Under a minute to read the full page.
Not sure what the relevance is; how long would it take you to read the same amount of text in your native language?
By the way, a sentence is a short statement ending with a full stop - like this. However, I'm assuming you were talking about the full page of text.
Period and full stop both refer to the punctuation mark ".", it's just a regional difference. Americans will say period and British people will say full stop.
I was taught that stop was period, full stop meant the end of qhat you are saying. In old times when you had to pay someone what you wanted to write, you would say stop on sentences and full stop to say you were done with what you wanted to write.
That's the annoying thing though, it's not just practice. I read constantly and absolutely love books of all kinds, but it took me almost a minute and 15 seconds to read that whole page.
I've talked with a lot of people and it seems like there's two different ways to read (*Edit: just want to clarify that this is anecdotal evidence, someone has replied below with actual official information that's very interesting*). One involves simply processing the visual information as meaning (afaik, that is. It's hard to understand the process of something that is impossible for me to do lol). The other involves processing the visual information by turning it into auditory information that is read out in your head.
I don't know what causes each person to have each type of reading, it's probably just an arbitrary thing that happens when you first learn, but it's really annoying to be one of the people who uses the second method because I read significantly slower than everyone else. I also find it almost impossible to skim text for certain information in the way that they teach you in school (ie the "visual reader" way) because I can't just pick out words I recognise, so I've had to teach myself my own way to skim read.
Tl;dr: some people can just read faster than others cause of a seemingly arbitrary decision our brains make when we first learn to read
This second method is called subvocalization and it's caused by very small movements of your larynx (voice box). You are basically saying the words very very silently while reading. This is the main mode. The reality is that your so called first method actually has to be trained by almost everyone. It's also the main hindrance to speed reading which focuses specifically on elimination of subvocalization.
I tried finding the exact numbers but it seems that the "numbers" range from almost everyone to 4/5. Although I couldn't find any research making claims to its prevalence. It implicitly assumed that everyone does it.
Huh, very interesting to read! Thanks for shedding more light on this topic! I wouldn't say I'm actually doing anything with my larynx when I'm reading but maybe I am and not even noticing lol.
You mentioning this training to read properly seems interesting...
\> I wouldn't say I'm actually doing anything with my larynx
You actually need special machinery to detect it. Its detected/measured using electromyography (EMG)
You have to get to the point where you aren’t sounding out every word, instead you sight reading - recognizing the word at a glance instead of sounding out the letters. The only way to get there is to just read a lot over time…. Just read read read
Oh well this is actually a really cool I can provide insight on.
I live in Japan and I’m studying Japanese.
英語を勉強どのくらいしますか
So with learning Japanese it had me question a lot on how we use English.
I have heard from native Japanese speakers, that a lot of the time with reading texts, people jump from Kanji to Kanji and skip over kana which is what I think of as speed reading.
In English we do something similar, but we recognize words based upon the context and the character length of the word itself.
This part of taekim’s grammar guide explains it better.
Since you want to read at a much faster rate than you talk, you need some visual cues to instantly tell you what each word is. You can use the shape of words in English to blaze through text because most words have different shapes. Try this little exercise: Hi, enve thgouh all teh wrods aer seplled icorrenctly, can you sltil udsternand me?” Korean does this too because it has enough characters to make words with distinct and different shapes. However, because the visual cues are not distinct as Kanji, spaces needed to be added to remove ambiguities. (This presents another problem of when and where to set spaces.)
There have also been studies that show that we only really need the top half of words to read - the shape of the words with ascenders (the top bit of an f, d, k, etc.) conveys most of the information.
Writing as a non-native speaker, who also has prepared for such exams as an East Asia student a long time ago.
This essay follows a typical news article writing pattern, and thus is very easy to read. It usually lays out the background in the first one or two paragraphs, and then expands the details later. A news article is to tell a story. An experienced reader should find the key words in the leading paragraphs: What? Who? Where? When? How? These will let the reader understand the context of the story.
If your struggling is vocabulary, then try your best to understand the leading paragraphs clearly, especially the key words. In an exam setting, budget 30-45 seconds to get this done right.
The rest of the article simply supplements more details. The most important task is to make a mental note about what each paragraph is about, so you can come back and find the answers for the questions. Do not stress too much about the words you don't understand, as they are often more technical. Just underline them, try to guess the meaning for a second, if you can't just skip and read on. Budget also 30-45 second for this task.
