Speed Reading Facts
- The average person in business reads no faster than people did 100 years ago.
- The average reading speed is 200 to 250 words a minute in non-technical material roughly 2 minutes per page. If you doubt this, test your reading speed - there is a reading speed test elsewhere in this site.
- In technical material, the average reading rate is approx 50 to 75 words a minute roughly 5 to 6 minutes per page.
- Total information is doubling every 9 months.
- Therefore we have to process information faster and faster just to maintain our existing knowledge level.
- 500 000 new titles are published each year in the English language alone.
- However, the average American college graduate only reads 5 books in his/her post-college lifetime.
- We therefore end up knowing more and more about less, and less and less about just about everything else.