Test your reading speed

2023-02-25

Cimkék: learning English, practice, research, self study, vocabulary expansion

If you look at the title line of this post it’s quite obvious what “wpm” stands for. If your reading speed is 250 wpm it means you can read 250 words per minute. Is 250 wpm a high reading speed?

According to the research that was based on the analysis of 190 studies and close to 20,000 participants, the answer to the question above depends on at least four factors:

the language;
whether you test your silent or oral reading speed;
whether what you read is fiction or non-fiction;
and your age, of course.

Once you know your reading speed you can estimate how many hours it would take you to finish an average-length novel. But what is the average length of a novel?

If you want to read more about the study above,

if you want to know what the average book length is,

and if you want to test your reading speed (it’s not about reading speed only but also about processing what you read)

click on the links below:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0749596X19300786

https://prowritingaid.com/average-book-length