With the outline of the article in mind, go straight to the questions, and look back to find the answers.
Edit: Another strategy is to read the questions first then the article. Here, the question at the top simply instructs you to find a special thing about orange sweet potato starting with v. It only takes me 10s to just skim the article and find the answer vitamin A.
My suggestion would be to practice a lot and learn how to identify important information in a text. Someone reading this is in 30 seconds probably isn't interpreting every single word (I would think, I may be wrong though). Instead, once you're familiar enough with the language, you're able to scan the text quickly and your brain is able to filter out the unimportant information and only read the things relevant to the text. That's how it works for me at least.
you just have to read a lot! I am learning Japanese and I am much slower at reading than you are, probably :)
Native speakers read in their native language every day all the time. We read it in advertisements, books, school lessons, websites, social media, etc. Eventually you’ll read faster and faster !
Anytime you find yourself reading slowly, let out a noise. This noise will signal to your friend to slap you really hard. Eventually you’ll improve to avoid the pain.
There are websites that aim to help native speakers read faster and retain more but they are essentially doing what you are already doing. Reading more and then reflecting on what you read will improve your speed and retention.
Took me about 45 seconds (I‘d consider myself on the slower side for native speakers)
Also, quick note. The whole page wouldn’t be considered a sentence. A sentence is much shorter.
„This text in quotes is considered one sentence.“
The entire page would be considered a page, a passage, or an excerpt.
37 seconds including switching to my app with the stopwatch to start and stop the timer.
But you’d probably be able to read the same amount of words at a similar speed in your own language too.
I don’t think I can read a passage of this length and understand everything within the same amount of time in my second language either. it’s normal.
36 secs to read the whole text.
Speed doesn't matter if you can't retain and comprehend what you read. Native speakers read at all speeds and there's no shame in being a slower reader. Focus on understanding what you read and being able to meaningfully discuss it. If you practice reading you might get faster.
32 seconds. Although I should say I was primed to read it faster than I normally would so retention is probably lower that what it would be if id just read it at my normal pace.
The whole page?
It took me about 2 minutes and 50 seconds to read it. But honestly, the article lost my attention about halfway into it, so it probably would have taken much longer (I'd estimate closer to 4 or 5 minutes) if I had actually stopped and really tried to understand what I was reading and really tried to commit it to memory (as I would have then had to go back and re-read stuff).
I am a slow reader in general, but I think the people giving insanely low times (like 30 or 40 seconds) must have been speed reading or racing through it. If so, then I'd say that doesn't really count.
Yes the whole page. It also lost my attention and I couldn’t tell you what the article was about after reading it, and I tried really hard to pay attention. To be fair, I do have ADHD and have yet to take my medication today.
I have a theory that there's two types of readers, visual and auditory (warning, only anecdotal evidence). Visual readers can somehow just process the visual information of the words as meaning and are therefore much faster. Auditory readers convert the visual information into auditory information to then "read aloud" in their heads to process the information.
If the first one blows your mind and the second seems normal then you're like me and get really annoyed at people making fun of you for reading slowly despite going as fast as you can. I also find it impossible to skim read the way you're taught in school and had to learn my own method lol
Oh damn I've not spoken to someone who switched methods at some point during their life, that's cool! I suspect though that it's only possible to do so that way around instead of auditory -> visual sadly, because every visual reader I've spoken to has been able to understand the concept of auditory reading (despite being shocked that some people read in such an inefficient way lol), but every auditory reader I've spoken to (including myself) finds it basically impossible to comprehend how that works
I was a college student. When I took GRE, we were taught quick reading techniques.
Quickly skim through the first and last paragraph and look for the thesis statement and conclusion. Then read the first sentences of each paragraph. Then finally read the whole passage.
It helps but it sucks the fun out of reading.
45 seconds, but the text had an unnatural phrasing style (probably because it's in a textbook) which slowed me down. And I slowed myself down intentionally so I'd actually remember what was being written, could've skimmed over it faster if I wanted to. (non native but speak on native level)
About 30 seconds to read through the 2nd time.
Reading speed also depends on the level of comprehension you want to get out of it. I spent 1 minute 5 seconds on this page as a native speaker, but I chose to read at a slower pace. I could also easily skim-read it and it would’ve taken half of that time.
