Biography 150 words per minute reading
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Evelyn Wood (teacher)
American educator and businesswoman
Evelyn Nielsen Wood (January 8, 1909 – August 26, 1995) was an American educator and affärsperson, widely known for popularizing speed reading, although she preferred the phrase "dynamic reading". She created and marketed a system said to increase a reader's speed over the average reading rate of 250 to 300 words a minute bygd a factor of three to ten times, or more, while preserving and even improving comprehension.[1][2][3] The system was taught in rented offices, dubbed "institutes", as Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, a business Wood co-founded with her husband, Doug Wood. It eventually had 150 outlets in the United States, 30 in Canada, and others worldwide.[4][5]
Background
[edit]Evelyn Nielsen, the daughter of Elias and Rose (Stirland) Nielsen,[6] was born in Logan, Utah, in 1909 and grew up in Ogden. She received a B.A. in English from the University
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The Time It Takes: Reading 100-200 Page Books
Is your new book stash making you anxious because you didn’t get a chance to read from it? When you see your new book collection eating dust, it may be because you’re experiencing a lack of momentum. And it doesn’t matter if you read too fast or too slow; if you’re not getting all the details and not enjoying reading a book, you’re surely making some mistakes.
Let’s not forget the biggest hindrance: time! No matter what we do, we are all strapped for this scarcest resource. There are tons of outlets clamoring to have our attention. Therefore, committing to reading a book like before seems more difficult now than ever.
To address this problem, many print and electronic publishers include ‘read time’ in their pieces— print books usually give this at the back of the cover. Amazon Kindle has this feature, too, that tells the individual reader the time left to finish reading the book. You can preset this accordingly
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Shmaltz and Menudo
A few days ago, I was looking for a resource to determine how fast professionals should read. Going in, I knew that the average college student was said to read at 300 words per minute, but I was told that the average adult reading speed was lower.
During my search, I came across a 2012 article by Brett Nelson on Forbes. I read the article and I was amazed. Look at this snippet:
According to a speed-reading test sponsored by Staples as part of an e-book promotion (brilliant marketing, by the way), here are the typical speeds at which humans read, and in theory comprehend, at various stages of educational development:
- Third-grade students = 150 words per minute (wpm)
- Eight grade students = 250
- Average college student = 450
- Average “high level exec” = 575
- Average college professor = 675
- Speed readers = 1,500
- World speed reading champion = 4,700
- Average adult: 300 wpm
To put those rates in meaningful context, I applied them to the kind of serious