Reading - do you read fast, slow, average?

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How fast do you read?
very fast 36%  36%  [ 47 ]
faster than average 29%  29%  [ 38 ]
average (same as spoken word) 12%  12%  [ 16 ]
slow 22%  22%  [ 28 ]
Total votes : 129

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10 Dec 2008, 2:16 pm

I read slow.



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10 Dec 2008, 2:19 pm

I read faster than normal but really only because I took a study skills class that focused on it.


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10 Dec 2008, 2:21 pm

I'm a very fast reader as well.


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10 Dec 2008, 2:38 pm

I read very slowly.
Just dumb like that.



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10 Dec 2008, 2:40 pm

I read very quickly. My mother and girlfriend have both accused me of skim-reading when watching me read a book/article or read the text of video games I'm playing, then seem surprised when they quiz me about what it said and I can tell them accurately. With the games, my g/f will say "hey, I wanna read that!" 'cause I didn't realize that she can't read that fast. I kinda take in whole sentences in a gulp rather than individual words.


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10 Dec 2008, 2:41 pm

NocturnalQuilter wrote:
I read very slowly.
Just dumb like that.


:o ! I thought you weren't supposed to use the internet!



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10 Dec 2008, 2:43 pm

Tails wrote:
I read very quickly. My mother and girlfriend have both accused me of skim-reading when watching me read a book/article or read the text of video games I'm playing, then seem surprised when they quiz me about what it said and I can tell them accurately. With the games, my g/f will say "hey, I wanna read that!" 'cause I didn't realize that she can't read that fast. I kinda take in whole sentences in a gulp rather than individual words.


OMG. I just realized that too. My parents complain about that whenever we are reading something on the computer, tv, or video games.

But when it comes to video with captions (like english captions for foreign language videos), I get lost quickly.



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10 Dec 2008, 2:51 pm

I'm the same, My dad constantly has go at me when I'm doing something on the computer for him and I read what the computer tells me before him because I've skimmed and picked up the important stuff.

I think it's a case of so many writings using too many words.

I have a hard time picturing stuff, I either do or doing, describing everysingle detail of a scene is not going to help me see it any more, it just bores me.

Or if I've never see it before and know nothing about the subject (like martial arts I know nothing about it, so I'm just going to skim the scene, Just "they fought, so and so lost, he hurt his arm in the fight" is about all I need to know from the scene.) I can't read it in fiction, it just doesn't work for me.



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10 Dec 2008, 2:55 pm

I don't like fiction that much. My teacher was going to sign me up for gifted english because I said I liked to read. Later I refined it and said that I only like to read non-fiction.
I've been able to read a few fiction books, such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Animal Farm. (However, I cannot remember which character did what, I just remember it happened.)



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10 Dec 2008, 4:01 pm

I used to read incredibly quickly when I was a child. I've always been short sighted, but I took my glasses off to read, because it was easier. Now I'm so short sighted I need to wear my glasses to read, and it slows me down - I can't focus in the same way. Also, of course, it totally depends on the reading matter. In two hours, I can read a 200-page novel, or 20 pages of a very dense text book, full of new vocabulary and concepts, and pages that are three times the size of pages in novels. So it's really hard to go by pages.

That link to the reading genius test doesn't work for me. Is it a link that only works in the US?



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10 Dec 2008, 4:10 pm

I think that some learn to read fast in order to shorten the time it takes to get new information into our minds, It only means we're impatient, not smarter than others. I read extremely fast with excellent comprehension and read constantly, 2 or 3 books per day but my brother is way smarter than I am and he is a very slow and methodical reader with several degrees.
I left school in the seventh grade.
I don't think the reading speed is actually indicative of anything significant with respect to AS.


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10 Dec 2008, 4:16 pm

My reading aloud is about average but I read much faster in my head.


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23 Dec 2008, 2:37 pm

I have taken two tests in my life that test reading speed and comprehension; one of them was out of a college textbook, and another was some online test. And in both cases, I came out at almost precisely at the numbers that are considered 'average'



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23 Dec 2008, 3:27 pm

it varied considerably for me depending on how intense my fugues are and how "autie-internal" i am on any given day. But i read a lot and chew up all sorts of books. love reading. some days when i worry a lot, i just see words and read whole pages and nothing sinks in. other days i read really fast.

But like a true AS person...i only ever read what I want to read..... :D



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23 Dec 2008, 4:56 pm

Another speed reader here.


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23 Dec 2008, 5:01 pm

I read faster than average.It's probably a result of reading so much every day that I've simply
acquired the ability to take in more words in less time.


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