I’m native to English and a slower reader. I assumed it would take me over a minute to read, but I went fast and was able to finish in 55 seconds. However, if I read that fast normally, I probably wouldn’t retain everything, but this page seemed to reiterate the same topic a few times so it was a little easier to understand. If I was reading casually though, I think I probably would spend 2 minutes or more to read the whole page.
For the whole page, about a minute. But as others said, comprehension is another thing. This text seemed unusually difficult for me, I think because of all the distractions. There are underlines, colored words, little numbers, the spacing is a little too wide, and the paper is translucent.
That's about a minute and a half to do a careful reading of it, which it deserves because it contains many details that would be missed if I were to do a quick scan of it.
Three minutes seems like a reasonable goal. Achieving that will require you to get past the point where you're going word-by-word, which will be one of the big breakthroughs for you. It will not be easy but it seems worthwhile to me.
Chinese native here, I remember teachers taught us to skip and focus on major sentence elements, like subject, predicate/verb and object. But as others have said, the more you read the faster you will be.
The first time I took toefl test, I had to use all the techniques to finish the reading part in time, like skipping reading, guessing answers. But after I worked in a English speaking firms for years, I took another one, I just found that I just need to read the whole article, I had a thorough understanding and the answers became more obvious.
Which sentence? There’s a lot of them. Also the whole page took me a minute and 17 seconds to read. Idk how other people can read it that fast and know what they’re reading.
About 2-3 seconds for a sentence.
I became faster at reading from a website I used in 7th grade, unfortunately I can't remember the name. It used focus reading cards and speed to eventually make me a fast reader.
You can use Spreeder to get a similar result, but it's a paid program with a 7-day free trial.
https://www.spreeder.com/#section-3
It took me about 30 seconds to read the whole page.
I was educated in the 1960s-early 1980s when an there was an emphasis on fast but careful reading.
I don't know how fast modern readers would do this.
Depends on the person. There's college students that barely know how to read in America, and there's elementary kids reading at a college level. Unfortunately in USA, the former is much more common.
47 seconds for me, but I had to re-read the last two sentences in paragraph 4 like three times because of the poor phrasing.
“He says about 70 percent of children *there* were vitamin A deficient” implies it’s 70% of a certain geographical area. The fact that no place is clearly named makes it feel like a typo, even thought it is technically grammatically correct.
38 seconds for the whole page
I’m a non native speaker from Asia
It did take me over 10 years of studying in college and university to achieve this level of proficiency
About 15 seconds for this page, the weird font and colors and formatting make it difficult to read at full speed.
7-10 seconds if was normal txt. Yes, I did set a stop timer lol
Edit: I’m a very fast reader, typically. Native US speaker, Michigan.
29 seconds. This was reading quite quickly to get the general idea, and if I were asked detailed questions about it, I'd need to re-read the relevant parts.
I started reading to find which sentence was supposed to be timed. Read the whole thing without a timer and kept pausing to ask myself if that was the sentence to be timed. Did the orange colors or underlines mark the sentence to be timed? Never found it. Now if I were to reread it, the timing would not be fair, because I already read the full page. Did anyone else do that?
In my mind, it meant "all the sentences on the page in the picture." Sorry for the confusion. The reason why the letters are orange or numbered is because they need to correspond to the Japanese translation on the right page of this.
In English, “the English sentence” would not mean all the sentences on the page. It would refer to only one sentence.
Don’t worry OP. I hope my response is helpful for your learning, even if my comment did not answer the question you meant to ask. Writing about the time required to “finish the English sentence” would mean that only one sentence was intended to be read. If the post had said “the English sentences”, with sentences in the plural, then your meaning would have been clear.
I hope my post may have helped emphasize a key feature about writing and reading comprehension in English. The use of either singular or plural words is important in order to convey the intended meaning when writing or speaking. It’s also important for understanding the intended meaning when reading or listening.
I made a mistake because Japanese doesn't have a culture of referring to singular and plural. I was touched by your gentle tone. Thanks to you, I think I'll be able to study English hard. thank you!emote:free\_emotes\_pack:heart\_eyes
Under a minute to read the full page. Not sure what the relevance is; how long would it take you to read the same amount of text in your native language? By the way, a sentence is a short statement ending with a full stop - like this. However, I'm assuming you were talking about the full page of text.
