Can you read 900 words per minute?

[Shellback Squid]

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1s4f4c6/can_you_read_900_words_per_minute/

[3catwoman3]

1. That was fun.

Interesting about the red letter in the middle of each word.

It felt quite fast at the end, but I was able to keep up, and to comprehend what I was reading.

[True Dough]

2. You want me to slow down to 900?

My comfort zone is closer to 1,500.

Kidding! Just kidding!

[usonian]

3. I can recite the entire Constitution in 5 seconds or less.

"The Entire Constitution"

[buzzycrumbhunger]

4. Apparently, I can.

I wouldn’t have guessed as much, though. I suppose I can thank the fact that I’ve always been a voracious reader, especially since I jettisoned TV over 10 years ago.

I also did acute care transcription for 15 years, which requires speed (we were paid by the 56-character line and had to do a minimum of 10,000 lines a day—more if you really wanted to eat and pay the bills) and that probably helped with speed, as well.

I normally read 250 to 360-some books a year (Covid was great for my numbers… *eyeroll*)

Sometimes, it irks me when I finish a book I’m really enjoying because I wish I’d savoured it more—but then I’m on to the next. Hooray for freebie book lists!

[yorkster]

5. This was fun. Thanks.

[Bayard]

6. Well, I guess I did,

But I wouldn't want to read a book that way.

[chouchou]

7. Liked it. Was not as hard as I thought.

I suspect if the words were not in order and more letters....well....all bets are off.

[skypilot]

8. I'm too much in my cups...

...for that nonsense right now.

[LogDog75]

9. You have to get your mind in the right frame of mind for speed reading

I took a speed reading course in the early 70s and I could do over 1,000 words per minute. My roommate didn't believe it worked and challenged me with a book I hadn't read. I spent about three minutes reading it and then explained what I had read to him. He became a believer.

I haven't kept up my speed reading because work only allowed me time for work related reading. Since I retired, I now read about 50 books a year. Depending upon the subject matter, how it's written, the font and spacing I can pretty much read around 700 words or more a minute. I still remember the speed reading drills and maybe I'll get back into increasing my reading speed.

[mwmisses4289]

10. Hmmm...guess I'm a slow reader, maybe only about

700 words a minute? The last quarter of that I was only catching a few words and it stopped making sense.
I was a voracious reader as a kid, and while most of my books now are on my phone or tablet, I still read quite a bit.
I know when I was younger, my friends were often startled by how quickly I seemed to read. I didn't think it odd to get through a book in a few days, but my friends often took a week or more. It did take me about five years to slog through gone with the wind, lol.

[Emile]

11. This is so cool. Bookmarking

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Had No Problem Keeping Up

I had some minimal training in rapid reading methods in college.
I was up around 1,500wpm then. Probably somewhat slower now.
900 was quite easy.

[BlueSpot]

13. I kept up

But then I have always been a pretty voracious reader.

Actually the reason I'm posting a response is to ask if anyone else had read the comments. Somebody said it would be hilarious to put a jump scare in that video. I nearly created a Reddit account just to high five that person.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. Yes. I have slowed down in recent years, though.

Back when I was in fourth grade, the teacher would set a speed for the class and we would do the exercise. Then, she would ask if anyone wanted to read faster. She would basically do an 'elimination' round, where she would increase the speed with each section and go until everyone said they could not keep up.

The class did not like me. I was so far ahead of them in reading speed and comprehension that she eventually would do the round for everyone else, and then she would just start increasing the speed until I 'tapped out'. I used to love it, but the others did not. I was accused of 'messing with their grades' because I was so fast and they were so slow. (It did not do anything to the grades. I just got a good grade because I was a very fast reader. The teacher did not 'penalize' anyone for not keeping up with my speed.)

It was one of the first lessons in humanity that I received. Some people are just idiots and there is nothing that one can do about it.