Can you beat the world champion's speed reading record?

[Evo]

Copyright issues perhaps? and they probably wanted a famous text which was easily recognizable...its for marketing of e-readers:

It surely wasn't recognizable.
It was highly confusing and I had to re-read it several times, and gave up getting it.

In other words, it wasn't interesting or enjoyable.

 

[Enigman]

Perhaps a bit of context might help? The previous chapter:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/b1c3.html

 

[Borek]

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." (Woody Allen)

 

[Enigman]

Crop your puns Caveat.

 

[Caveat]

lmao that was a wild guess, I'm an average reader

 

[Enigman]

lmao that was a wild guess, I'm an average reader

I meant crop the picture not the post...picture was exceeding the post frame.

 

[Caveat]

lol yeah I know but it would have been deleted anyways because I was just being silly.. I couldn't read 3000 wpm if my life depended on it

 

[AdrianHudson]

Amoebae don't have finals to worry about.

I feel like this would be the biggest upside. :D

 

[cjl]

Around 840wpm for me, 3/3 correct (843 on the first test, 837 on the second).

 

[kuva]

First try, I got 245...the writing was different from what I'm used to so I read a little slower. The second try, I got 331.

 

[FreeMitya]

. . .I guess considering I have mild OCD and need to make sense of things. It made no sense. Eh, I read for pleasure, not for speed.

I have severe OCD and sometimes compulsively reread sentences ten or fifteen times. It helps me memorize the material, though. :D

 

[jim mcnamara]

I got 4WPM. Oh oops - forgot to read the directions, takes too long... this took 6 minutes to write and then check...

 

[Student100]

You read 10,540 words per minute.
That makes you 4,116% faster than the national average.

That's because I clicked finish right away, I immediately recognized the passage, all three questions were right.

When I do it for reals I get 230 wpm, I guess I appreciate reading comprehension more than the swiftness of reading.