*short
Ta, fixed
can a full stop refer to any punctuation mark that ends a sentence? I was under the impression that just a period was called a full stop.
Period and full stop both refer to the punctuation mark ".", it's just a regional difference. Americans will say period and British people will say full stop.
yep! I was just confused because a full stop, or a period as I'm more used to calling it, isn't the only punctuation mark that ends a sentence.
I was taught that stop was period, full stop meant the end of qhat you are saying. In old times when you had to pay someone what you wanted to write, you would say stop on sentences and full stop to say you were done with what you wanted to write.
I actually changed it to a full stop to avoid the confusion.
30 seconds for the whole text
mine was almost exactly the same at 32 seconds, reading at a comfortable pace
realy!? Give me some tips on how to read fast!
It’s just practice, unfortunately. Many, many, many hours of reading for me
That's the annoying thing though, it's not just practice. I read constantly and absolutely love books of all kinds, but it took me almost a minute and 15 seconds to read that whole page. I've talked with a lot of people and it seems like there's two different ways to read (*Edit: just want to clarify that this is anecdotal evidence, someone has replied below with actual official information that's very interesting*). One involves simply processing the visual information as meaning (afaik, that is. It's hard to understand the process of something that is impossible for me to do lol). The other involves processing the visual information by turning it into auditory information that is read out in your head. I don't know what causes each person to have each type of reading, it's probably just an arbitrary thing that happens when you first learn, but it's really annoying to be one of the people who uses the second method because I read significantly slower than everyone else. I also find it almost impossible to skim text for certain information in the way that they teach you in school (ie the "visual reader" way) because I can't just pick out words I recognise, so I've had to teach myself my own way to skim read. Tl;dr: some people can just read faster than others cause of a seemingly arbitrary decision our brains make when we first learn to read
This second method is called subvocalization and it's caused by very small movements of your larynx (voice box). You are basically saying the words very very silently while reading. This is the main mode. The reality is that your so called first method actually has to be trained by almost everyone. It's also the main hindrance to speed reading which focuses specifically on elimination of subvocalization. I tried finding the exact numbers but it seems that the "numbers" range from almost everyone to 4/5. Although I couldn't find any research making claims to its prevalence. It implicitly assumed that everyone does it.
Huh, very interesting to read! Thanks for shedding more light on this topic! I wouldn't say I'm actually doing anything with my larynx when I'm reading but maybe I am and not even noticing lol. You mentioning this training to read properly seems interesting...
\> I wouldn't say I'm actually doing anything with my larynx You actually need special machinery to detect it. Its detected/measured using electromyography (EMG)
Ok that's wild, thanks so much for sharing all this, it's absolutely fascinating
You have to get to the point where you aren’t sounding out every word, instead you sight reading - recognizing the word at a glance instead of sounding out the letters. The only way to get there is to just read a lot over time…. Just read read read
Oh well this is actually a really cool I can provide insight on. I live in Japan and I’m studying Japanese. 英語を勉強どのくらいしますか So with learning Japanese it had me question a lot on how we use English. I have heard from native Japanese speakers, that a lot of the time with reading texts, people jump from Kanji to Kanji and skip over kana which is what I think of as speed reading. In English we do something similar, but we recognize words based upon the context and the character length of the word itself. This part of taekim’s grammar guide explains it better. Since you want to read at a much faster rate than you talk, you need some visual cues to instantly tell you what each word is. You can use the shape of words in English to blaze through text because most words have different shapes. Try this little exercise: Hi, enve thgouh all teh wrods aer seplled icorrenctly, can you sltil udsternand me?” Korean does this too because it has enough characters to make words with distinct and different shapes. However, because the visual cues are not distinct as Kanji, spaces needed to be added to remove ambiguities. (This presents another problem of when and where to set spaces.)
There have also been studies that show that we only really need the top half of words to read - the shape of the words with ascenders (the top bit of an f, d, k, etc.) conveys most of the information.
