No one knows how he does it because Kim’s corpus callosum has been missing since birth. He’s a savant who has memorized over 9,600 books. The World Speed Reading Championship has a six-time winner, Anne Jones, who read at 4,200 wpm with a recorded comprehension at 67 percent. JFK’s rate was around 1,100 and he, himself, said it was his ability to skim for what he was interested in. Here are some other speed reading tidbits.US President John Kennedy reportedly read three major newspapers before his morning coffee cooled. It was a thing of beauty to listen to his evidence in court. Cattle auctioneers bark at around 250 wpm, and I once worked with a cop who spoke so fast that no one could understand him-probably blurting out about 300 or more. Most of us talk at about 150 wpm which, I read, is the optimal spacing for podcasting and audio books. Other stats I found compared reading speed to conversation cadence. Speed demons can go as high as 400 wpm, but there’s a distinct line where speed becomes counter-productive, and the ability to comprehend and retain those words drastically diminishes. That’s like a typical 12 point page spaced at 1.15 inches in 60 seconds. During my research for this Kill Zone piece, I sourced statistics that the average person reads at the speed of about 200 to 250 words per minute (wpm). Some folks naturally read faster than others. It was about Russia.” There’s a lot of truth in those lines because when writers read for research (and pleasure) they need to find that balance between speed, comprehension, and production. There’s a famous quip from Woody Allen that goes like this, “I took a course in speed reading.
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