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I signed up for the “Merrill Ream Speed Reading” course via ed2go and the lapl.org and I started today.

The first question was to write down what I thought my reading speed and comprehension should be:

initial reading rate guess
130 words per min?

percentage remember : 80%

I made up these numbers and I had absolutely no idea. I took the first test and woo-hoo! I was able to read the story in 3:20 which according to the graph meant I was reading 465 wpm!

Then I took the comprehension test…

50%

Okay.. so that makes my starting point 232 wpm.

My goal is to be able to read through books and scripts quickly. I’ve been listening to my kindle read books to me, but reading not-out-loud is SO much faster.

I look forward to mastering the different techniques, the first one is to not move my eyes around so much while reading.. so I’m working on that.

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