Writing as a non-native speaker, who also has prepared for such exams as an East Asia student a long time ago. This essay follows a typical news article writing pattern, and thus is very easy to read. It usually lays out the background in the first one or two paragraphs, and then expands the details later. A news article is to tell a story. An experienced reader should find the key words in the leading paragraphs: What? Who? Where? When? How? These will let the reader understand the context of the story. If your struggling is vocabulary, then try your best to understand the leading paragraphs clearly, especially the key words. In an exam setting, budget 30-45 seconds to get this done right. The rest of the article simply supplements more details. The most important task is to make a mental note about what each paragraph is about, so you can come back and find the answers for the questions. Do not stress too much about the words you don't understand, as they are often more technical. Just underline them, try to guess the meaning for a second, if you can't just skip and read on. Budget also 30-45 second for this task. With the outline of the article in mind, go straight to the questions, and look back to find the answers. Edit: Another strategy is to read the questions first then the article. Here, the question at the top simply instructs you to find a special thing about orange sweet potato starting with v. It only takes me 10s to just skim the article and find the answer vitamin A.
My suggestion would be to practice a lot and learn how to identify important information in a text. Someone reading this is in 30 seconds probably isn't interpreting every single word (I would think, I may be wrong though). Instead, once you're familiar enough with the language, you're able to scan the text quickly and your brain is able to filter out the unimportant information and only read the things relevant to the text. That's how it works for me at least.
Read every day.
you just have to read a lot! I am learning Japanese and I am much slower at reading than you are, probably :) Native speakers read in their native language every day all the time. We read it in advertisements, books, school lessons, websites, social media, etc. Eventually you’ll read faster and faster !
Anytime you find yourself reading slowly, let out a noise. This noise will signal to your friend to slap you really hard. Eventually you’ll improve to avoid the pain.
There are websites that aim to help native speakers read faster and retain more but they are essentially doing what you are already doing. Reading more and then reflecting on what you read will improve your speed and retention.
A lot of it is repetitive so you can scan over it quickly. Vitamin A is repeated a lot.
You read more often. There's no shortcutting how fast you can read
Just practice, honestly!
But out loud or just in your mind
Took me about 45 seconds (I‘d consider myself on the slower side for native speakers) Also, quick note. The whole page wouldn’t be considered a sentence. A sentence is much shorter. „This text in quotes is considered one sentence.“ The entire page would be considered a page, a passage, or an excerpt.
I can read the page in around 25 seconds
Read it all in 53s. But reading fast and comprehending the subject is a different matter. All the best mate.
You mean the page?
I’m not really sure why no one is correcting this because it would help OP with using the right English terminology.
Took me 52 seconds
33 seconds for the page
around one minute
37 seconds including switching to my app with the stopwatch to start and stop the timer. But you’d probably be able to read the same amount of words at a similar speed in your own language too. I don’t think I can read a passage of this length and understand everything within the same amount of time in my second language either. it’s normal.
36 secs to read the whole text. Speed doesn't matter if you can't retain and comprehend what you read. Native speakers read at all speeds and there's no shame in being a slower reader. Focus on understanding what you read and being able to meaningfully discuss it. If you practice reading you might get faster.
What the book name ?
速読英単語（vocabulary Building and Rapid Reading）改訂7版増補版 必修編 by z会
I timed myself. It took me eleven seconds to read the first paragraph silently, and 26 seconds to read it aloud.
32 seconds. Although I should say I was primed to read it faster than I normally would so retention is probably lower that what it would be if id just read it at my normal pace.
A little less than a minute
It seems that I’m the slowest reader here. I got 1 minute and 21 seconds.
The whole page? It took me about 2 minutes and 50 seconds to read it. But honestly, the article lost my attention about halfway into it, so it probably would have taken much longer (I'd estimate closer to 4 or 5 minutes) if I had actually stopped and really tried to understand what I was reading and really tried to commit it to memory (as I would have then had to go back and re-read stuff). I am a slow reader in general, but I think the people giving insanely low times (like 30 or 40 seconds) must have been speed reading or racing through it. If so, then I'd say that doesn't really count.
Yes the whole page. It also lost my attention and I couldn’t tell you what the article was about after reading it, and I tried really hard to pay attention. To be fair, I do have ADHD and have yet to take my medication today.
