705 wpm with a comprehension of 100%.

383 wpm with comprehension of 82%.

Interesting, so far all of us are quite a bit above the average of 200 wpm and 60% comprehension.

438 wpm with a comprehension of 91%.

...477 words with the comprehension rate of 91%. English isn’t my first language, so I had to re-read some of the stuff to understand what I was reading (I’m not good with numbers, either). Normally when reading I skip over stuff way more!

Well, I feel slow…

The test, though, tested memorization (short-term memory, at that) rather than comprehension!

“You read 893 words per minute. Your comprehension is 91%.”

English isn’t my native language so I read Finnish faster. I’ve been using some speed reading techniques for maybe a year now.

I took the test from the first web site, on an iPad, in the bathtub.

but someone in the room was listening to Rod Stewart and I couldn’t focus. :-(

I did a little googling about speed reading, and from what I’ve found so far, it appears that attempts to read faster than about 300 wpm usually come at a great cost in comprehension (50%), and that you can’t get rid of subvocalization or use fewer eye fixations—or rather, you can, but then you’re not reading, and that’s why speed readers retain so little of what they read. 

Reading rate: Research vs. teaching by Barbara McLay

Speed reading: Reading between the lies by Michael Schmitz

Slow down: Speed reading is bunk, studies say by Corey Binns

If anyone knows of any more information about this, I’d love to hear it. These are typical of what I’ve found so far.