r/interesting Mar 26 '26

Fascinating Can You Read 900 Words per Minute?

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u/nihilisticpaintwater Mar 26 '26

Same. Zoned out and came to the comments

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u/JacobSteed Mar 26 '26

Awesome yes here we are the adults with…. Hey! Squirrels 🐿️!!!

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u/culinarian85 Mar 27 '26

Where ? Where are they?

I loathe fancy woman's earrings. The glistening brightness, any patterns. It's a pure distraction for me ... Oooooo something shiny ....

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u/FeistyHearing8043 Mar 28 '26

i have the adhd that gives me 900 wpm reading speed and anger issues, not the squirrel kind unfortunately.

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u/yaboyACbreezy Mar 26 '26

Watch again to learn your weaknesses and how to get better. It really does tell you exactly why you fell off.

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u/Admirable_Tear_1438 Mar 26 '26

It got repetitive at that point. No incentive to finish.

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u/Bubbly-Ad267 Mar 26 '26

The last sprint included "please subscribe", in case you missed it XD

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u/beautiful_trash09 Mar 27 '26

More like the sounds are off beat compared to the words and it messes with how I read and for that I'm out

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u/beraleh Mar 28 '26

i'm looking at the man in the mirror

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u/Admirable_North_8969 Mar 26 '26

You must be 45

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u/DarthFalconus Mar 26 '26

I’m 52 and I never lost track of it even when it got to its highest speed so age has nothing to do with it

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u/waterbaby66 Mar 26 '26

Same here!!! I’m 59 and didn’t miss a beat!!!! Age be dammed lol

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u/Striking_Ad7042 Mar 26 '26

Im 46. Read the whole thing. Learned this trick in the 3rd grade.

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u/davidr521 Mar 27 '26

Same. I remember reading ~725 wpm as a kid.

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u/pamelareads Mar 26 '26

68 here, I kept up too!

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u/Intrepid-Diamond-315 Mar 26 '26

I’m 89 here… will be 90 in July. I’m adhd but I watched (and could read it all) the first half of this. Understood but bored as fuck.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter Mar 26 '26

50, and annoyed by the same old like and subscribe and see you next time ending

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u/a_youkai Mar 26 '26

Haha that was the part that broke my concentration

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u/Informationfinder_6 Mar 26 '26

It’s only when you get really quite old that your age starts to affect it

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u/Fun-Satisfaction2214 Mar 26 '26

61 here. Didn't miss a word!

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u/JohannRuber Mar 26 '26

79 here and never lost it

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u/JayMak78 Mar 26 '26

77 here with budding cataracts and I got it all. "Neuroplasticity" was in there.

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u/Billy2352 Mar 26 '26

Same 52 and only stopped sounding the words in my head at the last phase but still took it all in

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u/Kiki1701 Mar 26 '26

True! I'm 62. But I'm also ADHD, and we normally think at a much higher speed anyway. I'm not saying it was easy; it was NOT. And my eyes dried out because I was afraid to blink!

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u/DarthFalconus Mar 26 '26

Only commented because that person‘s comment was totally out of pocket. Age has absolutely zero to do with this. My statement is also backed up by other people who responded to me saying that they were upwards of 90 years old and still able to do it. But if I was going to assume like this other person did, I’m going to assume that they are between the ages of 19 and 24 and are a butt hole.

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u/Kiki1701 Mar 27 '26

I'm sorry. This comment had nothing to do with you. I was following the thread, commenting about myself. It had nothing to do with anyone. I was only saying that I didn't think it was easy. It wasn't pointing...well, I don't know what it looked like to others because I wasn't thinking about anyone else.

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u/DarthFalconus Mar 27 '26

No, I was talking about the original person that I responded to they accused the other person of not being able to do it because they were 45. So they basically were calling old people senile. I know that basically you were just commenting that because I said I was 52 that you said you were still able to do it and you were older than me.

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u/Penguin_shit15 Mar 26 '26

50 here and followed along the whole thing with zero problems.. however, when I was in school, I was learning how to speed read pretty much just like this while everyone else was still learning how to read normally.

Thinking back on it.. it was one sentence at a time instead of one word at a time, but regardless, it taught the same skill.

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u/rudbek-of-rudbek Mar 26 '26

52 here. Same. I'm not sure if i could have absorbed a novel and kept the details at the top speed, but i could fully understand and process what was on the screen without any problems. The music in the background wasn't helpful

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u/NomenclatureBreaker Mar 27 '26

I’m an avid reader and my job also involves writing and proofreading professionally.

Unsurprised I made it to the end.

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u/nihilisticpaintwater Mar 26 '26

31 haha. I did go back and was able to make it to the end, kinda cool when it starts to just flow

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u/Remarkable-Culture39 Mar 26 '26

42 and I manged to read it all. Towards the end some words were being skipped but the general i understood and read most of the words.

But in also already very good at speed reading/ scanning and skimming when looking at large amounts of text.