horrible.
I went down from 369 to 355. It was a bit weird because during the peripheral vision training I was getting annoyed. I’ve always found it uncomfortable to even try that method of reading. I like to look at all the words one by one! But I really felt like I was reading faster on the second test but I guess it was just that time flies when you’re reading a paragraph that’s an awful lot like a bunch of paragraphs you just read.
I went from 543 to 763, and I skipped their training.
I think the second reading is easier because you know what to remember. Also I think the first reading was very stilted and awkward, and fundamentally harder to read.
I’d be curious to know more people’s scores if they skipped the training, and really it should be random which reading is first and which is second.
666 to 897, 100% comprehension both times–I’ve really slowed down since 8th grade!
The only valuable part of the training, IMO, is getting your eyes to stay still and accept information as a gestalt. The big difference between bad readers and good ones is word recognition. Bad readers start at the beginning of a word, start spelling it out, get lost and guess. Good readers encompass the entire word or phrase as one unit of meaning and don’t need to guess at which word they’re looking at. I programmed a similar game for my kids to use when they were small–it had varying levels of difficulty in words, the time the word was visible got shorter with each right answer and they had to type the word in completely to get credited with a right answer. They eventually maxed out the game, which meant they were catching fifteen or so letter words in a split second and typing them correctly… No, I’m not an evil mom at ALL!
511 to 602, but I was forcing myself to read fast. I wouldn’t enjoy reading a novel like that. I’d rather just happily poke along.
877, but I had trouble getting the answers! I couldn’t figure out how to click to type or make a selection appear–and then it changed one of my “answers” (it just gave me a movie title-I had not chosen it). Odd.
The only claim to fame I have is that I was tested in junior year and found to be the fastest reader in my Honors US History class (why the teacher was testing that, I have no clue).
Not very exciting.
I don’t like speed reading, and never learned it. For pleasure reading, I’d rather take my time, and for the work related stuff, I need to slow down and absorb.
I went from 616 to 530. Guess Rocket Reader ain’t for me.
From 1173 to 849. My normal reading speed is in that range. I didn’t try to go faster than normal. The exercises were repetitive and boring. I get bored easily without something to think about and get mentally tired from repetitive tasks. I probably would have scored better on the second part if I hadn’t been paying attention to the “training”.
It’s interesting that my reading speed is considered exceptional in regular life but I’m barely in the top ten percent of the people responding in the thread. Dopers do tend toward the upper end of the scale, don’t they.
771 from 589, but it was not in a good position, the texts weren’t interesting to me and by the second text I already knew the level of the comprehension questions, so I wasn’t as careful as with the first. Still, because of the position I couldn’t read by whole lines and having vertical frame lines slows me down.
The grouping exercise got in my nerves, since those groups aren’t “natural” to me. And I found several typos!
I’ve been measured as high as 4000wpm, which is admittedly ridiculous. That particular text was engrossing to me, I had it in a perfect position and I’m quite sure I’d actually read it before. I can read Miguel Delibes’ El Camino, which is not very fat, in 25 minutes, but it’s one of the best-written books I’ve ever had the pleasure to encounter and I’ve read it before.
550 to 690. I thought it was a little boring. I was spacing out during the ‘session’.
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.