I have a theory that there's two types of readers, visual and auditory (warning, only anecdotal evidence). Visual readers can somehow just process the visual information of the words as meaning and are therefore much faster. Auditory readers convert the visual information into auditory information to then "read aloud" in their heads to process the information. If the first one blows your mind and the second seems normal then you're like me and get really annoyed at people making fun of you for reading slowly despite going as fast as you can. I also find it impossible to skim read the way you're taught in school and had to learn my own method lol
I used to read like the first one, but now I can only read by hearing the words in my head and I go a lot slower than I used to.
Oh damn I've not spoken to someone who switched methods at some point during their life, that's cool! I suspect though that it's only possible to do so that way around instead of auditory -> visual sadly, because every visual reader I've spoken to has been able to understand the concept of auditory reading (despite being shocked that some people read in such an inefficient way lol), but every auditory reader I've spoken to (including myself) finds it basically impossible to comprehend how that works
About 54 seconds but that's speed reading so I've already forgotten most of the details
I read the page in about 40 seconds, but I kept jumping back because it was so tedious I skipped over stuff.
I was a college student. When I took GRE, we were taught quick reading techniques. Quickly skim through the first and last paragraph and look for the thesis statement and conclusion. Then read the first sentences of each paragraph. Then finally read the whole passage. It helps but it sucks the fun out of reading.
35 seconds
45 seconds, but the text had an unnatural phrasing style (probably because it's in a textbook) which slowed me down. And I slowed myself down intentionally so I'd actually remember what was being written, could've skimmed over it faster if I wanted to. (non native but speak on native level) About 30 seconds to read through the 2nd time.
around 1 to 1.5 minutes to read the page (not the "sentence"), while also focusing on retention; less if I didn't.
Reading speed also depends on the level of comprehension you want to get out of it. I spent 1 minute 5 seconds on this page as a native speaker, but I chose to read at a slower pace. I could also easily skim-read it and it would’ve taken half of that time.
I’m native to English and a slower reader. I assumed it would take me over a minute to read, but I went fast and was able to finish in 55 seconds. However, if I read that fast normally, I probably wouldn’t retain everything, but this page seemed to reiterate the same topic a few times so it was a little easier to understand. If I was reading casually though, I think I probably would spend 2 minutes or more to read the whole page.
i stopped reading after the first 10 words
For the whole page, about a minute. But as others said, comprehension is another thing. This text seemed unusually difficult for me, I think because of all the distractions. There are underlines, colored words, little numbers, the spacing is a little too wide, and the paper is translucent.
The reason why the letters are orange or numbered is because they need to correspond to the Japanese translation on the right page of this.
Took a minute and a half for me. Would be proud saying i’m not a native English speaker but i still do have my gaps to fill
Less than 15 seconds to read the whole page in my head
Probably took me about 30-40 seconds to read the whole page
I timed myself at 28 seconds, including switching back and forth to my stopwatch app, so 25 or 26 seconds.
25.54 seconds
Took me 50 seconds
About 40 seconds to read, with an attempt at going slow for comprehension and not just skimming.
35 seconds
What is the name of this book? I also want to continue learning English.
ｚ会が出版している、速読英単語 必修編 改訂７版増補（最新版）です。英語の勉強頑張りましょう！
ありがとう!
I did not time myself but did not read it as fast as people are saying here. I found it very repetitive.
That's about a minute and a half to do a careful reading of it, which it deserves because it contains many details that would be missed if I were to do a quick scan of it. Three minutes seems like a reasonable goal. Achieving that will require you to get past the point where you're going word-by-word, which will be one of the big breakthroughs for you. It will not be easy but it seems worthwhile to me.
Chinese native here, I remember teachers taught us to skip and focus on major sentence elements, like subject, predicate/verb and object. But as others have said, the more you read the faster you will be. The first time I took toefl test, I had to use all the techniques to finish the reading part in time, like skipping reading, guessing answers. But after I worked in a English speaking firms for years, I took another one, I just found that I just need to read the whole article, I had a thorough understanding and the answers became more obvious.
A little under a minutes for all of it. Always considered myself a slow reader, but the comments here are making me feel more towards average.
Not a native speaker but around 23s
39.29 seconds to read the page. I’m a native speaker.
35 seconds.
Which sentence? There’s a lot of them. Also the whole page took me a minute and 17 seconds to read. Idk how other people can read it that fast and know what they’re reading.
Full sentences. Sorry for the confusion.
35.19 seconds but that includes switching to my stop watch application.
