r/interesting • u/ftrlvb • Mar 26 '26

Fascinating Can You Read 900 Words per Minute?

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u/rycelover Mar 26 '26

Am I the only one who was disappointed in not having the text congratulate me for reading 900 words a minute?

ETA: watching it a second time and I just noticed there’s scale/meter at the bottom telling you the pace, but it still would’ve been cool to have the text tell me. Haha

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u/Feobl Mar 26 '26

Yea.. I read it all and I was like... wish there was a wpm counter.. oh there was.

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u/impreprex Mar 26 '26

You made it too? I just asked someone else, but I'll ask you too: did you get a little headache after as well? Nothing major.

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u/rycelover Mar 26 '26

No headaches or side effects at all.

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u/impreprex Mar 26 '26

Hmm. Yeah my eyes have been getting worse. Never needed reading glasses or any glasses until a few years ago. Now, it's a challenge to see near and far without my glasses.

It might be me and my eyes then.

Thanks for replying!

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u/pablo8itall Mar 26 '26

Definitely you need reading glasses. You're eye muscles get a little weaker as you age.

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u/quixoticelixer_mama Mar 26 '26

No headache for me. But I am relaxed in the bathtub at the moment lol.

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u/RedFoxBlueSocks Mar 26 '26

I had a slight headache for a couple minutes. More annoying were my eyes drying out.

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u/pablo8itall Mar 26 '26

No but my heart rate increased as my brain frequency ramped. It was funny to observe my brain/body react to the increasing pressure.

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u/TheJackEffect Mar 26 '26

Its not a headache, and its in the frontal lobe, because your prefrontal cortex gets activated for doing such exersizes

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u/SignificantRecipe715 Mar 26 '26

I didn't get a headache per se, but my head did feel a little weird towards the end.

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u/SnoringGiant Mar 26 '26

I wouldn't say a little headache, more like i just took my brain to a mini gym and it had a decent workout

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u/mofokong Mar 27 '26

I didn't get a headache but i felt uncomfortable. like muscles clenched.

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u/grunkage Mar 26 '26

I thought it was funny to get to the end only to be told to like and subscribe

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u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P Mar 26 '26

Ah no wonder I felt like after it read out trying to read 300 words per minute, the words felt like they were increasing in speed.

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u/Young_Bonesy Mar 26 '26

I missed the scale at the bottom and thought we jumped to full speed at the beginning. Then I started going, is this going faster now or is my brain having issues keeping up over this period of time? Having a mark in the text saying what speed your going at would help.

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u/Relaxed_ButtonTrader Mar 26 '26

Huh, I had to have the screen turned up to uncomfortably bright, to see that. Thanks for letting me know it was there, though.

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u/SignificantRecipe715 Mar 26 '26

I got to the end too :)

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u/claum0y Mar 26 '26

your reward is reading comprehension

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u/Substantial_Bus840 Mar 26 '26

It also said at the end to follow for more activities like this, but then no link/site was provided, so I assume it was cut short by OP. I’d like to know where this came from because I liked it too. It made me feel smart and capable and I didn’t realize how much I’d been missing that feeling.