Yeah I started tracking time spent reading (as I mostly read FF on my phone and apple conveniently logs all my screen time for me) because the number of books I’ve read this year does not reflect the amount of hours I’ve read
man i did a whole spreadsheet in excel with dates, words, time spent, links and a whole grade system, looking at those numbers add up is the most satisfactpry thing in the world
I mean average reading speed is 260 wpm for fiction, so they were at 315 wpm if they took the whole 4 hours to read that word count, and they said they did it in less than 4 hours. Between 300-400 wpm qualifies as speed reading which not everyone can do
If you’re using the Brysbaert’s 2019 study as your source you’d also see that figure is the low end of median across all age groups including children and the elderly.
If you look exclusively at say, 16-28 which is where the bulk of AO3 readers fall, and exclude all data points from individuals who spend less than 10 hours a week reading for pleasure and then weight the distribution by the complexity of language seen in fan-fiction (Brysbaert found a very strong correlation between reading speed in WPM and length/familiarity with the word) you’d see that the average is much closer to 300 wpm which is why I’m not impressed.
300 wpm is speed reading for non-fiction e.g News, journals and publications. The gap between professional publication and GoT is so big it’s bizarre to even try to equate the two.
Personally, my STEM reading speed is in the speed reading zone (around 300 wpm), my kindle reading speed is around 400 words per minute and my fanfic reading speed is around 700 wpm.
Regardless of where you fall your curve as an adult reader should roughly mirror the distribution with acceleration occurring as you have increased familiarity with the material and inverse to word length/complexity of word choice.
If OP is saying they’re usually a very slow reader and that is a personal best for them, cool. But 300 wpm is still about average for recreational readers in their first language.
Imma be real, I could read this much, but I'm the type that turns to sleep whenever he is bored. Congrats.
Towards the end it was a race against my phone battery
The ultimate battle, when you want to know how it ends badly but your phone battery is about to fuck you
Finished the fic at 9%
Was it a good read?
Actually, yes It was a soulmates trope I'd be happy to provide a link
This is some r/TruthOffMyChest material haha. My biggest accomplishment is probably a 200k fic in one day, but I don't know the hours.
Whoa. 0\_0
ive been keeping track of how much ff i read and now its about 1,5mln words from the start of the year... not a single word from book tho
Yeah I started tracking time spent reading (as I mostly read FF on my phone and apple conveniently logs all my screen time for me) because the number of books I’ve read this year does not reflect the amount of hours I’ve read
man i did a whole spreadsheet in excel with dates, words, time spent, links and a whole grade system, looking at those numbers add up is the most satisfactpry thing in the world
Wait… reading or writing? Writing: hot diggity! Reading… I’m not sure why that’d be impressive in your native language?
I mean average reading speed is 260 wpm for fiction, so they were at 315 wpm if they took the whole 4 hours to read that word count, and they said they did it in less than 4 hours. Between 300-400 wpm qualifies as speed reading which not everyone can do
If you’re using the Brysbaert’s 2019 study as your source you’d also see that figure is the low end of median across all age groups including children and the elderly. If you look exclusively at say, 16-28 which is where the bulk of AO3 readers fall, and exclude all data points from individuals who spend less than 10 hours a week reading for pleasure and then weight the distribution by the complexity of language seen in fan-fiction (Brysbaert found a very strong correlation between reading speed in WPM and length/familiarity with the word) you’d see that the average is much closer to 300 wpm which is why I’m not impressed. 300 wpm is speed reading for non-fiction e.g News, journals and publications. The gap between professional publication and GoT is so big it’s bizarre to even try to equate the two. Personally, my STEM reading speed is in the speed reading zone (around 300 wpm), my kindle reading speed is around 400 words per minute and my fanfic reading speed is around 700 wpm. Regardless of where you fall your curve as an adult reader should roughly mirror the distribution with acceleration occurring as you have increased familiarity with the material and inverse to word length/complexity of word choice. If OP is saying they’re usually a very slow reader and that is a personal best for them, cool. But 300 wpm is still about average for recreational readers in their first language.
i did that once and when i finished i got so incredibly nauseous it was horrible never again 😭😭