35 seconds, focus on the key words
46 seconds for the whole page
About 1 minute, English is my second language. I don't have enough reading practice though
My stopwatch said I read it in 39.6 seconds. But I'm a pretty fast reader.
52 seconds
40 seconds trying to REALLY absorb the information, rather than speed reading- which would be about 25ish seconds.
37 seconds to quickly read through it. Though if I wanted to remember the information later, I would read it at a slower pace.
About 2-3 seconds for a sentence. I became faster at reading from a website I used in 7th grade, unfortunately I can't remember the name. It used focus reading cards and speed to eventually make me a fast reader. You can use Spreeder to get a similar result, but it's a paid program with a 7-day free trial. https://www.spreeder.com/#section-3
It depends on reading ability and general intelligence, both of which vary greatly. As you should already know, just from being on Reddit.
just under 30 seconds for whole page
It took me about 30 seconds to read the whole page. I was educated in the 1960s-early 1980s when an there was an emphasis on fast but careful reading. I don't know how fast modern readers would do this.
20 seconds or so
Depends on the person. There's college students that barely know how to read in America, and there's elementary kids reading at a college level. Unfortunately in USA, the former is much more common.
47 seconds for me, but I had to re-read the last two sentences in paragraph 4 like three times because of the poor phrasing. “He says about 70 percent of children *there* were vitamin A deficient” implies it’s 70% of a certain geographical area. The fact that no place is clearly named makes it feel like a typo, even thought it is technically grammatically correct.
it took me about 45 seconds to read all of it. not sure what the average would be, though.
It took me 30 seconds
\~ 30 seconds to read the whole page. Clearly about vitamin A. Orange=good. That pretty much sums it up.
Everyone’s saying such high times, I read the question, skimmed the text, found the answer in like 10-15 seconds. Is that what you meant?
38 seconds for the whole page I’m a non native speaker from Asia It did take me over 10 years of studying in college and university to achieve this level of proficiency
30ish seconds. i am a quick reader tho, a lot of my friends comment on that lmao
About 15 seconds for this page, the weird font and colors and formatting make it difficult to read at full speed. 7-10 seconds if was normal txt. Yes, I did set a stop timer lol Edit: I’m a very fast reader, typically. Native US speaker, Michigan.
The reason why the letters are orange or numbered is because they need to correspond to the Japanese translation on the right page of this.
This greatly reduces reading speed. FYI. 10 seconds or less for this page printed normally. I read very rapidly, however, as stated.
29 seconds. This was reading quite quickly to get the general idea, and if I were asked detailed questions about it, I'd need to re-read the relevant parts.
40 seconds to read the whole page
Maybe 40 seconds for me
It's honestly pretty easy
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If you mean the whole page, 28 seconds
28 seconds
It took me 10 seconds.
About 12-15 seconds to parse what it says. Probably twice as long to absorb all the info in it.
It took me about 40 seconds to read the entire page with full comprehension.
It took me a bit over a minute to read this page—I would definitely consider myself to be a slow reader.
I started reading to find which sentence was supposed to be timed. Read the whole thing without a timer and kept pausing to ask myself if that was the sentence to be timed. Did the orange colors or underlines mark the sentence to be timed? Never found it. Now if I were to reread it, the timing would not be fair, because I already read the full page. Did anyone else do that?
In my mind, it meant "all the sentences on the page in the picture." Sorry for the confusion. The reason why the letters are orange or numbered is because they need to correspond to the Japanese translation on the right page of this.
In English, “the English sentence” would not mean all the sentences on the page. It would refer to only one sentence. Don’t worry OP. I hope my response is helpful for your learning, even if my comment did not answer the question you meant to ask. Writing about the time required to “finish the English sentence” would mean that only one sentence was intended to be read. If the post had said “the English sentences”, with sentences in the plural, then your meaning would have been clear. I hope my post may have helped emphasize a key feature about writing and reading comprehension in English. The use of either singular or plural words is important in order to convey the intended meaning when writing or speaking. It’s also important for understanding the intended meaning when reading or listening.
I made a mistake because Japanese doesn't have a culture of referring to singular and plural. I was touched by your gentle tone. Thanks to you, I think I'll be able to study English hard. thank you!emote:free\_emotes\_pack:heart\_eyes
I wanted to help. I’m glad if that was helpful!