anyone a really fast reader?

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I was just wondering if any others were extremely fast readers - as in 2 - 4 times faster than your peers.

Depends on how interesting the book is.

I guess that I would qualify as a fast reader. I have been reading beyond (speed & content) my level ever since I was about 4 years old. Most novels of a few hundred pages I consume in a day or less. Other stuff, like textbooks, are slower. My college prof. thought that I would be wasting my time to take a speed reading course. This fast reading ability really helped me in college. In contrast, I know people who are slow readers and they did poorly in college, if they even finished. I wonder how much this relates to our primary school education in reading?

I can read stupid fast and also retain the info as I paraphrase it in my head.

I read very fast, reading to me is like looking at a picture. I don't have an internal voice when I read.

I read very quickly. My family banned me from playing "You Don't Know Jack" with them, because I would answer the questions before they had finished reading them. I sometimes read a book a day. I think I also don't read with an internal voice, at least not all the time.

Yes, I read Enders Game books in about 3-4 hours I believe. That's with good comprehension.

I can read fast, however I have a strange problem where a lot of times reading fills my mind with so much mental imagery and sensation that I just end up putting the given book down feeling completely overwhelmed. And for some reason I read faster when im tired .

I read extremely slow. If I ever have to read out loud in school for something it'll take forever and all my friends make fun of me. I just think that I haven't had enough experience in reading to be fast. I hated reading as a kid and always got my mom to do it for me. Plus I've never actually read a book that was assigned in my life.

I wish I could read fast though.

I've always been hyperlexic and read exceedingly fast. As a child, I would finish chapter books at the same rate as my peers finished classroom primers (does anyone remember the orange books?). I think the ratio of my speed to their speed is about the same now, but I certainly read with much more comprehension than I did then (I know what all of the big words actually mean, as well as simply being able to read them).

I'm fairly average, maybe slow sometimes.

I read extremely fast, always have. I also started early, so maybe that helped. When I was six, I read All Things Bright and Beautiful in less than a day, and I do use a 'voice', if I'm understanding what you mean. If you mean a voice is 'hearing' the words in my head as I read, then yea. I do that.

I also read all the Harry Potter books in about two days. Yay for libraries!

I was a fast reader as well, and still am.